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Ah, I didn't know ASRock wasn't owned by Asus anymore. That explains their poor showing in reviews lately.
Why do Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc. have two brands of cars outside of Japan? Same reason why. In Japan, you'll find Acura (Honda), Lexus (Toyota), Infiniti (Nissan) etc. just sold under the normal brands instead of the prestige brands.
Why do Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc. have two brands of cars outside of Japan? Same reason why. In Japan, you'll find Acura (Honda), Lexus (Toyota), Infiniti (Nissan) etc. just sold under the normal brands instead of the prestige brands.
Maybe it's a USA thing, but domestic manufacturers do the same thing...
Chevrolet has Buick, Pontiac and Cadillac
Ford has Mercury and Lincoln
Chrysler has Jeep and Dodge
(all 3 actually own more car brands, but those are the most known)
from wikipedia.
ASRock was originally spun off from Asus in 2002 in order to compete with companies like ECS and Foxconn for the commodity OEM market. Since then, however, ASRock has also gained momentum in the DIY sector and plans for moving the company upstream began in 2007 following a successful IPO on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.[1]
ASRock has garnered a reputation for good value (cost/performance) from tech websites,[2] including awards and recommendations for an array of products.[3][4]
ASRock is currently owned by Pegatron Corporation.
The thing that really put ASrock ont he map was the experimental boards they released. They did ones that offered backwards compatibility. both types of ram, or video slots on the same board.
And I could have sworn I saw something about a P67 motherboard that used an LGA1156 CPU. So they do some crazy, experimental stuff...
Asrock is decent but if you care about warranty I'd be wary: http://www.asrock.com/Support/index.asp?cat=RMA
Seems like you'd have to go through a lot of trouble just to RMA if you ever needed that.
I read a ton of reviews, and I have yet to see anyone complain about an RMA costing them $35. Shipping charge, sure, that's industry standard (unless you are half-decent at vocalizing a complaint without pissing off whoever you are talking to)... I'm pretty sure they don't follow that return policy unless you are a real PIA. Just look at Newegg, and the people who write reviews about RMAs, sure, they aren't happy, but they would be quick to point out a $35 charge if there was one...
I read a ton of reviews, and I have yet to see anyone complain about an RMA costing them $35. Shipping charge, sure, that's industry standard (unless you are half-decent at vocalizing a complaint without pissing off whoever you are talking to)... I'm pretty sure they don't follow that return policy unless you are a real PIA. Just look at Newegg, and the people who write reviews about RMAs, sure, they aren't happy, but they would be quick to point out a $35 charge if there was one...
And I could have sworn I saw something about a P67 motherboard that used an LGA1156 CPU. So they do some crazy, experimental stuff...
Just from reading their policy it just seems like they don't want the hassles of dealing with end-user RMAs and instead just point you to the retailer/e-tailer where the product was purchased.
Bought 2 Asrock p67 extreme4 gen3, both of them were defective so I just purchased an asus board. Did not know they were the same company. This sucks
Pegatron was incorporated on June 27, 2007 as a subsidiary of its then parent company, Asustek (or more commonly known as its brand name "Asus").[8] Asustek wanted to increase its competitiveness by dividing its business into specialized work forces and establishing separate companies for each business unit. Pegatron was formed as a design and manufacturing service provider of computer-related products that had previously been operated by Asustek.
In January 2010, Pegatron's then parent company Asustek announced a plan to spin off and to transfer its long term equity investment in Pegatron to its wholly owned subsidiary, Pegatron International Investment Co., Ltd. On June 10, 2010, Pegatron merged with Pegatron International, and Pegatron has since been the surviving spin off independent company.[9]
For starters the Design teams for the two were always different.
^this is what put ASRock on the board. Back in the 939 days, they offered some unique and VERY versatile boards.
Wasnt there one 939 board that you could get a daughter board for and run DDR2?
But the biggest feature of that board was the ULi 1695 Chipset. That chipset was higher performing than the nVidia nForce 3 & 4
But the biggest feature of that board was the ULi 1695 Chipset. That chipset was higher performing than the nVidia nForce 3 & 4, and it offered native AGP8x and PCIe 16x slots. This allowed me to upgrade my PC and keep my AGP8x X800 XT graphics card and later upgrade to a 8800GTS.
How ironic it was when Nvidia bought out ULi a year or two after the release of that card.
Actually, the some of best performing S939 boards were made by DFI. The SLi Venus (which was a limited board with full solid caps), then the SLi-DR and the Infinity. They had the best BIOS and some of the best built. Those ULi chipsets were good, but they were more suited for budget than high-end. Most high-end S939 boards were NF4.