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You never use Asrock or MSI motherboards. Both have very bad reliability and customer support.

 

I believe you had a bad experience with either brands

 

I've got an MSI motherboard for quite some time, survived countless surges without a protected strip

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About three years ago I purchased my ASRock board on a whim. I was going into the Microcenter with the idea of purchasing a an ASUS Sabertooth board. They were out of stock so I grabbed the ASRock instead. I had no knowledge of the company or what their quality level was. Took it home from Microcenter and that night had my 2500k sitting at 4.8GHz stable. Was also blown away by all the features it had and the software available for it. The UEFI that was so easy to navigate and understand. I was able to pretty much teach myself how to overclock in about an hour with how self-explanatory the settings were in the Bios. I also used a Z77 Extreme4 for my brother's build. Has my 2500k sitting at 4.5GHz, and has no problems with it. As long as I'm building computers from now on I will be sticking with ASRock. They offer the best price to performance, their quality is just as good as all the other manufactures, but the features they offer on their boards for the money is incomparable. 

 

Their top tier boards cost hundred of dollars less than their competitors while offering the same features as their competitors as well as more features that aren't found on their competitors boards. Speaking specifically about the ASRock Z97 OC Formula, which currently holds the world record for a board used to bring a 4790k to the highest possible frequency (currently  7,007.82MHz). Actually both first and second place on hwbot for a 4790k's highest frequency are using ASRock OC Formula boards. 

 

Most of their negative reputation comes from the past, but they quickly changed that. You can just browse Newegg reviews on their boards to see that they provide great products. Most reviewers that get their boards give them good reviews too. 

 

When you mostly hear negativity about them now, it is carried over from the past when they used to use DPAK mosfets on some of their lower end boards. It was blown out of proportion and was never actually proven to make a difference in overclocking ability. As the motherboards in question was giving people pretty nice overclocks all across the board from users who used the motherboards with the DPAK mosfets. But a handful of users on OC.net went around spouting how terrible they were (not actually based on facts from peoples' experiences with the motherboard) but based on the fact that they used DPAK mosfets. So it became a game of "he said, she said," and they were creating factoids out of thin air.

 

 

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1381504-community-standards/

 

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Im about to order a PRO4 board from asrock (Since that's the only full size z77 atx board i can find with the lga 1155 socket..)

Im getting some mixed signals here. Should i settle for this or keep looking?

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Im about to order a PRO4 board from asrock (Since that's the only full size z77 atx board i can find with the lga 1155 socket..)

Im getting some mixed signals here. Should i settle for this or keep looking?

I believe the Pro4 was known to not be the greatest when overclocking came into consideration, are you looking to OC? If you can keep it mild then it's supposed to be fine.

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I believe the Pro4 was known to not be the greatest when overclocking came into consideration, are you looking to OC? If you can keep it mild then it's supposed to be fine.

Im currently running my cpu at 4,2ghz. Which isn't that huge of a bump. But i could back it off if i have to.

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Im currently running my cpu at 4,2ghz. Which isn't that huge of a bump. But i could back it off if i have to.

What voltage are you running?

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What voltage are you running?

1,22 or something i haven't really checked for a while

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1,22 or something i haven't really checked for a while

Should be good enough :)

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Nothing. 

 

It's based on misinformation and people passing their own opinion off as fact.

 

ASUS created ASRock for OEM + entry level stuff as not to tarnish the ASUS brand in the enthusiast eye.

 

Which is why ASRock is stuck with this reputation of being cheap and unreliable.

 

At the end of the day as Faa said a motherboard manufacturer wouldn't last very long if all their boards arrive DOA.

 

This..

 

on side note. For the z97 chipset, I do think the Extreme series is one of the better looking color schemes

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Owned an AsRock Extreme4+ Fm2+ board. It died after 4 months on normal use. AsRock stepped up their game a lot in their latest z97 boards but my experience with older boards was quite bad. 

 

Issues

Overheating NB and SB (checked manual with temppistol)

Wrong temps reading on the cpu and mb

^ Caused the fancontrollers to be unable to set correctly

Oc settings won't save in their oc tool only in bios

Also I had a hard time finding working drivers under windows 8.1

 

AsRock is a no-brainer for budget builds but I won't say they are for high quality. Better invest more.

 

Before going thru sending the board to asia and explain my frustration I ended up exhausting the anger it in a diffrent way http://i.imgur.com/2t6Lpjp.jpg

Bye LTT. That was an interesting journey on this board. At least here you see how not to do it. I'll go shaking my head about this place.

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i dont know about the msi customer service because i haven't had to use it for the last 3 motherboards ive had from them.  B)

Specs: Cpu: i7-4790k@4.5ghz 1.19v Cooler: H100i Motherboard: Msi z97 g55 SLI  Ram: Kingston HyperX Black 16gb 1600mhz GPU: XFX R9 290X Core Edition PSU: Corsair HX850  Case: Fractal Design Define R4 Storage: Force series 3 120gb ssd, sandisk ultra 256gb ssd, 1tb blue drive  Keyboard: Rosewill RK9100x Mouse: DeathAdder  Monitors: 3 22 inch on a triple monitor mount

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