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aizen13
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_ 		24. June 2009 @ 19:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hear there an affiliate of asus, or second tier asus boards.
Hows the quality of these boards?

Im torn between these two boards:

ASRock A790GMH

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157162 edited by ddp

ASUS M3A78-EM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131324 edited by ddp


Their basically the same price & On paper the Asrock has better feat. (minus firewire which doesn't matter to me anyway)

I just cant seem to find any reviews on the Asrock or its quality.
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dailun
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 12:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wouldn't buy another one for myself.

re: ASRock vs. ASUS, here is a thread

http://www.motherboardpoint.com/asrock-versus-asus-t14159.html
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aizen13
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 16:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks alot, Asus is a sure thing. Quality will be my piece of mind.
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_ 		3. July 2009 @ 11:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by aizen13:
 Thanks alot, Asus is a sure thing. Quality will be my piece of mind.
Asus is not a sure thing...they work nearly 50% of the time. Asrock is much closer to a sure thing since just about every board has a problem.
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by aizen13:
 Thanks alot, Asus is a sure thing. Quality will be my piece of mind.
Asus is not a sure thing...they work nearly 50% of the time. Asrock is much closer to a sure thing since just about every board has a problem.
I'm not here to get into a pi**ing contest, but that's a rather ridiculuous number (50%) unless you qualify it.

If ASUS had a 50% problem rate with their motherboards they wouldn't be in business anymore.
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varnull
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_ 		3. July 2009 @ 14:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah.. I'm using a 5 year old asrock mobo.. hasn't put a foot wrong

19:47:57 up 652 days, 2:26,

BUT .. imho stability comes at the cost of performance.. if you want blazing fast (to run all that M$ bloatware garbage) then expect a high failure rate... find me a dell p2 300 or a cyrix m2 that is beyond repair.. same applies.. run well within specs and lasts forever.. run on cutting edge (why?.. just to play some pointless games??.. want sheer number crunching??.. build a cluster) and it goes bang.. simple really.. which is why there are so many boy racer clios and 104's on scrapheaps.. where you never find a real performance car XD
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sammorris
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_ 		5. July 2009 @ 04:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Depends what you buy. In the cheap sector of the market, both Asus and ASRock have quite severe quality control problems. The best brands to buy from for basic motherboards are MSI and Gigabyte.
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