post if you got a Asrock Dual SATA2

SniperDaws

Im after getting one and a 3500+ AMD64, can you let me know anything about your experiences using this ULI board, ive heard good things, is it really as good as an Nforce4 board???

Cheers in Advanced

WiCz · 11-13-2005, 12:40 | posts: 153 | Location: Uk

Have a look at the following forum...

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ulti.../forum/30.html

Keitosha · 11-13-2005, 13:46 | posts: 4,364 | Location: Omicron Persei Windows 8 Pro WMC

The ASRock board is good till bios 1.20, where a lot of oc options were introduced, but ASRock is ****ting on his customers, because the've removed alot of OC options as of bios 1.30. Bios 1.40 is out since a week and it's no difference.

First they come with neat stuff and then they take it away from us.

I had high hopes for this board, but one thing's for sure: When i get a PCI-e board in the future, i go DFI.

WiCz · 11-13-2005, 17:17 | posts: 153 | Location: Uk

There is a guy on the forums that i posted above running his 939 dual sata @ 400 HTT.......i dunno about you but i am impressed

Asrock do not make boards for overclockers ( not so far anyway ). The 939 dual sata is a budget board as it's price indicates... £45 in the uk

The fact that you can overclock if you take the time to do it properly is just a bonus with this board.

Anarion · 11-13-2005, 17:22 | posts: 9,175 | Location: Finland

Best mobo ever made!

Keitosha · 11-13-2005, 19:03 | posts: 4,364 | Location: Omicron Persei Windows 8 Pro WMC

Quote:

Originally posted by WiCz
Asrock do not make boards for overclockers ( not so far anyway ). The 939 dual sata is a budget board as it's price indicates... £45 in the uk

I'm not asking for such reaction. The fact is this: The've made this board popular due to its good oc'ability. And that was a complete surprise. People bought this mb, because it could oc. The first bios didn't have oc options and ASRock added that in the 1.15 and 1.20 bios. Many were happy with, but with 1.30 and 1.40, ASRock removed the oc options and now we're stuck with some illusion. You think that's good? Would you like that if that happened to you?

I said it before: I'm going DFI when i get a PCI-e card.

WiCz · 11-13-2005, 19:14 | posts: 153 | Location: Uk

1. What reaction ?

2. Just stick with the earlier, more functional bioses.

3. I love my 939 Dual sata....Asrock have done absolutely nothing i didn't expect them to do

ManicOne · 11-15-2005, 10:36 | posts: 1,170 | Location: On a hill, still sniping fanbois

Got my Asrock coming this week, just have to wait till my Opteron 170 arrives......

Me getting very impatient!

dudecat64 · 11-15-2005, 11:18 | posts: 3,507 | Location: nystate

I love mine but windows is loading slow. But hech games run smooth except hlf2 but that is another issue all together. I like it and would req'd it to anyone looking for a nice cheap motherboard.

RustDust · 11-15-2005, 23:12 | posts: 69 | Location: Asheville, NC USofA

Bitchin' about the Bios....where is that little roll the eyes thing...use the the version that works best for you, you DON'T have to use the latest version.
"The've made this board popular due to its good oc'ability", who is they?

KNIFE · 11-15-2005, 23:39 | posts: 273 | Location: uk

I've had mine a month and still cant get it to work

But hopefully will make some head way just keep getting a dam irql not less or equal error message when installing windows.
I have the 1.40 bios on mine but it seems to have the overclocking option unless they just dummy settings.

11-16-2005, 05:40 | posts: n/a

gonne get mine in about 2 days with opteron 146 939

dudecat64 · 11-16-2005, 07:30 | posts: 3,507 | Location: nystate

Best of luck with that opteron setup. I have mine running at 2.4ghz and no problems at. I like this motherboard and It is the only motherboard out of three I have owned that can run my memory at ddr400 speeds or higher. I think mine is running at pc3700 speeds.

Daly · 11-17-2005, 02:48 | posts: 221 | Location: Southwest

Ive got mine on the way (should be here tommorow!) with a new AMD 4000+ and 2 gigs of Corsair (2x1G sticks). Cant wait!

I always get a little anxious when building a whole new system. Ive only done it a few times with (fortunately) very little problems.

Besides...with guru3d and newegg how can you go wrong?

11-22-2005, 09:52 | posts: n/a

slower than my nforce2 ultra mobo..

Spin_Cykle · 11-23-2005, 01:44 | posts: 144 | Location: Phoenix, Arizona

I love my board. I am not a die hard overclocker mainly because i dont know what the hell im doing and i dont want to fry anything. You can see my build on the right. Can you guys make some RAM reccomendations. I was thinking about going with OCZ Platnuim RAM (2 gigs). Other than my RAM slowing down my processor, the computer handles pretty much anything i throw at it. BF2, F.E.A.R, and HL2 run great.

PaladinJ · 11-23-2005, 01:51 | posts: 71 | Location: Texas

I love mine too, no problems whatsoever

destroyah3034 · 11-24-2005, 07:16 | posts: 124 | Location: Norwalk, California

So far no problems with mine either.

The 1.40 bios isn't all that bad, just some would want to keep the volt mods in place, but there are some that are casual overclockers like me. It can take 250 htt pretty well, and thats all I need now anyways.

Will try to get to 266 htt soon on default voltage

Oh I forgot to mention, is it just me, or is raid performance a bit slow because of the high cpu usage (30% plus)?

Paul L · 11-24-2005, 15:56 | posts: 1,117 | Location: Toy Town, UK

I might get this board.. & I'll turn off the parrallel/serial ports & maybee get irq of 5 for my main dervices.

kitch9 · 11-28-2005, 10:46 | posts: 1,855 | Location: Doncaster, England

Quote:

Originally posted by destroyah3034
So far no problems with mine either.

The 1.40 bios isn't all that bad, just some would want to keep the volt mods in place, but there are some that are casual overclockers like me. It can take 250 htt pretty well, and thats all I need now anyways.

Will try to get to 266 htt soon on default voltage

Oh I forgot to mention, is it just me, or is raid performance a bit slow because of the high cpu usage (30% plus)?

I could do with some detailed info on the cpu usage of RAID too......

Rabid Squirrel · 11-29-2005, 17:11 | posts: 142 | Location: Samsung 940B 19" LCD

I love mine. Initially had some compatibility problems with a gigabyte wireless card, but after replacing that, everything works top notch, no problems whatsoever. Is incredibly fast, and rock solid.

TECH SUPPORT BLOWS FROM ASROCK.

I think they have one guy in cali taking phone calls. And he sucks.

Ardil · 11-29-2005, 23:53 | posts: 152 | Location: England

Just finished setting mine up like 10 mins ago with a 3700+ san diego, no problems at all. Even got different branded memory mixed, runs perfect at DDR400.

Rabid Squirrel · 11-30-2005, 01:24 | posts: 142 | Location: Samsung 940B 19" LCD

Good to hear. Congrats. Join the growing ASROCK fan club.

danylati · 11-30-2005, 02:54 | posts: 126 | Location: Mexico City

tomorrow come my new asrock dual sata2, and i buy a venice 3200+ or 3500+

nextwish · 12-06-2005, 15:07 | posts: 71

i got one week ago, great budge board, it got AGP+PCIe, future CPU socket, awesome ocability, and boost my PC2700 PC3200 mixed ram up to 210mhz @ 2.5! seriously its not the best mobo in the market, dont have the insane features, but keep in mind it is cheap budge mobo..last time i had asus a7v8x-mx-se budge mobo = troubles after troubles, and absolutely 0 ocability.