"Q" <Q@anon.com> wrote in message
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>I have been told that ASROCK is an inferior spin off of ASUS.
> What is wrong with this board?:
>
> 1. Slower Overall?
> 2. Slower Video for games?
> 3. Goes "bad" sooner?
> 4. Fewer features?
> 5. Unreliable -intermittant crashes?
>
> An ASROCK was put in my machine when it was repaired. So far so good. But
> I
> am CONCERNED!!
> ~Q
>

"ElJerid" <s.vanderhaeg***@pandora.be> wrote in message
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>
> "Q" <Q@anon.com> wrote in message
> news:XjKQd.31107$by5.20770@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> >I have been told that ASROCK is an inferior spin off of ASUS.
> > What is wrong with this board?:
> >
> > 1. Slower Overall?
> > 2. Slower Video for games?
> > 3. Goes "bad" sooner?
> > 4. Fewer features?
> > 5. Unreliable -intermittant crashes?
> >
> > An ASROCK was put in my machine when it was repaired. So far so good.
But
> > I
> > am CONCERNED!!
> > ~Q
> >
> Asrock is a Chinese daughter company of Asus. The plant is build at Asus'
> quality standards and Chines employees are surely not less qualified than
> people in Asus' factory. But their salary is a lot lower.
> Asus' objective was to compete with many low-priced motherboards
> manufacturers and to avoid to loose marketshare in that segment. They also
> had to avoid to compete with their own products either.
> The result was Asrock, building quality motherboards in China at lower
cost,
> but with less features or performance than the Asus counterparts at the
same
> period of manufacturing.
>