Asrock... think i'll pass.

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Justintime

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I know in the past i've said Asrock was ok, but over the last 3 months i've seen 4 builds go bad, all Asrock boards, p67pro3 'B3' versions.

Different psus and different locations (20 miles apart lol) so not something localised. Coupled with the fact that i've got another P67pro3 here that refuses to clock a 2500k to 4.3ghz reliably.. lol, Asus and gigabyte boards get it to 4.6Ghz with 1.35v, with the Asrock, 4.3Ghz needs 1.365v and LLC to 1, but it will eventually BSOD with 101 usually, 4ghz seems to be the max it can do at 1.33v without crashing.

Can't say any rig has anything in common, different video/ram/psus etc.. right now all of them exhibit the same symptom, virtually any overclock or deviation from stock volts/speeds results in an unstable operation, thinking bad mosfets/vrms, they were all rock solid at mild (4.5Ghz) clocks but slowly degraded, randomly rebooting with no bsod, i've retested all cpus and ram in other boards and they're not the cause . Could be a bad batch but they were bought a few months apart, same supplier though, whom has gone bust.. and since its only a 1yr authorised retailer/reseller (not direct) warranty on Asrock boards.. i'm out of pocket.
 
I've always considered Asrock to be a budget brand, like Biostar/ECS. I wouldn't be surprised if low quality power components are why they don't yield great overclocking results. As you say, best to stick to the slightly more expensive but also more reputable brands.
 
send an email to either


[email protected]

or

[email protected] (asrock europe, netherlands based)

explain your situation and I'm sure they'll be happy

even if you use the asrockamerica address you should get a reply from the netherlands one, if they do help you'll have to send the board/s to the netherlands and pay for the shipping both ways.

I've had to use them recently as I had a bent pin in my new extreme 7 gen 3 and all ocuk did was charge me £22(for testing and return shipping) for the pleasure of sending the board to them and refused the rma due to the bent pin(claiming the warranty was void), ended up costing me £35(£22 + the £13 to post it to them in te first place).
 
You really should do something about that fowler, I dont think they have a leg to stand on unless it can be prooved 100% that pins cannot be bent during manufacture etc, I'm 99.9% sure they can.

I would be writing letters to trading standards, and sending letters threatening legal action if they do not reply back within 14 days.

Your statutory rights are being peed on from a great height here.

Ah, I see (in another thread) you have already taken up the matter with the manufacturers and gotten a new board, great :)
 
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I had the same issue with another shop, it's standard, unless you tell them within 24 hours that you have a bent pin, the shop will assume that the problem occurred when the cpu was installed.

Fortunately gigaman (gigabyte rep) on these forums arranged for it to be fixed for free.
 
In my eyes, ASRock are a budget board manufacturer trying to mix it with the big boys and not quite having the quality to do so. They seem to be flavour of the month as they look quite flashy though. I'll stick with Asus myself :)
 
fowler002 said:
send an email to either


[email protected]

or

[email protected] (asrock europe, netherlands based)

explain your situation and I'm sure they'll be happy

even if you use the asrockamerica address you should get a reply from the netherlands one, if they do help you'll have to send the board/s to the netherlands and pay for the shipping both ways.

I've had to use them recently as I had a bent pin in my new extreme 7 gen 3 and all ocuk did was charge me £22(for testing and return shipping) for the pleasure of sending the board to them and refused the rma due to the bent pin(claiming the warranty was void), ended up costing me £35(£22 + the £13 to post it to them in te first place).
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Ta mate, already sent a message to the American one, hopefully something will be done.
 
I've had a PRO3 Z68 die on me, but have just bought another ASRock, I don't think it's fair to write off a brand based on one model of one chipset, but, granted, I have done it in the past...
 
I'm considering the n200 chipset Asrock Gen 3 Extreme 7.

I've never used Asrock before, but I have previously discounted EVGA after several bad boards and Gigabyte too. Asus and MSI are my first port of calls.
 
even stulid (the asrock rep) doesnt use an asrock board

that my friends speaks volumes, infact its been forsale for months
 
Happy with my Z68 Extreme4.

Had no issues, clocks well and has good features for the price.

In fact I have had issues with Asus boards in the past which is why I tried something else,
 
Asrock are awesome.

I had a board a couple of years back that cost £33. And with some close talks with the devs we managed to make it do things that shouldn't be possible on a £33 motherboard :D

Crossfire, 1090t support.

A really awesome bunch of guys and girls :) Used to send me private bioses to test out.
 
There is only one way to give a fair comparisson and that is to do a poll of all the motherboards on socket 1155 people have bought and which have had to been returned/replaced due to faults.
 
As well as being happy with my board have to agree their support is excellent.

I emailed them enquiring about extra long crossfire bridges as I didn't know at the time board manufacturers didn't supply them. They mentioned that they might have one lying around and then 3 days later one turned up in the post from Holland.
 
I bought the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 when recommended, it needed the bios upgrade to sort the inverted mouse issue, other than that it has no issues whatsoever.
 
Cupra said:
even stulid (the asrock rep) doesnt use an asrock board

that my friends speaks volumes, infact its been forsale for months
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I believe when stulid first went i5 he had the ASRock Z68 Extreme 4. Same board I have which is rock solid with good features that have since been made even better. The only mobo I have ever had die on me is an Asus
 
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