Thanks! How do you like that ASRock board?
I really love the board. I'm a fan of the mATX boards and always been running budget systems for awhile. First Asrock but i've always seen around since SiS chipsets days and read they've improved quite a bit recently.
MC has given me opportunity to upgrade to a i5 2400 and this board, plus how cheap DDR3 is right now it's perfect time to upgrade but save money at the same time.
+Stable voltages. Low vroop with using offset and doesn't swing/vary that much from what I noticed. Coming from low budget AMD mATX boards, this is tons better.
+Perfect SATA location for my video config. I've used some bad mATX boards that would cover up most of them, so this is a plus.
+This board overclocks and has VRM cooling, seems rare with mATX style of boards.
+4 memory slot, awesome for upgrading
and support for IVY but i've decided this cpu will be good for awhile and until then just might as well do a whole upgrade. I actually just had an i3 2100 but the i5 2400 was $130. Loved the i3 2100 for the short time I had it and probably will recommend it to budget systems...friends, coworkers, family, etc haha.
Yeah it's not a 2500K but i'm happy with 3.8 on full load. Locked but not fully