What is everyones opinion on Asrock?
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jimthenagual
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Those are both really good motherboards. I tend to go Asus first, then Asrock (my current system is Asrock) then Gigabyte.
I'm a big fan of ASRock personally. You get fantastic features for the price and I've bought quite a lot of their boards now (must be over 6 by now) and have never had any issues. I know others have had different experiences and 6 boards is hardly sufficient to draw global comparisons, but personally they're my go-to brand because of what you get for the money.
The Killer stuff, on the other hand, I would pay money to avoid. It's all a bit of con that a NIC can reduce ping times... as if how you prioritise traffic on your gigabit local network and maybe ~50ft of cable can make a difference to the hundreds (thousands?) of miles of cable running at much lower bandwidths between your property and the servers you're talking to. Plus, I've seen heaps of forum posts with issues with Killer networking stuff.
The upper-mid range motherboard of choice for me at the moment is the ASRock Extreme 6. It's got an Intel NIC (and a second Realtec NIC) which I'd PAY money to take over a Killer solution, AND it's got the PCIE 3.0 x4 M.2 slot, which makes crazy high speed storage an option in future. That'd be my pick personally.
The Gigabyte is good motherboard too though.
The Killer stuff, on the other hand, I would pay money to avoid. It's all a bit of con that a NIC can reduce ping times... as if how you prioritise traffic on your gigabit local network and maybe ~50ft of cable can make a difference to the hundreds (thousands?) of miles of cable running at much lower bandwidths between your property and the servers you're talking to. Plus, I've seen heaps of forum posts with issues with Killer networking stuff.
The upper-mid range motherboard of choice for me at the moment is the ASRock Extreme 6. It's got an Intel NIC (and a second Realtec NIC) which I'd PAY money to take over a Killer solution, AND it's got the PCIE 3.0 x4 M.2 slot, which makes crazy high speed storage an option in future. That'd be my pick personally.
The Gigabyte is good motherboard too though.
Tradesman1
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Go for the Killer, great mobo, OCs well, handles DRAM well, good BIOS.....The Rock's my number 2 right now, they were my #1 with the Z77 mobos, but Asus has edged them out with Z87 and 97
AdmiralDonut
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As an owner of an MSI motherboard with a "Killer" NIC I could not agree more. The NIC is just a rebranded Qualcomm Atheros NIC with some custom drivers. The first thing I did was to remove the Killer software and then replace the crap drivers with some proper Atheros ones. After that it's been fine. I've also owned dozens of ASRock boards over the years and never had a fault develop on any of them, though I do know of one or two people who have.
Overall ASRock is a decent brand much like Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI. In the end the only real difference is the aesthetics and your budget.
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