Don't Buy Asrock
- Thread starter Hsv_Man
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Even though I dont like Asrock boards, thats a little harsh. Unless you have used alot of Asrocks and the % of RMAs was pretty high. I have had to RMA Gigabytes, matter of fact I sent one back about 2 months ago. Over the years I've had to send back or just threw out about every brand you can think of.
Langers2k7
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Same here, my mate had no end to the troubles with his Asrock mini atx board. It had trouble recognising SATA devices, and gradually everything started to fail on it - USB ports, LAN, audio - everything. He recently changed it for a nice Gigabyte model. :good:
apj101
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You dont burn the coop just because you get one bad egg
Yeah i agree....any board reguardless of make or quality can fail,Even the very high end expensive ones can fail out of the blue.
But personally,id only buy from Msi,Asus,Gigabyte,XFX...all of which are known for making good boards.
Laquer Head
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Ive had a 400 dollar ASUS mobo fail on me after just a few weeks,,
shit happens, that why there are warranties!
shit happens, that why there are warranties!
tlarkin
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I've touched so many PCs in my time that I have seen every kind of part from everyone fail, I just think some companies fail more than others. Warranty is a big factor and customer service.
I've never had an Asus board fail.
Matthew1990
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THey do look dodgy, I mean the prices are almost half of the Asus board.
Laquer Head
Well-Known Member
They fail! trust me.
quality and reliability is far superior to most competitors but they are not flawless!
tlarkin
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Oh I know, Asus makes most of the motherboards for HP business class machines and I had plenty of them fail on me. However, my personal builds I have never had one yet fail on me *knocks on wood*, and I still have one of my first computers from like 15 years ago. Asus board with a 440bx chipset, which I need to take down to the recycling center.
In fact I need to make a couple trips because I have so many old parts in my closet that just take up space. I think I got an Intel MB and a e6300 sitting in my closet doing nothing, ha ha ha.
schw32m
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Seems like you might have just had a bit of bad luck. I've never had any problem with my AsRock board. In fact aside from an AOpen AX6BC 440BX (which is pretty much retired to experimenting status) it is one of the oldest boards I have running. Some have better features than others but for the most part I've done pretty good on MB longevity.
The old board list:
AOpen AX6BC (runs a 1Gz P-3)
AsRock K7S41GX (runs a Sempron 2.2Gz)
Shuttle AK31V3.0 (runs an OC Athlon XP @ 2Gz Palamino core)
PCchips M825LU V7.2 (runs an OC Athlon XP @ 2.2Gz TB-b core)
Asus P4B-LA (Pull from an HP. Runs a stock 2.30Gz P-4 Northwood)
Soyo (Socket 775 runs a stock dual core Pentium D Pressler)
Still have a Dell socket 478 with a Celeron 2.8 Northwood but I really don't have a use for that one. About the only board that I have had straight up die in the last few years was an ECS P-4 board pulled from an E-machines T-2245.
Most of the newer stuff that I have done for myself or others I have pretty much stuck with Asus or Gigabyte MBs.
YMMV
tlarkin
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Just for everyone out there--ASRock and ASUS are made by the same company. It's contradictory to say that you don't buy from ASRock and you like ASUS.
Yeah but Cisco makes Linksys..... (well technically they don't but they own them) so that point is moot.
Asus bought them out long ago and just use the name to sell cheap stuff. They are hardly the same product.
bomberboysk
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ASRock is a subsidiary of ASUS,used to sell their cheap/low end products and try to keep the asus name for higher end/higher quality products.Just for everyone out there--ASRock and ASUS are made by the same company. It's contradictory to say that you don't buy from ASRock and you like ASUS
Asus never bought them out, Asus created it as a subsidiary to sell low end boards.
And as far as the linksys/cisco thing, its essentially the same thing as the ASRock situation. Linksys doesnt use parts anywhere near the same grade/quality as cisco(eg- im picking up a cisco router here in a few weeks thats around 10 years old, it has a routing capacity almost 4 times the amount of my 3 year old linksys wireless "router"(More like router+access point+4port switch). Cisco is enterprise level stuff, while with linksys you get consumer grade(GUI).
tlarkin
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Either way they are not comparable products. Asus wanted to enter the cheap lower end market and they did by doing so. The probably sell massive amounts of motherboards to Gateways and Acers and other cheap PCs.
So, instead of cheapening their established name they either buy out a company and use them, or create another company and use them. That is pretty standard.
I mean when it all comes down to component level stuff, almost every electronics has either LG or Hitachi parts in them, but that doesn't mean they are the same quality.
So, instead of cheapening their established name they either buy out a company and use them, or create another company and use them. That is pretty standard.
I mean when it all comes down to component level stuff, almost every electronics has either LG or Hitachi parts in them, but that doesn't mean they are the same quality.