[jack-o-bytes]

I am looking at buying a new motherboard. I am using the Asrock n68 s and am wondering whether any one has used it and what they think of it.

any help is great

jack-o-bytes.

[Compiler]

I don't trust anything from Asrock, which is the owned by ASUS as their their sub-brand.

[musician_xx]

The ASROCK K10N78D is the best motherboard with non high cost. It comes with integrated graphics Geforce 8200 + 10 USB and socket AM2+

[jack-o-bytes]

Compiler,

Why don't you trust asrock? Surely if they are a sub brand of the motherboard giants ASUS then they should be at least OK. Also it seems that it is a very feature rich motherboard.

Jack-O-Bytes

[Compiler]

You asked what people think, you got my opinion.

My opinion is also based on facts by experience, reports from others and what Asrock does. Asrock is the "rear-end" of ASUS, they come out with the junk that ASUS wouldn't put their name on. Quite a bit of it is experimental, which is a good thing.

The Asrock N68 S is a bottom end board... its fairly priced at $48. Expandability is limited by 2 memory slots but has at least a 16x PCIe slots. It has the GeForce 7025 chipset which for a budget computer is all fine.

To get the price down, corners have to be cut on the quality of components and the amount of parts. Cheaper / low quality parts = shorter and sometimes less reliable life span. An Gigabyte of better quality and more features is about $80 which this Asrock doesn't compare. The N68 is not a feature rich board, its basic. Here, compare:

Asrock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...rock%20N68%20S

Gigabyte: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128379
That model has quite a lot more features and a faster GPU.

Some ASrock boards are better than others, but considering that ASUS has their own problems and spending hours troubleshooting is time consuming, its makes more sense to spend a bit more $$$ (when possible) to build a better computer.

[Compiler]

Don't see much of anyone selling an ASROCK K10N78D - but they seem to be $60~70 boards.

As far as performance, they've been avg... some have good features. They are better than PC-Chips. On par or below ECS - which is what ASRock was created to compete against.

[prunejuice]

ASUS has fallen off quite a bit in the last few years. I can only imagine the quality of their "budget line".

[Compiler]

(Nods) I've been working with Gigabyte most of the time for the past 1+ since the large number of ASUS failures. Gigabyte has some problems like anyone else, but until Gigabyte does something stupid, I'll be sticking with them... or MSI.