ASrock Rocked my #@!. Literally. *rant/warning*

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sinner0423

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So, here is what I learned today : Don't buy anything from a company with a name closely related to ASSRock.

I bought this K7VT6, since i'm a broke fool, and it's $44 on newegg.

The parallel port is loose, the IDE connectors have PLASTIC TABS *INSIDE* the rectangle surrounding the pins.. So, guess what? I successfully managed to break plastic around the slave connector. Brilliant design.

Would not post, at all. even after :

1) removing cmos battery
2) jumping cmos
3) swapping video cards
4) swapping ram
5) checking everything, 80x over

I've been building systems for years, and I've never seen such a stupendous piece of crap. If you want to know what pre-teen sweat shop workers build, it's ASrock, baby.

Thanks for listening.
 
I built 2 identical machines on last Friday night using the ASRock K7S41GX, both worked suprisingly well, no problems or weird connector issues....
 
sinner0423 said:
So, here is what I learned today :
I bought this K7VT6, since i'm a broke fool, and it's $44 on newegg.
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fool is the operative word there....lol
 
I've used several ASRock boards and have been happy as a clam. Maybe you just got abum one, should have returned it!

They are made by Asus BTW.
 
There are plenty of good boards out there for less than $50, like the one in my sig..

~Adam
 
_Korruption_ said:
Yes. The ASRock sub-brand was introduced to compete with ECS.
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So... I assume that means they're Asus designs, except made in Elbonia instead of on the Isle of Mobo (Taiwan) to save on labor costs?

edit: Probably use locally sourced passives too... caps, resistors, inductors, etc.
 
well, of course, the old addage "you get what you pay for" applies, or does it?

I paid $50 for my ECS K7AMA. Both DDR/SDR memory slots, 4x AGP, 5 pci slots.

Solid board, I could beat this thing with a hammer and it would still work.

So, I think i'm gonna go for the ECS KT600-A board.. Cheap, and the current ECS board in my system seems to be holding up great. the KT600A has 8x agp / DDR400 support. Seems like a nice stable board considering it's around $47.
 
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