New ASRock Motherboard

LordDarik · Sep 12, 2005

Has anyone used the new ASRock Motherboard? If so, was it any good? Were you alright with the low, medium, and high voltage settings for the memory?

I'm planning on buying it for my new machine since I already have an x800 Pro I don't want to give up.

EaH · Sep 13, 2005

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2524&p=8

im also curious about this new board. from the looks of it, the review is pretty good.
anyone else got any input?

someaznguy · Sep 15, 2005

looks tempting. good review from anand.

the only prob i have is the +.05v option for vcore.

rseven · Sep 15, 2005

to the Forum, Someaznguy.
There are going to be a few forum members with this board so some more comments shoud be in shortly. I would like to see this ULI chipset in a better brand of mobo.

Chaos Snake · Sep 16, 2005

I just ordered one today, with any hope i'll get enough time to get it all together and do a bit of testing by next week this time. I'll be shure to put a post up about it.

LordDarik · Sep 16, 2005

Hell, I'd say it's a steal if it can just boot up with everything installed! Especially for only $70. Anyway, how are the DRAM voltages of auto, normal, and high working for you?

Ducatti · Sep 16, 2005

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050916/index.html
Another review, Toms Hardware.
Looks like a good transition board for those of us who have way too much invested in a AGP card but want to be ready to play with PCI-E. Plus with the expansion slot for future CPU's this might be a winner until the definitive socket is out.

LordDarik · Sep 16, 2005

karl pell said:
My feelings exactly ... get to play w/a 939 on the cheap!no problems so far w/the Corsair, but, remember, it's a very new build ... not pushing anything real hard. Anandtech's review anticipated a problem, but found none ... a lot of it, of course, will depend on the V requirements for your memory.

Well I'm lost likely going to get Crucial Ballistix and I don't think it requires anything above 2.9v, correct me if I'm wrong.

Fam Money · Sep 18, 2005

I got mine last week and it's decent so far. As karl stated, everything booted fine for me.
A64 3000 E6(doesn't like the low volts)
2GB Patriot 3200XBLK(4*512)
BFG 6800GT
Samsung 250GB SATAII
2 Optical drives
1 Floppy

I'll have to update my sig when I get home tonight. I'll also gather some info I've gleaned from the various forums I visit about this board and post it here.

One thing you definitely need is a backplate. I bought a Thermalright plate along with the XP-90.

There is also a volt mod for the CPU that allows a tad over 1.65v. A possible vDIMM mod is also planned. Not sure if that one will pan out but we can hope.

Fam Money · Sep 19, 2005

Can't say I had any issues with my floppy.

This is my first time running a SATA drive. So far this is faster than my 80GB 8MB WD drive. BF2 loads faster,though the extra 1GB of RAM I bought may have helped with that. SO far no problems.

An interesting side note. I have the Serillel that came with my NF-7S hooked up to my Maxtor 120GB drive and it's running fine on the SATA port. I checked out Abit's site and it said this:

Abit said:
* Note: Compatible with SATA controller of Silicon Image on motherboard only!

Seems it's compatible with ULI's southbridge as well. :santa:

Fam Money · Sep 20, 2005

I'm still finding the limit of this board. Decided to run the RAM 1:1 with the 260FSB using Patriots timings for DDR500 of 3-4-4-8(10 for me). Surprisingly I was able to boot up! Still gotta see if it's stable but it seems good.....gotta tweak some more.

Sorry I didn't resize it as I only have Paint installed right now.
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8683/untweaked1yr.png

Fam Money · Sep 20, 2005

Two more things to try in the BIOS to see if I get the performance up.

rseven · Sep 20, 2005

karl pell said:
Hey R7 ... how'd the firewire hook-up work out?

I still don't know. I don't think my brother has even tried it yet ad if he did he didn't tell me. I will have to ask him to test it. (Maybe I shouldn't cause if it doesn't work I'll have to fix it

)

Nice work on the ASRock, Fam Money. It's starting to look like a really nice bargain board.

Fam Money · Sep 20, 2005

There are now two different vcore and vdimm mods.

These first two(1vcore, 1vdimm) are from RHCF:
Link

The second vdimm is from OCW and may have came directly from ASRock:
Link

The second vcore from OCW:
Link

boundrose · Sep 21, 2005

rseven said:
to the Forum, Someaznguy.
There are going to be a few forum members with this board so some more comments shoud be in shortly. I would like to see this ULI chipset in a better brand of mobo.

I've heard of abit releasing some Mobo with ULI chipset onboard. But this will be no longer a price bargain i believe

rseven · Sep 21, 2005

boundrose said:
I've heard of abit releasing some Mobo with ULI chipset onboard. But this will be no longer a price bargain i believe

That's what many foks have been waiting to here. Thanks for the word. I would hope that it would also have more bios options for the extra cost.

rseven · Sep 21, 2005

Tell me more about the leggy blonde with secrets....lol
Did you by chance get her phone number? Email? Shoe size?

LordDarik · Sep 25, 2005

Bump.

Any more news? Still happy with 'er?

HousERaT · Sep 25, 2005

so what type of fsb/htt are you folks experiencing with this board? How high are you able to overclock using the 1.2 bios? I'm seriously considering this board.

LordDarik · Sep 25, 2005

Awesome, I'm liking this board more and more as time goes by, looks like this is what I'm gonna' put in my first build. Thanks for the comments, especially karl pell.

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