Re: Quality of ASRock motherboards ? / Is ASRock the same as Elitegroup (ECS) ?

On 29 Nov 2006 16:21:37 GMT, jjstacy@xxxxxxxxx (Jason Stacy) wrote:

Do ASRock offer motherboards with good quality in general ?

I would characterise them as "average at best". I own one and it
works and it was dirt-cheap. The quality is definitely a bit lacking,
but it sufficed for my very limited needs. My biggest complaint is
that the built-in audio was absolutely abysmal, though fortunately I
was able to get a PCI sound card for pretty cheap. Built-in video was
probably no better, but I had an AGP vide card right from the get-go.

Is "ASRock" the new brand of Elitegroup?

Nope, it's a brand of Asus, though production was outsourced to ECS
(ECS = Elitegroup Computer Systems, often simply called "Elitegroup").

I ask because I am interested in buying the ASRock K7VT4A(+) Pro motherboard
and the naming remembers me to the name of the older famous Elitegroup
motherboard K7S5A. Both start with "K7". Is this a coincidence ?

K7 is the nickname of AMD's Athlon family of processors (Athlon,
AthlonXP, AthlonMP and the original Sempron chips). It was a
naturally follow-up to their two previous chip families, the K5 and
the K6. As such, it's no coincidence that MANY boards for K7-family
processors start with 'K7'. Similarly you'll find that many new
Athlon64 start with 'K8'.


Honestly I can't see any reason to buy a Socket A board in this day
and age unless you have a specific need for one (ie you're old Socket
A board died and you don't have the money to replace anything other
than the board). New Socket AM2 boards are pretty cheap and
processors for them are cheaper and faster than anything for Socket A.
--
Tony Hill
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