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Isn't ASRock a branch of ASUS that left the company or a spin off of them? (I can't remember)

 

Anyways, are they typically good? Their X99 boards are actually pretty cheap and I like the Fatality Gaming Series boards they have. 

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from my experience yes, very good :) fastest booting board ive owned

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From my experience, no.

 

I had a Z77 Pro3, and all of the DIMM slots along with the rear USB 3.0 died within a year.

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I love my Asrock Z87 Pro4 motherboard. 

Good software, good BIOS, easy to use, even has good fast boot options. :)

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From my experience, no.

 

I had a Z77 Pro3, and all of the DIMM slots along with the rear USB 3.0 died within a year.

TBH Z87/97 Improved a lot from Z77 though. 

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I love my Asrock Z87 Pro4 motherboard. 

Good software, good BIOS, easy to use, even has good fast boot options. :)

From what I've seen the BIOS do seem pretty easy to use/setup for OC'ing. 

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TBH Z87/97 Improved a lot from Z77 though. 

I know, but I am still sharing my experience for what it is.

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as long as you go for their better boards it should be as good as asus.

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they are great, i had a slight (very slight) hum on my audio chip but everything was very good, no issues at all

 

it was a Z77 board tho, and a prety budget orientated one 

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I have owned an ASRock Fatali1ty Z87, and an ASRock Z97 Extreme6.  Both boards have done good for me so far. Can't so much about the longevity, as I haven't had them very long, but they are feature rich motherboards with some, imo, very nice aesthetics. 

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They used to be terrible but over the last years they really stepped up their game and now they are just fine. 

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I have owned an ASRock Fatali1ty Z87, and an ASRock Z97 Extreme6.  Both boards have done good for me so far. Can't so much about the longevity, as I haven't had them very long, but they are feature rich motherboards with some, imo, very nice aesthetics. 

I love the Fatality series, it's more of a lighter red than the typical darkish red. 

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Bought one of their hoards once, never managed to get it to work. It boots, POSTs, but I can't install an OS. I prefer Gigabyte.

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excellent value, love my Extreme 6....bought it "about" 2 tears ago for $129 and no regrets :)

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I run a Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 on my personal rig and a Z77 Extreme4 on my brother's rig. They have served me very well, are loaded with features, software available for them is very useful, UEFI is easy to navigate, organized and understandable, the overclocking on them is spectacular. 

 

On my Extreme4 Gen3 I've taken both a 2500k and 2600k to 5.2GHz benchmark stable in both Heaven Benchmark, 3DMark11 and 3DMark Vantage. On the Z77 I got the 2500k undervolted at 4.5GHz. 

 

Imo, you cant really beat ASRock both for their mid ranged offerings or their high end offerings. They catch a bad rap because they had used DPAK mosfets with their lower end Z77 series, they really weren't a problem, but certain individuals went out on a limb to make it seem like it was a problem. Even though the DPAK mosfets didn't limit overclocks on the boards at all. They also catch a bad rap because they had some older lower end boards that weren't very high quality, but as of now they are a solid brand. They innovate with their products, and beat price to performance all the time.

 

ASRock motherboards are like the AMD GPU's of computer hardware. They are priced to compete with more expensive offerings, while providing the same or better performance. But still are under fire because of past issues that people carry on. 

 

 

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

 

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ASROCK 870 Extreme 3 going on almost 5 years...solid as a rock, sporting my amd phenom II x4 965 even with a sata port accidentally ripped off (whoops!)

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ASROCK 870 Extreme 3 going on almost 5 years...solid as a rock, sporting my amd phenom II x4 965 even with a sata port accidentally ripped off (whoops!)

oops!!! lol

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I have been using Asrock motherboards for years on both gaming PC and FreeNas and I have had 100% reliability and my god they are cheap in the UK

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