Upgrade system to Core 2 - Recommendations?

[BigTroll]

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yeah amazing what they go for, atually it has parallel built in but you have to put in a bracket for it. still i know how you feel hard to find a board with parallel i still use a hp laserjet 5L

[Quasar]

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I too have a HP laser. Plus a dot matrix I use for an old label program that doesn't understand what laser means. lol

[Wrog]

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The only real downsides to the Asrock motherboard in my opinion (and others have mentioned) are the 2GB max RAM limit and the lack of gigabit ethernet. Otherwise it's a perfectly good interim board that will allow you to incrementally upgrade (P4 -> Core 2, DDR1 -> DDR2, IDE -> SATA2, etc.). You can always pre-emptively cap the electrolytics if you want... Everyone has their personal choice in equipment, I haven't had a single Asus motherboard fail me yet in almost 20 years of building for family and friends <knock on wood>. PCBONEZ is spot on though, Asrock is generally considered a low end Asus. That doesn't mean it won't serve you well until your next upgrade(s) though!

[severach]

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I don't understand the loathing for Asus.

Because at the time I still bought boards individually I didn't have time to wade through Asus large lineup to find the few boards weren't crap. It was much easier to buy Aopen where everything was top notch.

It doesn't matter what they do now. Now I buy computers the way the big companies do. All computers must be the same. When it's time, they all go. Thanks to current technology going nowhere fast I'll be running the current Pentium IV computers for a long time.

[Quasar]

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Recapping I can do. Understanding all this new stuff leaves me behind the eight ball. But, it's much clearer after these replies. I feel less intimidated and not so overwhelmed.

80386 anyone?

Is Aopen an option too?

Q

[mockingbird]

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Because at the time I still bought boards individually I didn't have time to wade through Asus large lineup to find the few boards weren't crap. It was much easier to buy Aopen where everything was top notch.

The last time Aopen made a motherboard was i845 era me thinks.

The AX6BC Pro was legendary though.

[PCBONEZ]

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I think the 915 can handle Core2 as long as they're not the newer half-multiplier models.

No.

[PCBONEZ]

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Their Intel boards are overpriced though and are not all poly. I had a couple of ICH10/G45 motherboards and I was shocked to see some second-rate Chinese capacitors. Luckily, they were not in important places.

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You've claimed that before and you are full of it.
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I challenge you to find a single Intel brand motherboard with a Chinese cap on it [as original] that was made in this Millennium.
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[weirdlookinguy]

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I think he was talking about ASUS motherboards for Intel processors, not Intel branded boards.

[Quasar]

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The last time Aopen made a motherboard was i845 era me thinks.

The AX6BC Pro was legendary though.

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http://global.aopen.com/Products.aspx?id=52

http://www.techpowerup.com/100790/AO...therboard.html

All SFF stuff it seems.

Q

[PCBONEZ]

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I think he was talking about ASUS motherboards for Intel processors, not Intel branded boards.

That is not what he 'said' and based on a previous discussion that isn't what he meant either.
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If he's surprised to see a non Jap cap on an Asus board for an Intel CPU that would be even worse.
OST ain't Japanese and Asus LOVES OST.
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[shovenose]

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Personally think that older asus boards sucked. (athlon xp days). But their newer offerings are really quite good. Ive seen some really good overclocking on asus boards...
There! Less cussing more info

[PCBONEZ]

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The last time Aopen made a motherboard was i845 era me thinks.

AOpen did quite a lot after i845 but their main focus was MODT boards for the car-PC and HTPC markets.

Just picked a few.
http://usa.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=2062
http://usa.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?Auno=2973
http://usa.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=2064
http://usa.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?Auno=2664
http://usa.aopen.com/products_detail.aspx?auno=2192
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[shovenose]

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Ps I found jun fu caps on an intel brandwd mobo. Pcbonez opinion is that some moron recapped it (i got it used). But cmon they may have probs to!

[weirdlookinguy]

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Ps I found jun fu caps on an intel brandwd mobo. Pcbonez opinion is that some moron recapped it (i got it used). But cmon they may have probs to!

EDIT: pretty hateful comment removed.... sorry guys, it's been one of those days for me. But shovenose what's with all the sloppy "txt-speak" typing? It's annoying.

[PCBONEZ]

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Recapping I can do. Understanding all this new stuff leaves me behind the eight ball. But, it's much clearer after these replies. I feel less intimidated and not so overwhelmed.

80386 anyone?

Is Aopen an option too?

Q

If you want a MODT board and AOpen might be worth looking for.
I've handled a few of them [i855, i915 & i945] and AOpen was using top of the line caps [Rubycon, Sanyo, Panasonic, or Polymer] in critical areas but CH/TW caps in the low stress spots. It was obvious they paid attention to what the cap's job was before they picked what to use in every spot. Build quality was also very good.

MODT is Mobile on DeskTop. A laptop CPU on a desktop board.
Low power use and low heat. Can be made to be very quite.
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[PCBONEZ]

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Ps I found jun fu caps on an intel brandwd mobo. Pcbonez opinion is that some moron recapped it (i got it used). But cmon they may have probs to!

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As I recall you didn't even know a model number so I have doubts you were even looking at an Intel made board.
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Yes, Intel has problems just like everyone else but they don't use non-jap caps.
If they ever did it was back in the early 90's but I doubt it even then.
If you are going to slam them for something then at least get your facts right.
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[PCBONEZ]

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EDIT: pretty hateful comment removed.... sorry guys, it's been one of those days for me. But shovenose what's with all the sloppy "txt-speak" typing? It's annoying.

Kick you shoes off and have a beer.

[Quasar]

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Yeah. The email hit before you changed it. Had a giggle then came here to comment. Thank you for the self-edit.

Have 2 beers.

Q

[BigTroll]

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Yeah i had a Aopen board, i really miss their products i think it was a AX4S SG UN or something it was a full atx 865G chipset, i put a socket 478 3.4GHZ pentium 4 EXTREME EDITION on it, ran great and overclocked to a max of 3.83ghz with a zalman 9500 but i had to back it down to 3.73 for stability load temps never over 55c. unfortunalty i didn't know much about power supplys then and my case had a apevia 420 watt that came with the case and while gaming one day it popped, luckily it didn't ruin nothing. I also have a Aopen DVD Burner in my current desktop.