Plank of the week award.

[leejc73]

I would like to nominate myself for the above award on the grounds of not reading an item description well enough.

It appears that I've bought the performance variant of a well known and hated motherboard rather than the professional version. So now have my 2600k & 16Gb 1600 vengeance ram sitting patiently waiting for a home........Bugger

Yes it is the assrock board, I'm going red and black and it was a pure appearance decision.

F@*k my luck.

 

[yassarikhan786]

It is vital that you thoroughly research what parts you are possibly going to use before purchasing. I hope you have learnt a valuable lesson mate.

You are indeed the Plank of the week. Just Kidding mate and hope you find a nice new home for your parts.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Return it. Never buy anything with an asrock badge no matter what gaming tw@ts face they put on it to try and make sales.

 

[leejc73]

I hate the marketing as well but a couple of factors pushed me on to this board.

I like the 16 + 2 power, and the look of the board were the major factors. My xspc 360 is running red coolant and the vengeance is red. I thought it sat best in the Haf X case I've got. If it's totally crap performance wise I might swap it out for a rog board but I've had real issues getting stable decent overclocks out of a maximus II gene. Although now thinking it could be down to the 800 MHz OCZ platinum ram.

I hope not to be in and out of the bios too often, if a can get 4.8 stable then it will stay like that until it sets itself on fire.

 

[Scoob]

I didn't realise that AsRock had such a bad reputation, I usually stick to Asus myself as have had consistantly good experiences with them.

Remember, you have the 7 day (I think) "I just don't want it after all" distance selling clause on your side...

Scoob.

 

[leejc73]

It's being returned. I usually bought budget boards think I've had ecs, biostar, foxconn, msi, intel, the gene 2 was the first performance board I bought but it was time to switch to 1155.

 

[Lollipop]

I would like to nominate myself for the above award on the grounds of not reading an item description well enough.

It appears that I've bought the performance variant of a well known and hated motherboard rather than the professional version. So now have my 2600k & 16Gb 1600 vengeance ram sitting patiently waiting for a home........Bugger

Yes it is the assrock board, I'm going red and black and it was a pure appearance decision.

F@*k my luck.

 

[Bocephus]

you do know that ASUS make a red and black Mobo right? Rampage and crosshair 4 & 5. The crosshair is AMD CPU Mobo which is a win-win for me.

The rampage is an intel 1366 CPU Mobo...but then again intel is way over priced for me.

Either way you would get performance and the look you were going for however the Rampage, because of intel CPU prices, would end up more expensive than the crosshair AMD CPU Mobo

 

[Luger718]

never thought ASrock was that bad

didnt know they were on Toms shit list lol

they have been stepping their game up though

 

[leejc73]

I'm currently running a Q9550 in an Asus maximus II gene and although completely stable as standard it changes it's mind on what's a workable overclock on a daily basis. So haven't been that impressed with it. I've used an asrock board before, not a high end board but it was stable and had all the bits I needed.

I do agree that the marketing of the asrock board is over the top but the rog boards aren't exactly subtle.

Decided on the asrock for the 12+2 power phasing and the appearance, it also does everything I wanted it too. If it's a rubbish board I'll look at changing it but thought I should give it a try first.