asrock any good in general??

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ello

my asus 939 mobo decided to break this weekend

looking at the asrock ( on ocuk )

wondering if anyone had any opinions on them in general or should i go for a different brand ( have an opty clocked to 2.88 )

do they clock well etc etc

all opinions appreciated

cheers in advance :)
 
I know they've taken the plunge into enthusiast-type motherboards....might be worth checking their site out...I know their new 775 board can get up to 560FSB.
 
Asrock are generally known for having boards great for transition upgrading.
The last one I used was socket 775, had both dd1 and ddr2 ram, and PCIe and AGP.
I also have a socket 939 one with both AGP and PCIe, and it can take AM2 chips with an addin board.

They're just flexible, and get the job done, none of them overclock hugely well from what I have seen. The 775 one, has a max fsb of 300 (stock 266) from what I have read.
 
You're not generally going to get dedicated overclocking boards as that's their parent company's (ASUS) domain.

What they are are solid and flexible. Not mind-blowing, just cheap and to the point.
 
Evry board I have had the displeasure of installing have been very poorly made (ram not fitting into ram slots correctly PCI etc slots roughly made and poorly fitting) and give very poor results performance wise. I would avoid them myself.
 
I have seen no issues with the ASROCK 4CORE VISTA - (DDR 1 +2, PCI-E and AGP) it was the perfect midgrade board for my puposes. Moderately good overclocking. No issues with either type of DDR or graphics. Solid as a rock. I still haven't upgraded from the board one year later - even though I am now DDR II, 8800 GTS, there is no compelling reason to.

Would buy again, though with every individual board I would do a forum search for issues.
 
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my dual-sata2 939 overclocked pretty well for a 939 mobo... 310mhz bus speed... Their new 650i board is meant to be quite good, as i think it releases with official 1600mhz fsb support...
 
Asrock boards are a load of ****. Iv'e had nothing but problems with them. They are tacky. I get blue and green screen of death on this board im running now. I'm going back to asus boards and never gonna look at Ascock again.
 
ASRock are the value brand of ASUS. They are usually last year's ASUS designs manufactured in an ASUS owned factory to ASUS standards of QA and engineering.

They are never the cutting edge of technology, because then they would compete with ASUS, but they are usually priced low to reflect the fact that they are not the latest thing.

It's quite possible for an ASRock board to be a pile of poo, or a very good piece of kit. If the original ASUS concept it was based on was pants, then the ASRock board will be too. It is very often quoted that ASRock specialize in transition boards, but actually, those boards were also ASUS designs, it's just they aren't sold in many markets, including the UK.

As has been mentioned, the new ASRock P35 board (last year's ASUS P5K) is a stormer. If you do your research you should be able to find out all about your selected S939 board, however the chances are it won't be a top performer or overclocker, but there is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be 100% stable.
 
^^^ what he said,

I have used ASRock boards for a very long time now. For price, performance & reliability you'll be hard pushed to find a better budget board. Foxconn may be the only other.
 
Current board (ASROCK 939Dual-SATA2) is the best I've ever owned and has been absolutely rock stable (when set up correctly) for over 2 years. It's possibly been the best bit of computer hardware I've owned full stop.

It's seen me through 939 A64 3000+, 1GB DDR and an AGP 6600GT to the current AM2 X2 5000+ BE (@3GHz), 4GB DDR2 and PCI-E 8800GT with various other hardware changes in between. I'll be very sorry to see it go when it does eventually get upgraded.
 
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