ASRock Mobo 2000FSB is cheap - a bad brand??

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What do ppl think of this mobo please? It's relatively cheap but does a high FSb and I want to OC.

Asrock P45TurboTwins2000, iP45, S 775, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR2/DDR3 1333/1066, SATA II SATA RAID, ATX

The specs are quoted as:

1. LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors
2. All Solid Capacitor design (100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors)
3. Intel® P45 + ICH10 Chipsets
4. Compatible with FSB2000/1600/1333/1066/800 MHz
5. Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333/1066 (4 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 8GB and Dual Channel DDR2 1066/800/667 (2 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 4GB

I understand it's good enough to overclock a 8500 to beyond 4GHz?

Why do the expensive x38 chipsets (which are supposedly able to OC well) only quote a FSB of 1333!

Why is this cheaper one able to do 2000?

Is ASRock a cheap make?

And so what if a mobo is cheap... if it meets certain specs should it matter?

Please help I'm totallyu confused as to how such a cheap mobo can do a higher FSB than much more expensive models

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I have 2 asrock boards, the g43 fullhd and p45ts-r. Both run fine, but for some reason, refuse to post with my copper tape modded e4300. It's the only complaint I have about the boards. I'm too lazy to scrape off the copper tape to try higher overclocking, so I will wait for my compaq board (which runs the e4300 perfectly at 1066 fsb without any bios changes) to die before using the asrocks. The p45 is nice; has 4 ddr2 slots (which I filled with 2 different brands of pc5300) and 2 ddr3 slots for upgradability later on. The p45 works nicely as my backup board on a 2nd system with celeron 430. As far as overclocking ability, I wouldn't believe anyone as to one board being better than another, unless they've tried the same cpu on 2 different boards.