SSD on Sata 3gbps

[EarthDog]

ASRock really has arguably the best bang for the buck motherboards out a couple of generations running on the Intel side. The X77Extreme 4 was solid for the price, and now in Z97 the Extreme 6 is also quite solid.

I always wonder why people hold grudges like that... 'I had an asrock board fail on me, years ago, so I don't like them'. That logic just makes no sense to me.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I started my SSD life with a SATA3 SSD in a SATA2 board (x58) without issues but did buy a PCI-E Sata3 Controller card some time later and it was without a doubt quicker, although you won't get full Sata3 speeds, it was noticeable but not by a significant margin.

 

[Aquinus]

Personally, I would have just gotten the SSD and judged responsiveness from there. Still rockin a socket 775 in the house, and once it was given an SSD it breathed new life into it.

That said, @Aquinus has had a bad experience with ASRock, but you made a good purchase in that motherboard. My experience has been that ASRock has improved quite a bit, and they are usually the first boards I look at in a new build, making comparisons of other brands/models against them. As long as you don't get a lower tier model, you are pretty safe.

Right, my experience is from an old skt478 and skt775 board. The boards worked well in the sense that they did everything they were designed to do, but at the time things like CPU voltage control where missing when even the cheapest of boards would have it. So with that said, all the ASRock boards I had were solid, they just didn't do what I wanted them to do. Since then I've gotten MSI and ASUS boards with nothing but good experiences with both Intel and AMD.

I always wonder why people hold grudges like that... 'I had an asrock board fail on me, years ago, so I don't like them'. That logic just makes no sense to me.

It's not that I don't like ASRock. It's just that I know ASUS and MSI from my own experience has delivered good products, so why deviate from something I know from experience works for me? That's all I'm trying to get at.

 

[EarthDog]

Well that makes more sense when its said like you meant it.

But across YEARS and multiple chipsets to not consider them... just not me I guess.