Joined on 10/30/01
New budget king
Pros: Got it for less than $35 on sale. Does everything you could ask for except support on chip VGA as there are no monitor/vga ports.
Cons: none so far
Overall Review: People need to be objective w reviews. You can't compare a Vega to a Cadillac, there different price ranges. For what this board is, it does it well. I stuck a single DDR 4 stick of ram in in, a sub $40 M.2 ssd and a used video card w a X4 950. Loaded W10 w usb drive and done. Scored above 5K on cpu benchmark. Everything loaded w/o a hitch, downloaded new bios w windows platform installer and updated easy. If you want more features then upgrade to more expensive motherboard. I build of computers, Asrock is my fav flavor of motherboard.
Great till hinge froze up
Pros: Cheap, fast , Windows 7
Cons: Cheap, very thin plastic, glare on LCD
Overall Review: Left Hinge froze up after 4 months. $20 for part, a whole lot of work to replace! Not like my old think pad that's 6 yrs old & still going strong. Not sure if any other brands are better, I think HP sells the identical laptop under a different name.
Good compact case
Pros: Straight forward, easy install
Overall Review: Good compact case
Excellent budget CPU
Pros: liked it so much I bought a 2nd so all my pc's are W11 ready
Overall Review: I'm benching like 17-18k. Compared to like 8k on R3 1200. My R5 3400g gets like 10k.
Best ram EVER
Pros: Put this in and benchmarked w Passmark 2008, scored like 3600. Most reg ram runs 14-1800 at least in all my builds which is around 50.
Cons: zero
Overall Review: Team is very good ram, excellent product.
It worked in 1 of 2 systems, did not like Biostar A320 mb
Pros: The Biostar mb is picky with ram so no surprise it wouldn't post. Put in Gigabyte B450M and it worked. Low ram benchmarks and not stable for cpu over clocking. I would spend a little bit more and better specs.
Cons: The ram fit tight in both motherboards I tried. It took some force to seat the ram.
Overall Review: I do not recommend unless it's a business computer.