Wasn't ASRock's boards for the entry market ? Well, that doesn't seem so from 2008. ASRock is making in roads to mid range boards. As you can see, this new board 4Core1600P35-Wifi+ is based on the
Intel P35 + ICH 9R chipsets. The board supports all LGA 775 for
Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme / CoreTM 2 Quad / CoreTM 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Penryn Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors. The board also incorporates a
all solid capacitor design.
For those who can't afford the DDR3 modules, you can use DDR2 with this board and upgrade to DDR3 in the future. The board supports Dual Channel
DDR3 1333/1066/800 (2 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 4GB and
Dual Channel DDR2 1066/800/667 (4 x DIMM slots) with max. capacity up to 8GB.
It also comes withi WIFI/AP, 1394, ESATA, GbE, OC TUNER(software) etc. Read about it first at
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2008/asro...5-WIFI+/g1.htm