Are ASROCk motherboards any good?

[dave_the_nerd]

Als

Also.. If I plugged the power in wrong once, could it ruin the board completely? Or would it still work if I changed to the right location

No, it won't hurt the board at all.

The Power/Reset switches should work whether they're installed upside-down or backwards or whatever - all they're doing is creating contact between the two pins. Hardware wise, the switches themselves are interchangeable. Although if your reset button turns the computer on and the power button resets it, that might be confusing for other people, so I'd suggest you get this right.

The LEDs are polarity-sensitive, but reversed polarity won't hurt anything - it just keeps the LED from lighting up.

The motherboard manual should have a detailed diagram of the pinout for the front panel header, and your case's cabling should be properly labelled (unless it was made by some fly-by-night vendor.)

A flashlight and a magnifying glass are useful tools for me, with my old eyes.

 

[MadOver]

Just did a build with their latest Hyper mobo, now my non K 6600 (2800Mhz 32w) is running past 4Ghz!
Great overclocking options..

 

[monkeydelmagico]

I've had good luck with ASRock pro 3 and pro 4 boards.

 

[fleshconsumed]

This question comes up every so often. Seems like there is still a lot of distrust of ASRock. They're good. As others have said they give the most bang for the buck. They tend to have better video output options on their motherboards, they tend to have diagnostic LED POST display, onboard power/reset buttons, and dual BIOS chips. For example I just bought ASRock AM1H-ITX mini-ITX board for pfSense build and the motherboard has every video output imaginable (HDMI, DVI, VGA, DP), has digital audio output, and most importantly for me it has laptop style 19V DC jack so I can put it in a really small mini-ITX case and just power it with a laptop power brick. And best of all it only cost me $48 from Microcenter, barely a smidge more expensive than less featured motherboards from other brands.

 

[you2]

As I said before and they have great bios. Really super duper unhappy with msi bios.

 

[WelshBloke]

Just got some awesome service with Asrock.

I've had an Asrock C2750D4I motherboard running a freenas server that just went poof.

Contacted Asrock technical support with the hope of getting the motherboard repaired and was fully happy to pay for the repair as the board is at least 6 months out of warranty. Support guy asked a few questions and referred me to the RMA dept who issued an RMA on my first email to them.

Posted the board to the RMA dept and in just over a week I have a shiny new motherboard!

Totally painless process and as buying a new one would have cost about £400 I'm extremely pleased.

I'll totally be sticking with Asrock after that!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Just got some awesome service with Asrock.

I've had an Asrock C2750D4I motherboard running a freenas server that just went poof.

Contacted Asrock technical support with the hope of getting the motherboard repaired and was fully happy to pay for the repair as the board is at least 6 months out of warranty. Support guy asked a few questions and referred me to the RMA dept who issued an RMA on my first email to them.

Posted the board to the RMA dept and in just over a week I have a shiny new motherboard!

Totally painless process and as buying a new one would have cost about £400 I'm extremely pleased.

I'll totally be sticking with Asrock after that!

I haven't had to deal with Asrock customer support, thankfully. But I'm glad to hear their customer service is as good as their product.

 

[WelshBloke]

I haven't had to deal with Asrock customer support, thankfully. But I'm glad to hear their customer service is as good as their product.

This is in the UK btw, if that makes any difference.

 

[biostud]

This is in the UK btw, if that makes any difference.

Yeah, the EU have stricter rules for companies and warranties than US....

 

[biostud]

I've been happy with my X99 Asrock board. Would by an Asrock motherboard again.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I've been using an ASRock Z68Pro3 with an i5-2500 for years now and it has been problem-free, I'd buy from them again.

 

[Despoiler]

My Asrock Z77 Extreme4 has been in service over 4 years now. Not a single issue with it. The BIOS is simple to use, feature rich, and has always been stable. The only knock against it is the PCB is on the thinner side. You can flex it pretty easily while inserting RAM or whatever. Hasn't caused an issue though. I'll for sure be taking a look at their AM4 offerings for Zen.

 

[paperfist]

I have 2 24/7 systems running them now. 1 system I just replaced ran one for 4 years. I've never had a problem with them and have used them in the past.

I've emailed their tech support a few times about hooking up USB headers and they answer right away.

 

[you2]

I have a z68 extreme 4; no clue how old it is - probably around 7 years. I use it in my server with a 2500k which runs 24/7. So far no issues but who knows; there is always tomorrow. Luckily it is my linux box so replacement won't be too painful 'cept that lga 1155 is dead. Hopefully it will run until 60 TB ssd are under $2000.00 and I can replace my last atx system with a mini-itx or smaller.

 

[Rifter]

I haven't used them in 9 years or so, at that time they were sub par and i had a few issues with the boards i had, i wont buy one again. I stick to gigabyte/Asus nowadays. Gigabyte has some great budget boards so i see no reason to look to the bottom of the barrel brands like asrock, ecs, etc.

 

[biostud]

I haven't used them in 9 years or so, at that time they were sub par and i had a few issues with the boards i had, i wont buy one again. I stick to gigabyte/Asus nowadays. Gigabyte has some great budget boards so i see no reason to look to the bottom of the barrel brands like asrock, ecs, etc.

So because they started with subpar boards, you shouldn't buy them now, when they make excellent boards? Makes sense...

 

[Prey2big]

I've been running my ASrock P67 Professional since january 2011 with an i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz flawlessly. Before I was a little bit hesitant towards ASrock but this one has proven itself.

 

[dlerious]

I've been happy with my X99 Asrock board. Would by an Asrock motherboard again.

Which X99 board are you running? I was looking at the WS-E, along with the ASUS Deluxe II and Gigabyte Designare EX .

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

ASRock mobos are fine, but the Pro3 and Pro4 (at least the Z77 variants) were sorely lacking.
The damned VRM section kept throttling due to current demands when OCing a 2500K even when I added heatsinks and active cooling to them.

Swapped for an Extreme4 and a Biostar TZ77XE4 that worked MUCH better.

Gigabyte mobos are alright again, but there was a period of time / generation or two where they suffered from severe bootloop issues.

 

[biostud]

Which X99 board are you running? I was looking at the WS-E, along with the ASUS Deluxe II and Gigabyte Designare EX .

It is in my sig. Been running since the launch of the X99 platform.

 

[you2]

What I like about asrock is the bios; so bloody convenient. I've not used gigabyte; but even modern msi mb are severly lacking in ease of use. Asus and ecs are ok I guess with the asus darn close (I'm talking about the bios). In the past 18 months I have purchased 1 highend msi; one ecs; and one asus. The msi board (which mpower variant) had a bios that was more painful than the p68 extreme 4 i purchased 5+ years ago. I'm not talking about overclocking and twiddling stuff (which gigabyte is said to be very good but i haven't used one in years) but rather the simple stuff - easy of enabling/disabling certain mb features; bios update; quick boot from alternative device and similar stuff. The msi board was simply missing options in this area;t he other boards mostly have them but they are a pia to use in some cases.
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I do not do a lot of overclocking (but have done a little) so that is an area i can't rate the boards. As for reliability so far no issues with any mb in the past 20 years; though I need to check on a relative system next week - they claim the usb devices stopped working and that might be a mb issue (that mb is a h81 chipset).

 

[JordanMihailov]

I use for almost 2 years Asrock z97Extreme 4 with i7 4790k and no problems whatsoever It's not asus of course but it's good enough for the money and has plenty of tweaks

 

[Bubbaleone]

See my sig....solid hardware, excellent thermal design, quality electronic components, and intuitive UEFI make Asrock's high-end boards the best bang for the buck, period.

 

[JordanMihailov]

See my sig....solid hardware, exellent thermal design, quality electronic components, and intuitive UEFI make Asrock's high-end boards the best bang for the buck, period.

Agree for the highest class Asrock that is best bang for the buck By the way had that 3770K and was very good until the memory controller died

 

[poofyhairguy]

Just bought a Asrock Rack mobo for my Unraid server.