Motherboard question

[Grumpybear2000]

A friend wants to know if below motherboard are any good or does he leave it alone.

Asroc N68-S3 UCC with Instant boot, OC Tuner Core unlock feature etc

[Detale]

One of my first MoBo's was an AS rock and I had no problems with it. To be fair though is it good for what? Does it work? Does he just want to upgrade or what? We need some more info to give an honest opinion here bud. It's not a "bad" mobo but it's not nearly the best out there either.

[Grumpybear2000]

Its brand new and needs something that will last 3 or 4 yrs as his motherboard stopped working. To get on the internet and download and play a few games online, some games off line but nothing to heavy. Copy and convert movies and songs.

Ad for whats for sale.

Processor AMD Athlon II X 2 255 3.1Ghz Dual core

Mainboard Asroc N68-S3 UCC with Instant boot, OC Tuner
Core unlock feature etc.

Memory 4 Gigabytes Kingston DDR3 1333 RAM

Hard Drive 1 Terabyte (1,000Gb)

DVD Burner LG Super multi

Wireless Tenda wireless card

Case Thermaltake V3 gaming case

[Expeto]

get on the internet and download and play a few games online, some games off line but nothing to heavy. Copy and convert movies and songs.
Any new hardware can do those things.He should decide based on offline games he will be playing

[Detale]

Hmmm, well how much is the bundle cost? This will be a huge factor as well. Does he have a budget?

One thing I dont like it that the on board gfx only has a vga out, so that really is quite outdated
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3249/ion68s3uccm6663127.jpg

[Appzalien]

Hmmm, well how much is the bundle cost? This will be a huge factor as well. Does he have a budget?

One thing I dont like it that the on board gfx only has a vga out, so that really is quite outdated
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3249/ion68s3uccm6663127.jpg

A graphics card will solve that problem, and if he plans on gaming he will definitely need one, as on-board video is usually not good enough for recent releases.

[Detale]

Perhaps, but personally I don't like the idea one bit of still using VGA out as a standard.

[handelsblatt]

i prefere ASRock M3A790GXH/128M for unlocking cores

[Snee]

Assrock is Asus's budget brand or something.

I've no idea about their quality control or anything, but one can at least hope that some of the better aspects of Asus's engineering rub off, since they're a subsidiary and all (or was last I read about them).

[Detale]

WOW, long time no Snee!

[Snee]

:hi:

Anyways. On topic I can also note that my cousin used an Asrock motherboard for a couple of years, and seemed satisified enough.

It wasn't fancy, but it worked.