ASUS vs ASROCK

[jimmyj68]

How does a company produce equal quality products that seem to do the same things yet one is priced lower than the other? Is it a matter of leaving off some extra features? If you didn't want the "extra features" any way can you feel you are getting the rep and build of an ASUS board if you buy ASROCK?

 

[emilyek]

IMO, Asrock has always made niche/oddball products, usually with second and third-rate chipsets to reduce cost.

The boards and packages might be similiar, but Asus' good boards used and still use mainstream chipsets, and they weren't designed around some gimmick like motherboards with slots for a 939 and a 754 processor-- or an AGP and a PCI-E motherboard w/an expansion card for AM2, etc.

The dual-sataII has been a real winner for AsRock because it didn't have a SIS or VIA chipset, but an actually decent 3rd party one (ULI).

Notice that Nvidia didn't leap to buyout SIS or VIA as quick as they could.

 

[FreedomGUNDAM]

I would have to agree with emilyek. I'm currently looking at an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 as it gives very similar performance as the Nforce4 SLI series on mobo but at 2/3 the cost.

 

[secretanchitman]

the asrock sata2 mobo uses the ULI chipset, which is actually owned by nvidia now, and that particular chipset is, IMO, much better than SIS and VIA.

asus owns asrock (i think), both make good products, but i consider asus to be "higher-end", and asrock bringing the rest of lineup towards the low-end to middle-end.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: FreedomGUNDAM
I would have to agree with emilyek. I'm currently looking at an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 as it gives very similar performance as the Nforce4 SLI series on mobo but at 2/3 the cost.

I own that board and love it! But, being a ULI chipset newer versions of forceware will not allow SLI mode. I am currently limited to ver 82.12.

 

[qwertyOne]

At one point in time ASUS owned ASRocks. ASRocks use to be the more economical version of ASUS.

 

[Tostada]

ASUS doesn't own ASRock anymore? When did that happen?

It was my impression that ASUS was all made in Taiwan, and ASRock was a Chinese factory they built to make cheaper stuff. I've always had good luck with ASRock.

 

[imported_Imp]

From ym experience, I would put ASsRock at garbage rate, but from what I've heard all along, they are the budget end of ASUS.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: FreedomGUNDAM
I would have to agree with emilyek. I'm currently looking at an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 as it gives very similar performance as the Nforce4 SLI series on mobo but at 2/3 the cost.

I own that board and love it! But, being a ULI chipset newer versions of forceware will not allow SLI mode. I am currently limited to ver 82.12.

this is just f*cked up, especially since nvidia owns uli now

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: FreedomGUNDAM
I would have to agree with emilyek. I'm currently looking at an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 as it gives very similar performance as the Nforce4 SLI series on mobo but at 2/3 the cost.

I own that board and love it! But, being a ULI chipset newer versions of forceware will not allow SLI mode. I am currently limited to ver 82.12.

this is just f*cked up, especially since nvidia owns uli now

Tell me about it. In my situation, I bought this board right before, and I mean RIGHT before Nvidia released the non Nforce mobo-no SLI drivers. Ive always hated Nvidia and havent used them since the geforce3 days when I switched to ATI because Nvidia had so many patches just to get simple games running. I decided recently to try nvidia again being that its been 3 rev later, maybe they got their crap together. Now I remember why I hate them. I still have to patch some older games that play fine on ATI cards, and now with the "If it aint made by us, we wont allow SLI" attitude I really hate em. Bastards.