In article , John
Rumm scribeth thus
On 21/12/2012 18:23, David WE Roberts wrote:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...
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If its been installed in an Asrock motherboard rather than the Asus
one you might have specced yourself, then yes.
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Interested that you seem to dislike AsRock - care to expand further?
I have an AsRock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen3

Dislike would be way too strong... "Leaning toward others in preference"
might be closer

(to be fair - the point I was making was that if you cut corners on
motherboard quality you lower the overall system reliability even if the
CPU is identical - and asrock was just the first name that came to mind
in the slightly cheaper end of the market)

I have had a pretty good experience with boards by asus - and hence they
are what I use in my own systems. Some of the others also offer good
facilities / price points etc, and I would certainly consider them -
asrock and MSI being examples. However IME they have not been quite as
reliable. I used to like gigabyte years ago for the feature set etc, but
got burned by rather too many failures and slightly suspect BIOS issues
for my liking)



OOI, I just had a look through the dead mobo pile I have waiting for
when I can be bothered to re-cap them - 3 MSI, one Acer, and one Biostar
- no asrock there at the moment ;-) (the MSI ones I may repair since
they have reasonably decent C2D E7600 CPUs and 4GB RAM - the others are
probably not worth it)



Are they really worth the time re-capping these days?..

As duff caps are the main source of MB failures, but that factory I
believe has either closed or they have now re instated the missing
ingredient!...

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Tony Sayer