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ASRock G31M-S Intel Motherboards
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kidrupe
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
11/14/2009 9:32:30 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing board


Pros: Installed windows 7 in 25 minutes. Since then it has been rendering video at 100% cpu about 12 hours a day for the last 7 days. No crashes or complaining for a reboot. Truly amazing for the cost. Wish i would have purchased 2 of them.

Cons: Wish it had gigabit nic. Need to get the next model up to get that. My fault and not the boards for not doing the research.

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randable
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/4/2009 4:53:36 AM

Rating + 5 Rock Solid


Pros: Rock solid motherboard, I own three of these and have a great experience from each install. I use this board to do upgrades to our businesses eMachine units (never buy that junk). I deploy each unit with the Q8200 CPU and 2GB memory. The board has great features and runs sound at normal clock speeds.

Cons: Would love more detail on the hardware monitoring.

Other Thoughts: Great board, actually just got my third one, scheduled for delivery today.

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Guildar
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/24/2009 12:22:59 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent Buy!


Pros: Small, efficient, easy install, stable.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: Great for a budget build.

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Greg
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/23/2009 1:51:02 PM

Rating + 5 HTPC


Pros: This board gave me all I needed at a good price.
The board was easy to install and it worked.
Video slot does not block SATA connector - problem on many boards.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: This is my 2nd ASROCK board - and I am becoming a fan. So far they have been good products.

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jeremyshaw
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
10/18/2009 4:21:18 PM

Rating + 4 Nearly scared


Pros: Using for a basic folding@home system.

The motherboard wouldn't post, no matter what I tried.

I moved the sole stick of RAM into the second DIMM slot, and it works, now.
With 2 sticks, it works.
With one stick, it needs to be in slot 2.

Cons: Scared me for a long time, until I figured what was causing it to not post.

Other Thoughts: ASRock could of stated that in the manual.

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PaulC
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/8/2009 11:09:18 AM

Rating + 1 Do not Purchase


Pros: none yet, board would not post and no video out directly from the box, RMAed with newegg, hopefully the second one will work

Cons: didnt work out of box

Other Thoughts: very disappointing

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drewsdaddy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2009 5:46:06 PM

Rating + 5 excellent so far!


Pros: 4 sata ports, easy set up (they say 4 seconds to windows disk boot and they aren't kidding!), high speed board for low low price

Cons: can't give you any

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CAT
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
9/29/2009 6:49:15 PM

Rating + 5 Solid, Budget Board


Pros: RAM upgradable to 8 GB. No issues at all during build and start-up.

Cons: Outdated Ethernet, but I'm running it wireless anyway.

Other Thoughts: I wanted a tower to attach to the new bedroom TV but I didn't want to blow a lot of cash. This board worked out well. I'm a loyal Gigabyte builder, but I could not pass up 8 GB RAM capability for the price. This is the second of two ASRock boards that I've had success with.

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Jersey
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
9/7/2009 6:37:04 AM

Rating + 4 Good board, has fair share of pros and cons


Pros: Price! Great price, with great features to boot for said price.
up to 1600 FSB, support for 64 bit, and the 45 nm chips.
You can overclock decently with this board, I got a 2.5 ghz e5200 up to 3.5 ghz.

Cons: I have an hd4850 ati radeon card in the pci-e slot, and a soundblaster 7.1 card in the farthest down pci slot,
this leaves me with zero available slots because the video card is in the way. You could say this is a drawback of the video card, but I think were the pci-e slot on the bottom, it would have made things easier.
Also, no ability to change the Vcore, so overclocking is limited in that aspect.
The Instant On software bundled with the board sounds promising (Boot your computer in 10 seconds!) but in reality is just a piece of junk. Yes, technically it boots your computer in 10 seconds, but every time you shut it down it has to
a.) Shut down
b.) Restart and boot normally
c.) Shutdown again.
Very annoying.

Other Thoughts: The overclocking / hardware monitoring software bundled isn't bad if you're new to all those aspects.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/5/2009 8:48:29 PM

Rating + 5 Good bang for your buck


Pros: I purchased this along with a pentium dual core e5200 and ocz sli 2x2gb ram pc26400 and am very happy. The board worked perfect and had no problems booting up and using jumper overclock running 3.30ghz out the box. Perfect for Windows 7 64bit. Processor is running at 39c so i know i can do more but am happy with this setup.

Cons: Nothing yet i am very satisfied

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encrypted
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/1/2009 8:43:33 PM

Rating + 5 ASRock G31M-S LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX


Pros: Very stable board . Basic board good for a media center

Cons: Basic features
just 100 network card
got to watch this , warranty states that any returns go thru vender. I noticed newegg wanted to take out a
1 or 2 years warrenty with them for a extra cost .

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/31/2009 7:10:49 AM

Rating + 5 love it!


Pros: easy to install, very quick, exactly what i need on the cheap

Cons: non so far

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/11/2009 7:45:54 AM

Rating + 5 Works great!


Pros: lots of ports, good price, seems to work well, works with Celeron dual core CPUs too

Cons: smell out of the box nearly knocks you out, but almost all mobos are like that - no biggie

Other Thoughts: used in a customer computer new build. customer satisfied, so am I.

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SSGROCK
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/5/2009 7:32:14 PM

Rating + 5 G31M-S


Pros: This board started right up. No problems.Playing my favorite game without a hitch. COH-Opposing Fronts 60fps. at med to high settings.
ASRock G31M-S LGA 775 Intel G31 1600fsb
E1200-1.6 overclocked to 2.7
A-DATA G SEries (2x2GB) DDR2 800 Dual Channel
memory. Uses all 4 gigs.
ASUS EN8500GT TOP/HTP/256M GeForce 8500 GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3
CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2
Western Digital RE2 WD1601ABYS 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb
All software works great.
Vista Pemium 64Bit --no issues ever!
Will buy again for another build.

Cons: none

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Pdok
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/1/2009 12:21:48 PM

Rating + 2 Finicky BIOS settings, disappointing overall.


Pros: Cheap, above average range of features.

Cons: Using memory on the ASRock qualified vendor list, and an Intel C2D CPU, this board would not properly recognize the memory settings by itself. It ran just fine, but saw the 800FSB as 667FSB, and probably the timings were wrong.

I changed the memory speed and timings manually to their recommended values, and the system would fail to boot/reboot about 2 in 3 times. It would sleep and not wake up, etc. When it booted, it showed the right memory settings, but a diagnostic card showed BIOS codes where it was trying to get out of some sort of power state.
Flashing the BIOS had no effect, and I systematically went through the settings until I found a combination of power settings and memory timings that seemed to work. It has been stable for two weeks afterwards, but I can't really trust it now.

All the other system components I've tested and they're working fine, so it's not anything but the motherboard.

ASRock needs to figure this out and release a better BIOS, or something.

Other Thoughts: I build computers as a side job, and ASRock has been a good budget choice up until now, at least for the AMD CPUs. Their parent company, ASUS, has been consistently good to me.

I'm on to other manufacturers now. ASRock was good for three builds for me, but I'm not going to take any more chances on this happening again.

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xfactortype1
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/28/2009 10:31:40 AM

Rating + 5 it what it says


Pros: works right out of the box and is 64 bit compatible. drivers installed

Cons: no case speaker

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/17/2009 10:18:38 PM

Rating + 5 Still going strong after six months


Pros: I reviewed this after getting it about six months back, it still works great. I have a E2200 overclocked to 2.53GHz with 667 HyperX Kingston overclocked to 960MHz! No voltage adjustments but still good for overclocking to an extent.

Cons: finally got some of these. The onboard video is really bad, but I will put a 4670 in there soon. Hopefully that will also fix the problem of how how the northbridge gets! I have burned myself on the heatsink many times after playing STALKER SoC. the southbridge also gets extremely hot, the heatsink on it is pretty pathetic. onboard audio is junk but I have a SB Audigy. expect using custom fans on the northbridge if where you use it is over 80 degrees, or if you game on the onboard graphics.

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tim
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
7/17/2009 5:43:02 AM

Rating + 5 sweet


Pros: Got this as an open box; it was the cheapest LGA775 motherboard on newegg. Feels pretty sturdy and everything booted up on the first try. Fantastic amount of compatibility and BIOS adjustments compared to my old dell 8400 mobo! The I/O shield was missing, but hey, more airflow! This should be fairly future proof, I'm going to try in the near future to get a celeron dual core or something to replace my hot and slow P4 3.4. For a budget board this has pretty good overclocking features, which I've missed since my good old abit BH6 back in the day. Haven't tried the included software yet but it seems asrock bundled some overclocking tools / monitoring programs in here as well.

Cons: Small stuff: only one chassis fan header, only one PATA connector. No voltage adjustments for vcore, so my oc potential with a P4 is severely limited, but that's really asking a lot out of a budget board. 45nm intels go pretty high on stock volts.

Other Thoughts: I just wanted to get the last vestiges of dell out of my current cobbled-together setup, that being my old motherboard, which had leaking caps to boot :P. I used another case as dell (no surprise) used a proprietary screw layout on theirs. Sheesh. Asrock seems to be the value line of asus motherboards, which have a good rep for quality as well. I'm impressed for under thirty ducats.

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Zaap
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/10/2009 3:17:56 PM

Rating + 5 A good value


Pros: Nice quality board for this price range. A Q8200, 4GB G.SKILL 1066, and this board make for a very nice system. XP 64 and Windows 7 x64 installed without a hitch and run smooth and stable. 8GB RAM capability a plus- now if only one could get 4GB RAM sticks cheaply.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: Like others, running at stock speeds and everything is perfect.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/8/2009 11:39:10 AM

Rating + 4 Simple good board.


Pros: This board is pretty basic. Very simple. I'm using it for an HTPC.

Cons: None

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/3/2009 12:23:03 PM

Rating + 5 Good for the price


Pros: It is a great board. it can handle windows 7 build 7100 with no problems

Cons: needs more places for usb's

Other Thoughts: it works. using it now

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Chunkymonster
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/1/2009 7:44:53 AM

Rating + 5 Great budget mobo


Pros: Basis for HTPC with a Celeron E1400, 2GB of GSkill DDR2-800, and 9600GT. Plugged everything in and fired it up! Worked right away with only minimal BIOS changes. Took less than 30 minute to install XP. Boots fast, almost too fast, had to reset a few times to see whether DEL or a function key to enter BIOS; btw, it's the F2. This is my third ASRock mobo over the past few years and I have no issues with either of them. Great budget board and recommend this mobo!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Running everything at stock speeds, no oc'ing. Like other ASRock builds, this is a stable board with more than enough features for an HTPC, office, or general use machine and I expect to get several years use out o this mobo. Can't beat the price, either! Nice job ASRock!

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thezman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/26/2009 10:38:01 PM

Rating + 5 love these boards


Pros: these are fantastic low priced boards. i have used these in over 25 builds and not once had a problem or a bad board yet. honestly anyone with issues with these in not sure how...

durable, great for mild overclocking but they are cheap boards..what do you expect?

nice ram voltages up to just over 2.2v to handle any ram i have used.

so easy to set up...

been using a e5200 in most of my low budget builds and every time it clocks them to 3.33 @ 1066 fsb with only a simple swap of a jumper to the 1066 setting and anything else on auto, i overclock dfi mobo's all the time but this is so easy for low priced builds

Cons: honestly i have not found any in over 25 used. i have not had a single problem anyone has listed including audio issues.

even though i know i said it was cheap a couple more voltage options would be nice for the cpu

Other Thoughts: this is a fantastic low budget board and simply add a decent gpu like a 4850 or better to eliminate the x3100 from the equation and you have a awesome 350$ machine with the right parts..

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/19/2009 8:48:46 AM

Rating + 4 Good board


Pros: 8GB Max RAM, easy to use full featured BIOS, software control

Cons: Doesn't like the card reader in my case, causes it to hang sometimes. I switched the ports around on the board for the USB and while it works better, it still hangs. Probably the card reader's problem, but not sure why it would cause it to hang. And as others have mentioned, no PCI-E 2.0. Memory slots are kind of compressed together, too. Makes it hard to use sticks with heatsinks attached, but nonetheless possible.

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Rich
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/12/2009 8:43:36 AM

Rating + 5 Good for the price


Pros: Works as expected, Easy to use Bios. After figuring out the FSB jumpers, this board overclocks pretty easily! Can't comment on the durability yet, but the flexing it got from installing those stupid 775 cooler pushpins didn't kill it. Overall, seems like a good board for the money.

Cons: Not PCI-E2.0, but I knew that going in, so not really a con.

Other Thoughts: Won't clock my e4300 past 2.8ghz, but as that's been the case even with better mobo/ram combinations, i think I just lost the roll on this cpu, as my other e4300 hits 3.4 on air with slight voltage bump.

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docmike
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/9/2009 2:30:14 PM

Rating + 1


Pros: New egg rma'd

Cons: Thing would not boot went back to tried and true brand

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Rannox
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
5/6/2009 11:05:06 AM

Rating + 5 Its a microATX...


Pros: Great MicroATX board.

- Overclocks well
- Runs at a decent temperature
- Boots fast.
- Very Stable
- Bios has 4 user settings, and a safety reset if you fail to post

Cons: - BIOS may be hard to understand for novice users
- Jumpers for FSB are difficult to change if you have large hands and no teasers. (not enough to lose an egg)

Other Thoughts: Some people state that it needs more RAM slots... CMON! its a microATX, its a small form factor, it can only hold 2 slots.

Also for those people complaining about overclocking... I have a 1.8ghz celeron with 800fsb running at 1066 fsb, and 3ghz.


Don't knock a product if you lack the tech knowledge of a poorley educated wildabeast.

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skullnxbones
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/27/2009 6:07:40 AM

Rating + 1 Caution


Pros: Beautiful Board Easy to install clearly marked

Cons: Arrived DOA could not boot or access bios Despite Trying several Compatable Processors and Ram Configurations as specified per the manual and manufacurers website.

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Rdlngs
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/24/2009 6:43:07 PM

Rating + 3 Decent Board


Pros: Pretty solid board. Needed one that supported DDR2 800 RAM and had a decent FSB. This was the best one I could find for my price range so I guess it's ok.

Cons: Spent what little money I had on this board to have the integrated sound on it be completely useless. I have had Realtek Audio before, but nothing this bad. I couldn't afford to send it back to newegg for a different one, but newegg did offer me a small rebate on a sound card if I decide to get one.

Other Thoughts: Everything on the board works well except the integrated sound card. So I give this 3/5 eggs

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BigStan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/19/2009 9:21:15 PM

Rating + 4 Good cheap board


Pros: Able to do minor overclocking through AMD's overclocking utility. Great price and a solid micro board.

Cons: You can't do much with this bios as toward overclocking. You get what you pay for. I can't complain as 10% overclocking from a cheap board isn't that big a con.

Other Thoughts: I was able to get an Intel core 2 duo e6600 from 2.4 to 2.65mhz stable. Memory has to be set in bios to 2.02 volts if you do not use AMD's OverClocking utility or your memory will come up as 5.6 in Vista score. After raising my 2x2GB GSkill PC2 6400 memory's voltage the Vista score hit the max 5.9 rating.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2009 2:06:27 PM

Rating + 4 Good cheap motherboard


Pros: Low price, all the basics are there and working. I used one of these to upgrade my HTPC connecting to a 52 inch LCD TV in my living room, the small board size really worked out well for the HTPC case. With 4GB RAM, a Pentium Dual Core E5200, a Nvidia 9800GT, Vista 64 bit and a Blue Ray drive, I got all my living room entertainment center needs covered.

Cons: Could use more RAM slots, not a tweaker's board

Other Thoughts: Really can't complain for the price of the board, but this board is not really suitable for over clocking or anything like that. For my use as a HTPC, I use stock speed on my CPU, RAM, and all other components, the system is stable and fast.

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razrrei
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/31/2009 10:46:13 AM

Rating + 2 Piece of shoot


Pros: energy saving boots up fast with bios update and instant boot

Cons: runs hot @ stock and doesnt oc for a dink

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Amun
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/16/2009 11:18:34 AM

Rating + 4 Great board!


Pros: Great board. Smooth, fast, and STABLE!

Cons: OC'ing from 800 to 1600 was a bit unclear. Jumpers are named weird.

Other Thoughts: Good board, weird OC'ing, but great support.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/8/2009 12:26:45 AM

Rating + 2 Not a very good board


Pros: Worked pretty well out of the box. BIOS is complete **** but I knew that going in. Runs fast.

Cons: Sound card on the board I received was either faulty or the onboard sound card is horribly bad. Same with the Ethernet connection that is on the board, either faulty or just sub par. Either way I can't afford to return it to newegg so I am forced to buy a new Ethernet card and sound card.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2009 4:59:45 PM

Rating + 4 Good budget board


Pros: It still works after around a month of usage. Everything is stable, though I'm not over-clocking anything.

Cons: The manual just describes the connections of the motherboard and nothing about BIOS settings. Fortunately, ASRock has a more in-depth manual on their website describing the BIOS options.

"Auto" settings in BIOS don't always select the best settings.

Front-panel audio is not automatically enabled. It can only be enabled with a setting in the audio driver that needs to be installed and a setting in BIOS. The manual describes how to do this on pages 17 and 18.

Other Thoughts: This was my second ASRock micro-ATX motherboard and both have been working well.

The power-on light on my case has a 3-pin socket with the middle empty, while the motherboard has a 2-pin plug. I don't know who to blame for the mismatch. I simply snipped the 3-pin socket in half on the case wire to fit it into the plugs of the motherboard.

This is running a Pentium Dual Core E5200 with 4GB of DDR800 memory and Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

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Guy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/28/2009 1:32:26 AM

Rating + 2 Power On PROBLEMS


Pros: nice feature

Cons: Power on problems. I need, after power on to press the reset button to start the computer, sometime even several times. PCI express does't reconize Ati radeon video card. I will ask for a RMA

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Otpi
Tech Level: low
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/21/2009 10:25:08 AM

Rating + 2 May be Unlucky but be carefull


Pros: Quad Core Support. Easy setup.

And of course, it's NewEgg shopping and shipping satisfaction

Cons: Doesn't shut down. Auto-starts after the shutdown.

No support from Asrock. They just point you to the retailer (Newegg in this case)

Other Thoughts: As it has worked fine for most of the reviewers, I consider myself unlucky. Asrock might be good but lack of support and forum discussions is a concern. I won't buy another piece though, it's risky

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JohnCute
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2009 11:14:34 PM

Rating + 5 just fine


Pros: Cheap. Works fine, and works fine.. no more , I think, that's almost people need.

Cons: Looks small...

Other Thoughts: I bought this item for build my gaming system. I paid $598 for all,

and this price include 22 inch monitor and shipping fee. They are works

well, and quietly. Easy to install.

I like to buy PC part from newegg. no tax, anything is cheaper than

Be**buy or Walm**t ^_^

My parts list :
CPU: Intel Core 2Duo E5200 @2.5G
MB: ASRock G31M-S
RAM: Kingston KVR667D2N5K2 4G 2G*2 Kit
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB
VIDEO CARD: POWERCOLOR AX4830 512MD3-H Radeon HD 4830 512M
Monitor: SCEPTRE X20WG-NagaII Black 20.1" 2ms(GTG)
PSU: Rosewill RP500-2 500W
OTHER: Rosewill RCR-IC001 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5" Internal Card Reader ,

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.

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civic_b18c5
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/14/2009 12:43:14 AM

Rating + 5 Good board for the price


Pros: Budget, good board. It's like any other board out there. My buddy bought one awhile back, and i helped him put it together. This was the motherboard i was planning to get as soon as the price drops, but it never did. Clearly has enough room for those Nvidia 9-series/GTX card or the ATI HDx.

Cons: I don't see how the Instant-Boot is really a factor. If your OS is Vista, it's still laggy once it recovers from it's Hibernation. If it's XP, it runs very smooth and boots up like it's already been warmed up. The BIOS is very weak, not much options, but I already knew what I was in store for. Before you considered buying this motherboard, you can download the .PDF manual for this board straight from the ASRock website so you can see how the layout of the BIOS and see what it has to offer before you buy it. Just a heads up.

Other Thoughts: There was absolutely no problems getting the audio to work with SP3 as another user suggested, though I questioned if he even knows how to get the driver to install correctly given his screen name. I'm dual-booting with both Vista64 & XP. Sound, chipset drivers, LAN, and everything is working accordingly in both OS. Going to try Leopard OSX 10.5 as soon as i get a better processor.

Intel 630 Processor (yea i know, can't just throw it away)
Patriot PC6400 4GB
Seagate 320GB
EVGA 8600GT

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xfactortype1
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/12/2009 11:16:23 PM

Rating + 5 great budget


Pros: excellent quality for price point. very easy setup. should of gotten this 1st.

Cons: none for this price..okay wait.. maybe include case speaker

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KNIFEKNAPPER
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/7/2009 3:27:19 PM

Rating + 5 great cheap board


Pros: This board really works great!!! Hooked everything up turned it on then set the memory specs in the bios like the timing and such, 5-5-5-15 and voltage 1.8 for the gskill Im using. Very easy to do, not confusing at all for even a begginer like me. Then downloaded op system then downloaded drivers from the disk that came with it and ran great without any hickups at all. Newegg is the best!!!!

Cons: None for such a low end board, much better than expected

Other Thoughts: I usually dont write reviews but reading everyone elses was a great benefit to me so I felt like returning the favor to let people know that this is the one to get if your looking for a super cheap fast rig with simple functions and just to get you by untill you can build that super computer we all dream about. oc/ed just a little from 2.8 to 3.05 through the bios but havent even tried to go higher yet and havent tried the oc program that comes with the disc either. my system, 4gig gskill ddr2/800, e7400, g31m-s mobo, allied 350w, sata w/d 250gig caviar hard drive and two dvd burners/combo and full atx case hooked up to a 40 inch lcd tv. Price it all at Newegg and I think you will be supprised how cheap you could build a fast system like this. By the way Im not a gammer so I dont have details yet about graphics and stuff on games but would consider getting a graphics card if I played high end games and dont know the compatability with them yet. Hope this info helps in your decisions.

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tekman
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/29/2009 5:47:10 PM

Rating + 5 G31M-S


Pros: One review said the onboard sound did not work with XP SP3, I had no problems at all with that. I installed XP Pro with SP3 slipstreamed, then ran the ASRock setup disk, everything went off without a hitch. Fast board, has PCIE2 slot. I put in a GeForce 9800 GT card with room to spare. E8400 is one mean CPU in this board.

Cons: Memory slots are a bit close together.

Other Thoughts: Most people do not need or want 1394 on a gaming board, so no issues there.

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Builder/Reseller
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/24/2009 7:55:39 AM

Rating + 3 A word of caution -- ASRock G31M-S


Pros: Good Board for the money spent, Does Boot fast even without the instant Boot software.
BUT see Cons Below
Also great Newegg customer support... as usual! They are dealing with my issues in a great and speedy way!

Cons: To me this is a major con... The onboard Sound Does NOT WORK with SP3!
After Downloading and trying drivers from both the ASRock site and Realtek (and flashing the BIOS... could not believe a new MB required this), Still no sound.
Tried to contact Asrock tech support... they are closed till Feb 1. Finally after jumping thru many hoops I found out just uninstall SP3 and sound will work and it does. ASRock knows about the SP3 issue and it would be nice to post this info in the motherboards description AND would be nice if Newegg would too... Newegg is closed for the weekend so I can not notify them on this bit of info..yet Blame this on the Realtek Audio chip but still a new mb not working with Sp3 ? What gives?

Other Thoughts: Even though ASRock tells you to upgrade the bios to use the 4 sec instant boot software on their website... To me the fact that you are FORCED to flash a BIOS on a new Motherboard to get a included program to work I find this a negative!
The Board does boot to windows very fast, so if it wasn't flashed to try and fix the sound issue, I would just say forget the 4 sec boot junk.
First and last Asrock MB I will ever use ... ASRock and Asus have really gone down hill... IMHO .... bad taste left with me

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mrfajita
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/23/2009 9:41:44 PM

Rating + 5 ASRock g31


Pros: Using this with a Pentium Dual E2200 and it works great. replaced a Biostar P4M80-M4. It is better in every way.

Cons: No onboard 1394 headers? none really.

Other Thoughts: By default it set my E2200 to 2.93GHz..kinda weird

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Kms001861
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2009 12:02:27 PM

Rating + 5 ASRock G31M-S


Pros: Works Great. Good Stats. Comes with sata cable, ide cable, directx 9, adobe reader, 3 months of mcafee.

Cons: only 2 memory slots

Other Thoughts: I bought this for my budget build and it works great. The OC tuner and power saver aren't that bad. Overall very good deal for the Money.
Budget computer specs.
Q8200
ASRock G31M-S
4 GB Corsair 800mhz
evga 7800 GT
Exsiting Hard drive ide
Asus dual layer dvd burner

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/4/2009 2:59:25 PM

Rating + 5 Cheap and Works


Pros: The motherboard worked perfectly upon assembly. Cheap and Good for the price. Asus quality (considering AsRock is a subsidiary) for cheap I guess. It just works and that's pretty much you should be looking for in this price range.

Cons: None.

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Dogbert
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/23/2008 8:19:52 PM

Rating + 3 Inexpensive, supports wide range of older CPUs, overclockable, but should be better


Pros: - Inexpensive, works OK, and was an easy install.
- Easy overclocking. 4 year old 3GHz P4 530J came out of the scrap pile and is now running OCed@4GHz.

Cons: - Onboard video "feels" slow, has shimmers in 2D, and is really slow in DX9 3D. Gets a Vista winsat score of 3.4/3D & 3.7/2D.
- No gig ethernet only realtek 10/100.
- No SPDIF connector(s).
- No firewire.
- Only one case fan connector.
- Probably a fluke, but would not boot with some older G-Skill DDR2-667 memory. Seems to have a preference for DD2-800 or better.
- Shoved in a better PCIe videocard and it works, but without any of the reasurances of being able to disable the onboard video via bios or jumper.

Other Thoughts: My bad, should have done more homework; was just looking for something quick & cheap to recover some scrapped parts... Got exactly what I paid for but regreet not looking for something with at least a SPDIF connector and 10/100/1000 nic.

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mdputnat
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/18/2008 3:41:37 PM

Rating + 5 Good MicroATX Board for the $$


Pros: Bios is very easy to use. Supports Quad-Core without any Bios flashing. Accepts a variety of processors, so this board can last you a while. Simple design. The PCIe x16 slot dosn't interfere with the PCIe x1 if you're using a graphics card that requires 2 slots.

Cons: None for this price range. It's what you'd expect.

Other Thoughts: Using a Q8200
4GB of ADATA gaming memory
8600GT MSI graphics card

This was to update my current desktop with something that I could game with as well. I swapped the guts within 1 hour and had it running with just a little Bios tweaking for the DDR2 800 memory that I used. With the RAM and Q8200, total was $300 for a system that can get 5.6 on Vista's rating.

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RickW
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/27/2008 1:21:37 PM

Rating + 5 ASRock, rocks!


Pros: Wanted a quick replacement motherboard for an old Soyo that croaked. This one I took a chance on. I've owned ASUS boards so decided the 'budget' one might be a good bet. I was right.
Picked up some DDR2-800 AData memory to go with it and popped on my used Core2Duo 6600 processor. Booted right up. Ran the included driver CD to install everything that's onboard and it's been humming away with no problems 24/7 since install. I'm very pleased with a simple solution and a simple install. It really couldn't have been any easier.

Cons: The included manual. It's small and the text is a bit tiny to read. You will need it to install your power/reset/HDD connectors to the case though, and to make overclocking changes. But it is accurate and if you have a magnifying glass.. not a problem.
If you don't mind waiting for it to boot, takes about 20 seconds from the Power-on to HDD activity for the boot process. Not sure why, but it's been stated in other threads I've read that it's probably the setting of Master/Slave. If it's set to Cable Select, it boots a little faster. Not an issue really as I keep this on 24/7.

Other Thoughts: Installed an EIDE HDD and a DVD burner. It does support SATA and will even boot from a USB device, settable in the BIOS or from the boot screen.
A very stable little board. It is little. I can barely find it in the ATX case!

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