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A review by stephan_pieri on ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA - motherboard - ATX - nForce3 250 April 7th, 2007
Author's product rating:
Speed
Fast
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Stability
Very stable
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Very good, Well built, Everything is there
Disadvantages:
none
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I purchased this motherboard as a replacement to an old one whilst doing a bit of upgrading.
I scowered the market, and this one seemed good value for money.
After ordering this item, it arrived the next day and was fitted within an hour.
I have had no problems with this motherboard so far, and i have had it for about 5 months now. I am not interested in overclocking at the moment, but i believe it can be done with this.
There was one hickup, but this was not down to the motherboard. I purchased a AM" processor, but it came without a fan. After emailing ASRock themselves, i got a reply the next day with detailed information about every fan available, and what they recommend to be the best, so support is great aswell.
I currently have Vista installed, and this copes well with it as it was produced for Vista.
To anybody who is looking to purchase a motherboard, i seriously recommend this one to be a great buy
This board does NOT run well in vista, mainly due to the lack of a proper vista driver for nForce3. Nvidia have released an audo driver, but that is all.
This board sufferes from problems with certain video cards and SATA drives under vista, as well as occasional problems with USB resources.
The Box the board comes in says it is Vista compatible, but in febuary 2007, nVidia decided to drop any form of Vista support for Nforce 2 & 3 chipsets.
Works well in XP but is a complete failure in Vista. ASRock will not provide a compatible replacement board or a refund.
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This is more a warning than a review.
This MOBO is NOT VISTA capable when using a dual core processor and an ATI AGP graphics card - Google:- 'problems with AM2NF3-VST X1950' for details.
(Asrock have recently added a waiver to their website stating AM2NF3-VSTA won't work with VISTA, ATI graphics card and dual core processor)
Asrock do not intend to provide VISTA drivers for this VISTA certified MOBO.
It might well work with a unicore processor and VISTA but it is marketed as a dual core VISTA capable AGP motherboard !!!
Also the Product information states that it supports DDR 400 RAM - you must fit DDR2 RAM on this motherboard !!
Very Poor performance as a VISTA MOBO -
Excellent if you intend to use XP
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ASRock is an energetic company with the support of strong R&D team and active marketing channels. ASRock's mission is to be an excellent opportunity for customers in the motherboard market who have yearned for a reliable, cost-effective motherboard brand for a long time. With its vision to provide reliable and affordable products, ASRock is confident that it can succeed in the motherboard industry and will continue to grow in other IT industry fields. PRODUCT FEATURES: Hyper-Transport technology and AMD Cool 'n' Quiet technology; Supports dual channel DDR400; Untied overclocking capability; 7.1 channel superior quality audio; Windows vista premium logo hardware ready.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slot(s):
1 processor - Socket AM2
4 memory - DIMM 240-pin
5 PCI
1 AGP 8x
Storage Interfaces:
ATA-133 - connector(s): 2 x 40pin IDC - 4 Device(s)
Serial ATA-150 - connector(s): 2 x 7pin Serial ATA - 2 Device(s) - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD
Interfaces:
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45
This board manages to allow all the modern processors, combined with either DDR or DDRII memory, and AGP or PCIE graphics.
Obviously I bought this board so that I could upgrade my processor, yet keep my existing DDR memory and AGP graphics card.
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Realizing that I am neither much of an enthusiast nor a gamer -- and also to satisfy my itch to build a new system -- I decided to build a new budget workstation setup to replace my two-year old Intel Pentium 2.4A Preshott (no typo error here :p)... more
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