ASrock boards

[Elrad]

Hey,

What do people think of ASrock boards? Im after a new board, iv been looking at the 970 extreme3 (because its cheap and looks good) or 990FX extreme 3. its a bit more cash.

What are the boards like in general? any good, was tring to see what the 970 is like but not many reveiws around.

Cheers

 

[Paracelsus]

Something I posted in a recent thread;

"I've used ASRock for years since the Athlon XP days and have always found them rock solid, great clockers (1.8ghz athlon to 2.7ghz on a £40 mobo lol) and innovative with features (939 dualsata2 had both AGP and PCI-E and could take an AM2 riser board for AM2 CPUs and DDR2 RAM - £45) while being cheap.

They were a spinoff of ASUS btw, now fully their own company I believe. "

 

[welshdragon]

I have had the same experience as Paracelsus. Bought a budget board for my last AMD rig and it impressed me a lot. Now on my i5 rig I went with the ASRock Z68 Extreme 4. Really happy with it. Overclocks well and does all I need. I've built a few pc's for people using them too and not had a faulty one.

Moved to ASRock after a bad experience with my old Asus board. Never again. But having said that, have had previous Asus boards which did well. Anyway go for it mate, I doubt you'll be dissapointed!

 

[Nightglow]

Nothing wrong with Asrock boards, have got four pc's all use Extreme 4 Gen 3 boards.
great boards, no complaint with them.

I still have 939 dualsata2 board still going strong, been retired, only light work now with Open Office.

 

[liamcrane]

Gonna treat myself to an extreme 3 gen 3 now after hearing positive things about asrock

 

[Trofeo]

I've been using my extreme 7 gen 3 a month or so, so far it's been fantastic reaching higher clock speeds & more stable overclocking than my previous board the asus p8p67 pro (first version) using all the same components psu ram cpu gfx card etc. I was a bit unsure about going for it as it's my first ever asrock board & their warranty is basically non existant in the uk it's back to the retailer for the first year 'n that's it so fingers crossed I won't have any problems down the line as I've said though initial impressions very good

 

[Purgatory]

I have an Asrock Fatal1ty Z68 Pro Gen3 intel Z68, fantastic board and not once caused any issues. Nothing more to say really apart from go out and grab one.

 

[ace-rimmer]

boards i dealt with back in the early 2000's were shocking, 80% of the RMA's were Asrock, think it was mostly down to the weird features they had.

a lot better now but then do they use via and sis chipsets anymore

 

[Trofeo]

Ye I had some via & sis **** around that time, just dropped dead without any warning a short while after the warranty ran out >_>

 

[scooby555t]

i bought a e4 gen3 z68 board swapped my gpu over to a 680 and the board died. the board was less than 6months old so waiting for RMA now

 

[shankly1985]

i bought a e4 gen3 z68 board swapped my gpu over to a 680 and the board died. the board was less than 6months old so waiting for RMA now

Did you get no post display with 680? Because when I got my Z68 extreme4 Gen3 my 7950 wouldn't work till I updated the board BIOS.

Apart from that this board is superb.

 

[cmndr_andi]

+1 to all of the above

Asrock used to be a bit dodgy, but now they are rock solid and produce some of the very best motherboards.

May I ask why you are looking for a new AMD 9 series motherboard? Did your existing board break or are you looking to build a new system?

 

[NathWraith]

I have an asrock Z68 extreme 7 and it has been pretty good for me so far

 

[olivier renault]

No complains on my end.

 

[scooby555t]

Did you get no post display with 680? Because when I got my Z68 extreme4 Gen3 my 7950 wouldn't work till I updated the board BIOS.

Apart from that this board is superb.

got no display and no dr debug also was running lastest bios tryed the old 560 back in and same issue trust me i tryed everything that weekend was a really expsive 1 new mobo and a 430 gfx card not been put off by by that little hitch though