ASRock N68C-GS FX AM3+ NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: cheap.

Cons: DIED AFTER ONE WEEK

Other Thoughts: changed a setting in the bios, screen scrambled, and that was it. machine powered up after that, but no post. tried clearing cmos, a different cpu, memory, power supply, all the standard tricks, no dice. common problem from what i'm reading in support forums with this board, wish i'd done my homework better... oh well, i should have stuck with asus, and i am from now on.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps;
Unplug the power cord.
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan as well
Test with single memory module (non-ECC, un-buffered), try with another known good memory if its same issue.
Remove the VGA card (if applied), plug monitor to onboard Video
Plug the power cord.
Turn the power on to check if its get the screen display.
If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: When it came it worked so that's always a plus, it was fairly easy to find all the slots

Cons: No HDMI port

Pros: Inexpensive, specifications fit my needs.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: This board has four memory slots: Two are DDR2 and two are DDR3. These chips don't work together.

Pros: Full featured and extremely cheap.
The Bios isn't packed with useless bloat.
Runs low power chips and unlocks them (Sempron)
Compatible with a wide array of hardware.

Cons: No hdmi out on built in video card.
Ubuntu 13 does not seem to play nicely with the built in videocard. It will work, however, all of the proprietary drivers cause the Unity window manager to run laggy. And if you use the open source driver polling the vga for things like driver settings in the control panel cause the whole display to garble up. Very flakey.

Other Thoughts: I feel compelled to give my experience after so many others have slammed this board. I haven't done a new system build in 15 years and I was shocked at how easily this came together. This board is one part that I didn't get off of newegg. If others want to follow after me here is what I used:

-Topower case with built in 300W power supply.
-Sempron 145
-8gig kingston ddr3 1333 ram
-250g 7200rpm SATA hard drive
-Nvidia 9600GT pci express video card.

The video card and hard disk I got cheap off of auctions. With a build centered around one of the new FM1 chips and the built in Radeon GPU's I could have had similar results at the same price point. However, going this route and using the 9600GT, I still have a videocard with a large amount of dedicated ddr3 memory. Also, being an older card it is well supported in linux.

The Asrock board is working great so far. I was able to unlock the second core on my Sempron 145 and now I'm running 64bit dual core. Initially the board detected my memory as 1066. This was easily changed to 1333 in the bios.

I feel that overall this is a great board and I will definitely by from ASrock in the future.

Pros: The board did not burn up. Newegg got it to me cheap and fast.

Cons: I got this board to use my 3.6GHz AM2 processor on, and my 4G memory. It did not like my memory, so I thought I would just keep the board and get new memory and a new CPU. Finally found some memory that was compatible and then started looking for a CPU that was on ASROCK's approved list. Well long story short: Newegg does not carry any CPU that is on ASROCK's approved source list.that is over 3 GHz. So if I want to use this board I have to gamble that a non approved CPU will work. I really hate that.

Other Thoughts: Before buying this board look at ASROCK's approved CPU and Memory list to make sure what you have or what you want to use will work. Also note this board will only supply power up to 95W for the CPU.

Pros: affordable price.
I bought this to replace a old hp I had setting around in the closet because the hp a67020f had bad mobo never buying hp again.
everything from the old hp fit into this mobo except that I only can use two ddr slots. I was able to used all stock parts from old hp.
probally need to replace 3 pin cpu fan because it is running loud.

Cons: HD onboard does not work! for me need help email me at dawrongsoeun@yahoo.com subject motherboard. if you can help me
I tried the following before I gave up. I download latest driver from asrock did not work, I used cd from to install driver still no sound. I let window update to find one, no help I probally have to buy a sound card.

Other Thoughts: this is my rig
mobo: asrock n68c-gs fx
cpu: amd phenom x4 64bit
hard drive: samsung 640 gb sata drive
graphics: onboard mobo
ram: 4 x 2 gb ddr sd ramm at 800 mhz
window 7 ultimate 64bit

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

Thank you for your purchase and review. Please download and install the VIA audio driver at link "http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp" to check if it's solved.
If you have any technical questions or warranty issues please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Did not arrive DOA. You won't find this on the Newegg site, but this board supports AM3,AM2+/AM2 processors which includes my ancient Athlon 64x2 Dual Core processor.

Cons: Only two of the four slots is DDR2, being a micro board, lacks a lot of additional slots I am used to.

Other Thoughts: Got the Asrock N68C-GS installed in my case. I had an old Athlon 64x2 Dual Core processor that I wanted to use (my Foxconn N570SM2AA-8EKRS2H bit the dust) and the board took it and my DDR 2 ram sticks with no problems. Windows 8 was up and running an minutes. Great little board – hope to have no problems in the future.

Pros: Good upgrade board you can use good old equipment and newer prossors and ram

Cons: Slower front side bus speed for newer chips if Asrock would speed this up they would corner the market on rebuild boards, Asrock fetures do not work, The Keyboard and mouse turn on that a lot of us buy Asrocks for don't work with windows 7 even when I checked jumpers no effect.

Other Thoughts: Use newegg Power supply calculator it supprised me I had a 430 watt PS and with the chip it calculated out to 480 watt bought 550 watt PS no problem this kept me from having another DOA like I seen in the reviews on this board.

Pros: None

Cons: Don not buy - my board was dead on arrival

Other Thoughts: Board was what I wanted, for a older system. Worked for about 30 secs smell of burning - dead

Pros: Inexpensive, works with Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), compatible with old PATA drives

Cons: Video driver does not display correct resolution for Ubuntu boot-up splash screen (but no deductions because, hey, it's just a splash screen).

Other Thoughts: Bought this with an Athalon II x2 to replace a dying HP Intel Core2 Mobo, reused everything in the HP box except the Mobo, processor, and memory (including PATA drives). Works great as a general-purpose basement/guest computer doubling as a home file server. Running Ubuntu 12.04.