Asrock's X48

ASROCK have a history of providing awful voltage options with their boards... they never overclock fantastically.

Anyone with any sense is not going to buy this board for a value-oriented system... if they wanted to do that they'd get the cheapest P35 they could and get something which has good features and overclocks like a demon.

This basically looks like a premium priced board with value build quality and overclocking features... and a horrible layout. Anyone who buys this thinking they will be getting a good deal simply for the sake of saving £30 over a much better performing and laid out Gigabyte or ASUS board needs their head checking.

Not a wise purchase imo.
 
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Munky1080 said:
Yeah, I agree with a lot of people here...Asrock make great boards for the price, but £139 is too much. The board I have is (was) their top of the line motherboard and it only set me back about £60 if I remember correctly (£78 delivered I think.) For me to choose them as an X48 solution I think they would have to be closer to £100-110.
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Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to produce an X48 board that cheaply if you look at the price that ASRock have to pay Intel for the chipset. If you think about it, the only real difference between a P35 board and an X38 or X48 board is the price of the chipset as the remaining components are pretty much the same. Intel chipsets tend to be quite pricey, which is why they always seem to be more expensive than NVidia or AMD boards.
 
Munky1080 said:
Yeah, I agree with a lot of people here...Asrock make great boards for the price, but £139 is too much. The board I have is (was) their top of the line motherboard and it only set me back about £60 if I remember correctly (£78 delivered I think.) For me to choose them as an X48 solution I think they would have to be closer to £100-110. Like I said about the P35 boards they made - some review sites have got their FSB up to 560+Mhz - these new Asrocks are no laughing matter.
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Have to agree,


Its not offering anything over the marginally priced DFI,GIGA,ASUS mobo's

Was excited about the mobo at say 75-85 ish.

Not at 139
 
How on earth can you expect to get an X48 board for 75 quid? You can't even pick up a used X38 at auction for under a ton.
 
I've yet to see a retail price tag, so I'll with-hold judgement til I do. Granted it does need to be a good £20-30 less than the DFI, just as the other cheap version has to be (the OcUK branded Chinese one). But even then, being £20-30 cheaper than the competition, and still keeping the quality we need is damn near impossible in the razor-thin margin world of consumer electronics.
 
I have built 30/40 sistems with cheap Asrock boards - prices between 30/40£ ( mostly Via and SIS chipsets) with vga onboard ,normally with Kingston value ram,and until today not a single one have failled to post from the very first boot:D

most reliable boards i have worked- of course they are not a very good overclockers,but they are not meant to be aniway

BTW i buy them directly from a portuguese distributor , INTRODUXI:)
 
WJA96 said:
Well, if it was £139 list then it would probably be cheaper retail, no? I think £80 is unrealistic given the price of the actual chipset.
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You're very wrong to think the cost of the chipset is the main reason for the price difference in motherboards. It is one of the factors, but by no means 'the' defining factor.

There are a lot of other factors that contribute more to the increased cost in high end motherboards - design, upgraded caps and circuitry, bundled software and accessories, BIOS development, aftersales support (to name a few) and of course, brand.

Now, looking at that list, ASRock can cut pretty much all of that out, and I don't think it would be unreasonable to hope they price this motherboard sub-£100. Obviously it's their choice, but to suceed, this has to be a very 'cheap' board.

As I explained in my previous post - it has quite a small market appeal. Most people looking at a Crossfire setup will want a better quality board.
 
It's up for pre-sale in Holland with stock expected this week. It's not much cheaper than the other X48 boards on that site, maybe 10-15 Euros.
 
Richie P said:
You're very wrong to think the cost of the chipset is the main reason for the price difference in motherboards. It is one of the factors, but by no means 'the' defining factor.

There are a lot of other factors that contribute more to the increased cost in high end motherboards - design, upgraded caps and circuitry, bundled software and accessories, BIOS development, aftersales support (to name a few) and of course, brand.

Now, looking at that list, ASRock can cut pretty much all of that out, and I don't think it would be unreasonable to hope they price this motherboard sub-£100. Obviously it's their choice, but to suceed, this has to be a very 'cheap' board.
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The ASRock P35 board is about £65, solid caps etc. The X48 is supposed to be £139 and the only difference I can see is the chipset and the expected profit margin.
 
i agree with easy, which is pretty unusual :D

as with the JW x48 mobo the pricing is too close to some established manufacturers such as DFI,Gigabyte to make a splash especially as the resale for this board will be poor as everybody knows Asrock to be on the budget side of the fence.

the layout IS ridiculous also.....acceptable on a budget board maybe but not at premium prices.
 
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