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I was wondering why all of the X99 motherboards have bad reviews except for the ASRock boards but for some reason everyone still uses the X99 deluxe. Why is this?

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I was wondering why all of the X99 motherboards have bad reviews except for the ASRock boards but for some reason everyone still uses the X99 deluxe. Why is this?

More then anything looks and Asus is more trusted then Asrock for Intel Boards.

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I think that ASRock should hire new marketing staff.

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From my limited knowledge, they use to not be as good as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI. However, in the past couple years, they see, to be getting better with their motherboards.

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AsRock make great enthusiast boards at the entry level.  Once you start going higher end enthusiast boards, the competition gets stiffer.

 

I would not spend twice as much for the ASUS Deluxe (X99), over the AsRock Extreme 3... no freakin' way.

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I'm guessing people don't want to have to risk dealing with tech support that doesn't speak English when they're sinking >$200 on a motherboard.

If memory serves, Asrock and MSI have the highest motherboard failure rates. Gigabyte has the lowest I think.

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I'm guessing people don't want to have to risk dealing with tech support that doesn't speak English when they're sinking >$200 on a motherboard.

If memory serves, Asrock and MSI have the highest motherboard failure rates. Gigabyte has the lowest I think.

 

I have helped friends build around 8 machines with AsRock mobos in the past 2-3 years.  Not a single board failed.  I have an Asrock Z77, it runs beautifully.

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Probably branding. and maybe personal preference for aesthetics?

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Probably branding. and maybe personal preference for aesthetics?

could be..and maybe just a few bucks more and you can have the relied board by most.

 

i dunno about the costs there really  :D

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I have helped friends build around 8 machines with AsRock mobos in the past 2-3 years.  Not a single board failed.  I have an Asrock Z77, it runs beautifully.

 

Motherboard failure rates are between 1.5-3.5% so unless you get really unlucky you'd most likely have to build dozens before you encountered a faulty one. The problem is Asrock customer support, from what I've heard, is very much outsourced and it will be a pain in the ass to get your issues resolved IF you have them. (people who barely speak english, lots of copypasta answers, etc.)

 

I've not used them myself so I don't know how much truth there is to that.

 

edit: Actually I used an Asrock H97M Pro4 in my friend's build and it was fine, but never had to dial in customer service so not sure how it fares.

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. The problem is Asrock customer support, from what I've heard, is very much outsourced and it will be a pain in the ass to get your issues resolved IF you have them. (people who barely speak english, lots of copypasta answers, etc.)

 

yes, i have no problems recommending entry level boards from asrock because lower end boards are all equivalent quality pretty much and asrock tend to offer some more features for thevmoney, but once it gets to higher end stuff (150$+) i usualy pick something else...just in case!

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Motherboard failure rates are between 1.5-3.5% so unless you get really unlucky you'd most likely have to build dozens before you encountered a faulty one. The problem is Asrock customer support, from what I've heard, is very much outsourced and it will be a pain in the ass to get your issues resolved IF you have them. (people who barely speak english, lots of copypasta answers, etc.)

 

I've not used them myself so I don't know how much truth there is to that.

 

edit: Actually I used an Asrock H97M Pro4 in my friend's build and it was fine, but never had to dial in customer service so not sure how it fares.

And that is why ordering from Amazon is awesome :) you can say it does not work and just... get a new one

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And that is why ordering from Amazon is awesome :) you can say it does not work and just... get a new one

lmao, its so true.

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Before X99 i had 5 straight ASRock boards and they were amazing. I went to Gigabyte because I heard how amazing the "SOC Force" was and i regret it. X99 SOC Force is garbage and the X99 OC Formula is my next board 

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Asus has been making boards since computing had just started. Asrock is a very late comer or they're a chip off Asus. When a person picks between them, they'll mostly go with the one who's been doing it the longest.

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Before X99 i had 5 straight ASRock boards and they were amazing. I went to Gigabyte because I heard how amazing the "SOC Force" was and i regret it. X99 SOC Force is garbage and the X99 OC Formula is my next board 

 

What's wrong with it out of curiosity? Poor feature set?

Gigabyte has the lowest failure rates last I checked so I'm guessing it's not just a turd.

 

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI and it's a solid board but the BIOS is pretty lame.

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I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI and it's a solid board but the BIOS is pretty lame.

yeah it's sad that gigabyte hired a 9 years old to program their uefi's...can you control your case fans and cpu fans with your board from the bios or do you have to rely on softwares for this?

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What's wrong with it out of curiosity? Poor feature set?

Gigabyte has the lowest failure rates last I checked so I'm guessing it's not just a turd.

 

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI and it's a solid board but the BIOS is pretty lame.

 

Board itself is amazing. Bios is just garbage 

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I recently bought my first Asrock board, the z97 extreme3. I had a problem with stock bus speed, i couldn't figure it out, so i decided to contact their support. I got a response within 24 hours, the guy spoke perfect english and the problem was resolved right away. So as far as i'm concerned, the boards are good, the uefi bios looks nice, overclocking is easy and straight forward, and on the top of all that, they have good support team.

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Confirmed for ASRock employee or spy paid to say good things about them. :P

 
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Asus has been making boards since computing had just started. Asrock is a very late comer or they're a chip off Asus. When a person picks between them, they'll mostly go with the one who's been doing it the longest.

For practicality purposes, Asus hasn't exactly been 'doing it longer' than ASRock since they were working together to fill out the value and enthusiast segments of the market.

Due to parroting, the original spin-off of ASRock as lower end vs Asus as higher end has stuck.

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Confirmed for ASRock employee or spy paid to say good things about them. :P

This is what i get for trying to contribute to discussion......

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well both my asrock motherboards I've had.. died... soo.. I'm never buying them again.. probably I'm not the only one :lol:

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