The AsRock ConRoe1333-eSATA2 and ConRoe1333-D667 Motherboard

[Apoptosis]

ASRock is at it again! ASRock has been known for its budget yet innovative boards and LR is taking a look at two more boards that may just fit the bill when it comes to finding a board for your budget and HTPC needs. The ASRock ConRoe1333-D667 and ConRoe1333-eSATA2 motherboards are in the hot seat this time around! Read on to see how these budget boards stack up against the competition.



Review Title: The AsRock ConRoe1333-eSATA2 and ConRoe1333-D667 Motherboards
Review URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/540/1/

[Zertz]

They look like decent boards for someone on a tight budget, but that 20 pin connector... they could have worked a harder to find a better spot for it, if your PSU has short cables or is under your mobo your pretty much screwed. Crossfire budget board is kind of weird too.

[dicecca112]

wow I didn't even notice it was 20pin, who does 20 pin connectors anymore?

[Zertz]

wow I didn't even notice it was 20pin, who does 20 pin connectors anymore?

They use a molex though, but yeah, I don't really know what 4 extra pins do, but I don't think it can be anything else than 3.3/5/12V, so I guess using a molex can get the same job done.

[bobo]

It seems there is something not right about the results of overclocking in this review.

ASRock claims that these boards can support C2D 1333 (333) FSB CPUs in overclocking mode.
This means, at least, FSB should be overclocked to 333 without any problems.

The results of oveclocking in this review seems to be lower than it should be.

I have a ConRoe1333-D667 board and I can overclock it to 340 FSB by using auto sync setting of FSB & PCI-E
I have found that this board can not have PCI-E fixed at 100 when overclocking (it won't post), then async mode to fix PCI-E should not be used.

[Apoptosis]

I contacted Jason the author of this article with the same comments and he is going to be re-looking into this as I agree something isn't right.