So I had an ASRock 970 Extreme4 mainboard. I setup a Raid 0 array using two 1 TB HDDs. Blew up the board, replaced it with a cheap Asus M5A 78L-M board. Both of them were AM2/AM3/AM3+ boards.
Today I got a new board in, an MSI Z170A gaming M5 board. Other than the horribly non-intuitive BIOS...