Request for opinions about ASROCK motherboards

Hello,

I am planning to buy ASROCK 775i945GZ motherboard as this is the only motherboard available in india which supports CONROE.

http://www.asrock.com/product/775i945GZ.htm

I have not heard much about ASROCK brand.

1. How is the build quality for ASROCK motherboards
2. How is the performance for ASROCK motherboards
3. This is 945G chipset, will it be enough for conroe or conroe will need 965 or 975 chipsets for offering good performance.
4. Should I wait for better motherboards. I am in urgent need to buy a system but want to ensure the upgrade path is there.
5. Another concern is that it only supports DDR2-533.

My opinion is that ASROCK boards suck and/or blow and they can fall off the Earth and I will not miss them not ever in 1000000000001 years and if I live that long I will most likely think that ASROCK still sucks and/or blows depending on how I look at it!

realiable, cheap boards that can overclock but mis a few features.... i owned a few for 5years and didnt have any problems.

ASRock is a good low end brand.

i have the 939 dual sata 2 with an x2 4800+, havent really sat down and oc'd it yet but the first trial run punched it to 3 ghz with minor instabilities, note that that run was with all stock voltage settings and now real tweaking of my memory

the nice thing about the boards is that since they are kind of low end, they dont have a lot of crap on the mobo that can hinder your oc, and most importantly, the power circuits are VERY easy to figure out for volt modding, which will really help you oc the thing to the nth degree

Why don't you just "pinmod" the p4? That's what I did on my Asrock 775i65G

To the author: I just starting using my Asrock board, but I must say the quality is top notch. It is a very stable board as well. One thing I've noticed is that Asrock motherboards do not offer vcore adjustment through the bios (not a huge problem as I just pinmod). Also, my Asrock mobo does not offer any power-saving features through the bios either. That means that standby will continue to run the cpu fan. I really hate that. Other than those two drawbacks my Asrock 775i65G board is very nice. I'm using a D 805 2.66 GHz undervolted to 1.125 volts. I also supports Conroe btw, as long as it's revision 2.0 or above (unfortunately I received an old-stock unit, rev1.03). I have Windows MCE 2005 installed on it and haven't ran into a problem yet. I think the reason this Asrock board is so stable is that it's based on Intel's 865 chipset.

This should get you started:

http://translate.google.com/transl [...] t%3D162226

I used invisible tape to cover up a couple of the gold "circles" on the back of the cpu to achieve my undervolt (just cut out a VERY small square and stick it on top of the contact), specifically pins VID3 and VID2, resulting in 1.125 volts. To overvolt, some pins may have to "jumpered" instead of isolated. If you use some "liquid solder" stuff, you can connect a low pin to a high pin to make them both low. Using it on the back of the cpu would be the easiest, but would definitely void the warranty and will probably be more or less permanent. Defroster repair stuff may also work, and it is fairly easy to scrape off later.