hello can anyone tell me why the above mention grafic card cant work with the above mention motherboard?? or if it can....can someone tell me how to install the grafics card.........thanks
I recently upgraded one of my systems to an As-Rock board with an E4400. Overclocking wasn't too bad - it could easily run the E4400 at 2.8 Ghz. However the boartd had weird quirks. It would not read my SATA HDD, which was the biggest issue. It also has trouble cold-booting, and the computer must be booted twice to start. Also, there are random trouble with a few old games (such as Red Alert 2) which will often crash, but run fine on my other systems. It's OK for a spare computer, but I wouldn't use it for my main rig. Also, the automatic speed control for the cpu fan has never worked right on my motherboard.
Is your board 4CoreDual-VSTA, or other ASRock boards? (I am planning to get the E4400 and 4CoreDual-VSTA and overclock too.) Does it have the same problems at stock speed and/or 266FSB (that's the first thing I'd want to check, to see if the problem is related to overclocking)?
Re: "System Platform Drivers Intel - 8.1.1.1010".
Shouldn't that be: VIA chipset drivers, instead of Intel?
Might also mention whether Win98SE can be installed and run, when testing with DDR/AGP? For those gamers dual-booting into the older Windows version. Can Win98SE utilize all 4 cores of a Quad-core CPU? Or even both cores of a dual-core CPU?
ASRock has to joking. What tech person in their right mind is going to buy something half in the past and half in the future? The two SATA ports alone is enough to realize this thing will be outdated very quickly and you'll be buying another motherboard. I've seen some illogical products in my time. This may not be the worse concept of a motherboard for those not wanting to upgrade all their components, but there has definitely been some off-the-wall, fill-in-marketing-gap products out there (first thing comes to mind is the Intel Pentium D 805). Kudos to ASRock for taking advantage is cheapskates. Remember, it costs more in the long run doing the wrong thing (not upgrading) than doing the right thing (upgrading and moving forward with technology).
This may not be the worse concept of a motherboard for those not wanting to upgrade all their components
Exactly; this board is good for those who want to carry over their DDR memory and AGP adapter from their old system. And it (at least its predecessor) can overclock a E2140/E2160/E4300/E4400 about 50%. If one has no need to reuse the memory and AGP adapter then I agree there are better choices (e.g. ASRock 1333FSB motherboards if one still wants to go cheap).
board is great if you are interested in a core 2 duo system on a budget
i upgraded from AMD socket 754 system to ASROCK and e4300 for around $165
can't beat the price for a c2d system - all my parts including power supply work with the board so i didn't have to "upgrade" from IDE HDD to SATA HDD or "upgrade" from IDE optical to SATA optical or "upgrade" from AGP to PCIE. I put upgrade in quotes becuase if i had spent money on 2 new SATA drives and the same graphics card except PCIE instead of AGP i don't think i would have ANY REAL performance gains and i would be out plenty of money!
agree completely with the article i did a quake 4 benchmark at very CPU dependent settings and the c2d e4300 blew away my socket 754 3000+, and because this board supports the older (although not necessarily any slower) interfaces, i didn't have to spend much at all.
You should be able to set the FSB of the motherboard to 266, for an instant and easy overlock to 2.4 Ghz. The processor will easily run at that speed at stock voltage.
Lets not forget about product support; I have recently purchased an Asrock board, and noticed that while twiddling my thumbs waiting for driver/BIOS updates, the motherboard seemed to have some unusual behavior, and it was not a very stable, or overclockable board. A few more months of thumb twiddling, and I noticed that 'holding my breathe' may give better results towards recieving newer drivers, or BIOS updates. Plus, the one major issue I had with this board required me placing a phone call initially, and then the person I spoke with mroe than gladly gave me an email address to communicate wit him directly. The end result was that while he did seem to try very hard in solving my problem (simply trying to boot from a SATA drive . . .), I had to resort to trial and error to fix the problem myself.
I have since ditched that motherbaord, and gave up on driver / BIOS updates, and could not be happier with my decission, except that I could have saved myself $70 usd by completely bypassing that utter complete waste of hardware known as an Asrock motherboard. Whats more, the replacement is an exceptional motherboard, with loads of features (for the price), and only cost $15 more than the Asrock board I bought.
They say that hind sight is always 20/20, and in my case here, I would have to say that fore sight is as well (as I will never purchase another motherboard from Asrock again).
14 years later this main board is selling around around at 3x (or more) the price for the rest of the "top" main boards it was compared to. It is harder and harder to find one and the price for it it's skyrocketing by the day. More many are still in perfect working conditions despite the original price...
Why? Time proved you are lacking imagination when Asrock did not! Many collectors out-here use this MB to test a AGP-pciex GPUs, DDR-DDR2 and SATA-IDE hdd before using them to restore other systems. The fact you can do this with only one MB is still amassing 14 years later... and prove you where terribly wrong :)
Why is it that when you guys test only Intel procs you do the multitasking tests, but when there is a mix of Intel/AMD this is conveniently dropped and only single program performance is measured?
It would be great if you guys could benchmark Maya or 3DS Max. That would give us an idea of whether or not this board would be a good candidate for a cheap render box.
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kings121 - Sunday, November 30, 2008 - link
hello can anyone tell me why the above mention grafic card cant work with the above mention motherboard?? or if it can....can someone tell me how to install the grafics card.........thankswaintin for a speedy reply
moobaaa - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
hello anyone home still waitin to see the updated article thxs maybeppppp - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - link
Hey guys,where is the updated review with the latest bios and Intel q6600 fsb you promised me some months ago?
kmmatney - Sunday, July 1, 2007 - link
I recently upgraded one of my systems to an As-Rock board with an E4400. Overclocking wasn't too bad - it could easily run the E4400 at 2.8 Ghz. However the boartd had weird quirks. It would not read my SATA HDD, which was the biggest issue. It also has trouble cold-booting, and the computer must be booted twice to start. Also, there are random trouble with a few old games (such as Red Alert 2) which will often crash, but run fine on my other systems. It's OK for a spare computer, but I wouldn't use it for my main rig. Also, the automatic speed control for the cpu fan has never worked right on my motherboard.ssiu - Friday, July 6, 2007 - link
Is your board 4CoreDual-VSTA, or other ASRock boards? (I am planning to get the E4400 and 4CoreDual-VSTA and overclock too.) Does it have the same problems at stock speed and/or 266FSB (that's the first thing I'd want to check, to see if the problem is related to overclocking)?vailr - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Re: "System Platform Drivers Intel - 8.1.1.1010".Shouldn't that be: VIA chipset drivers, instead of Intel?
Might also mention whether Win98SE can be installed and run, when testing with DDR/AGP? For those gamers dual-booting into the older Windows version. Can Win98SE utilize all 4 cores of a Quad-core CPU? Or even both cores of a dual-core CPU?
mongo lloyd - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Win9x has absolutely NO support for any kind of multiprocessor solution, neither dual/quad core, nor SMP.vailr - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Also, WinRar is currently at version 3.70:http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm">http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm
SunAngel - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
ASRock has to joking. What tech person in their right mind is going to buy something half in the past and half in the future? The two SATA ports alone is enough to realize this thing will be outdated very quickly and you'll be buying another motherboard. I've seen some illogical products in my time. This may not be the worse concept of a motherboard for those not wanting to upgrade all their components, but there has definitely been some off-the-wall, fill-in-marketing-gap products out there (first thing comes to mind is the Intel Pentium D 805). Kudos to ASRock for taking advantage is cheapskates. Remember, it costs more in the long run doing the wrong thing (not upgrading) than doing the right thing (upgrading and moving forward with technology).ssiu - Friday, July 6, 2007 - link
This may not be the worse concept of a motherboard for those not wanting to upgrade all their componentsExactly; this board is good for those who want to carry over their DDR memory and AGP adapter from their old system. And it (at least its predecessor) can overclock a E2140/E2160/E4300/E4400 about 50%. If one has no need to reuse the memory and AGP adapter then I agree there are better choices (e.g. ASRock 1333FSB motherboards if one still wants to go cheap).
strafejumper - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
board is great if you are interested in a core 2 duo system on a budgeti upgraded from AMD socket 754 system to ASROCK and e4300 for around $165
can't beat the price for a c2d system - all my parts including power supply work with the board so i didn't have to "upgrade" from IDE HDD to SATA HDD or "upgrade" from IDE optical to SATA optical or "upgrade" from AGP to PCIE. I put upgrade in quotes becuase if i had spent money on 2 new SATA drives and the same graphics card except PCIE instead of AGP i don't think i would have ANY REAL performance gains and i would be out plenty of money!
agree completely with the article i did a quake 4 benchmark at very CPU dependent settings and the c2d e4300 blew away my socket 754 3000+, and because this board supports the older (although not necessarily any slower) interfaces, i didn't have to spend much at all.
kmmatney - Sunday, July 1, 2007 - link
You should be able to set the FSB of the motherboard to 266, for an instant and easy overlock to 2.4 Ghz. The processor will easily run at that speed at stock voltage.yyrkoon - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Lets not forget about product support; I have recently purchased an Asrock board, and noticed that while twiddling my thumbs waiting for driver/BIOS updates, the motherboard seemed to have some unusual behavior, and it was not a very stable, or overclockable board. A few more months of thumb twiddling, and I noticed that 'holding my breathe' may give better results towards recieving newer drivers, or BIOS updates. Plus, the one major issue I had with this board required me placing a phone call initially, and then the person I spoke with mroe than gladly gave me an email address to communicate wit him directly. The end result was that while he did seem to try very hard in solving my problem (simply trying to boot from a SATA drive . . .), I had to resort to trial and error to fix the problem myself.I have since ditched that motherbaord, and gave up on driver / BIOS updates, and could not be happier with my decission, except that I could have saved myself $70 usd by completely bypassing that utter complete waste of hardware known as an Asrock motherboard. Whats more, the replacement is an exceptional motherboard, with loads of features (for the price), and only cost $15 more than the Asrock board I bought.
They say that hind sight is always 20/20, and in my case here, I would have to say that fore sight is as well (as I will never purchase another motherboard from Asrock again).
ergenius - Sunday, May 2, 2021 - link
14 years later this main board is selling around around at 3x (or more) the price for the rest of the "top" main boards it was compared to. It is harder and harder to find one and the price for it it's skyrocketing by the day. More many are still in perfect working conditions despite the original price...Why? Time proved you are lacking imagination when Asrock did not! Many collectors out-here use this MB to test a AGP-pciex GPUs, DDR-DDR2 and SATA-IDE hdd before using them to restore other systems. The fact you can do this with only one MB is still amassing 14 years later... and prove you where terribly wrong :)
DeepThought86 - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
Why is it that when you guys test only Intel procs you do the multitasking tests, but when there is a mix of Intel/AMD this is conveniently dropped and only single program performance is measured?Very suspicious
slatr - Friday, June 29, 2007 - link
It would be great if you guys could benchmark Maya or 3DS Max. That would give us an idea of whether or not this board would be a good candidate for a cheap render box.