Advantages: Affordable, reliable and fast Disadvantages: No SLi capability, poor manual
...Technology, CPU Frequency Stepless control, ASRock U-COP - Overclocking protection, Boot Failure Guard & CPU Multiplier which is helpful for overclocking also. The Audio supplied on this motherboard is full 7.1 surround sound, supplied via the AC'97 chipset, this is fine for most people but i dont trust the AC'97 chipsets out there so i still opt for my separate soundcard. It should be noted that this motherboard has no graphics chipset, so you WILL ... ...are taken direct from the ASRock website: CPU - Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64 / 64FX / 64X2 and Sempron processor - FSB 1000 MHz (2.0GT/s)
- Supports HyperTransport Technology
- Supports AMD Cool'n'Quiet Technology Chipset - Northbridge: ULi M1695 - Southbridge: ULI M1567 Hybrid Booster - CPU Frequency Stepless control
- CPU Multiplier
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G) Memory - DIMM slots: 4 supported
- Supports DDR400
- Max. capacity: ...
foehammer 16.03.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - motherboard - ATX - ALi M1695
Advantages: Cheap but not compromsing, basic yet brilliant Disadvantages: Asrock's website leaves a lot to be desired
...but it's nice to see Asrock are attempting to bridge the gap between upgrading motherboards. The BIOS is a pretty standard affair, I did notice that it had set my RAM speed wrong, but it was simple to change and there are enough features to keep the average tweaker happy. Although I'm not sure overclocking ability, as this is an avenue of computing I don't delve in. Installation of drivers was simple (just pop the disc in and away you go) but if ...
djhworld 07.09.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - motherboard - ATX - ALi M1695
Advantages: Full Speed AGP and PCI-Express 16 Graphics, Great Upgrade Path, Stable System Disadvantages: None - As yet
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - AGP and PCI-Express Graphics
I have had the motherboard for 6 months now and I have been very pleased with the motherboard.
The chipset used on the board is the ULi M1695. The chipset is the only one currently on the market that allows the use of both AGP and/or PCI-Express graphic cards for the AMD Socket 939 CPU's.
The board gave me an upgrade path that I have fully used.
When I bought the board I had a Nvidia 6800GT ... ...One finally benefit is Asrock will produce an addon card that will allow the use of the AMD M2 chip when it is released in the future. This board has all the upgrade paths sorted out.
If you currently have a decent AGP card but need to move to a faster proccessor I would recomend to look at this board. You will get to use your current AGP solution but have the benefit of knowing you can upgrade to a PCI-Express 16 Graphics card in the future and ...
tungst3n 21.04.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - motherboard - ATX - ALi M1695
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