AMD Ryzen Motherboard Giveaway with ASRock

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Many thanks for the opportunity. It's been a while since I built a gaming PC so this is a great way to get back into the swing of things before Camelot Unchained goes live.
 
I'm ASRock fanboy & using ASRock H97 Pro4 (ATX) P2.00

Thanks ASrock & TomsHardware for the give-away. (I won Doom from TomsHardware)
 
Thanks for the giveaway! Been dragging a Phenom II 555BE along for a good few years now. I remember I broke one of the cpu pins trying to bend it back with a mechanical pencil. I had probably screwed up putting it in the socket and it wouldn't post. I was crazy stressed out. I ran to the hardware store and bought a couple small gauge copper wire hoping it would work. All of them were too big so I took some sandpaper to the smallest one until it did and shoved it in the corresponding hole in the socket after cutting it to size. Put the cpu on and it posted! I was stoked didn't have the money to buy a new cpu thought I would be stuck with my old k7. Then I was able to unlock the 2 hidden cores and overclock that sucker up to 3.4 on a hyper 212 with an extra fan. Been a real nice system but really showing its age with all the fancy new games coming out nowadays but im glad AMD has some teeth again. It's been a long stretch and I have hated intels since that crappy hp celeron my grandma bought lol. Good luck to all.

 
I too would like the opportunity to enter the contest but living in Canada prevents me from doing so.
If Guru3D can offer international contests how is it that Tom's can't?
Just asking.
Tom's is a great site.
 
Even if I don't get this particular board, I'll end up buying one in the nearish future. I was looking at this board because I am putting together an unRAID server to learn more about virtual machines (currently running on an old I7 system with half the available threads that I paid just under twice as much as a Ryzen build years ago). Ryzen CPU's a freakin' amazing for this...16 fast threads to share amongst your VMs. This board also has 10 sata ports...so plenty of ports to add drives for my VMs! The only thing more I'd want out of a Ryzen board are four full size x16 slots (hardware accelerated VMs require a video card per 3d accelerated VM)...and the ability to run them in 16x mode. My ultimate plan to test out is whether I can make one computer and share it across the house with small android boxes for clients at each of the desks.

Also running a FreeNAS server for the last 1.5 years using an ASRock Rack 8 core Avoton board. Not sure about their general consumer support, but their server grade support was GREAT (never, ever let go of William Lee...that dude is the shit!) I'd absolutely buy from these guys again.
 
Well, guess I had to join the forum at some point. This is as good a time as any after spending so much time here through the Ryzen launch.

I'm so overdue to build a PC (my non-working current desktop is around 7-8 years old). A free X370 board would help out a ton on scrounging up the money for my build.
 
sweet thanks for the chance to win parts for a new build. i could definitely use a new build my current one is quite old and needs a bit of an update. as its a phenom 2 x4 965, on msi 790gx-g65 with xfx radeon 4650 1gb and 4gb dual channel xms3 1600c9 ram.
 
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