Thanks for the reply, a friend was saying that you should NEVER buy Asrock because they're bad or something along those lines (btw this is the same friend who thought AMD > Intel.

I just wanted to add that I have an ASRock motherboard and functionally speaking it works great. If I had one gripe it would be a complete lack of onboard LED's for relaying errors and the like. My last motherboard had 4 LED's for various errors but this motherboard (Pro3 SE P67) is entirely dark.

On February 18 2012 19:10 ZwuckeL wrote:
Where does the slang come from to say "them" instead of "the" or "their"?

You mean like "Them broodlords" instead of "those broodlords"?

I dunno english is cooky since we lost a lot of articulate words when we started filling our chiefly Germanic roots with Latin words. For instance the global plural "you" is simply "you" instead of the most correct "thou."

Alryk

United States2718 Posts

February 19 2012 06:53 GMT

#1023

I have a question about integrated graphics.... I'm pretty sure that the motherboard used to house the integrated graphics, correct? And now, because the integrated graphics are built onto the die (correct?) of both llano and SB/IVB, what happened to the motherboard IGP (in laptops, or in desktops with an IGP mobo)? Does it default to the integrated onto the die graphics, or do motherboards just simply no longer come with integrated gpus? I think that's enough for the gist of the question, thanks.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 19 2012 06:59 GMT

#1024

The IGP along with things such as the memory controller was part of the north bridge. The north bridge no longer exists on FM1 and LGA1155 motherboards, all of its functions are on the CPU now.

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

February 19 2012 08:49 GMT

#1025

Having a very strange issue with playing lan games with my friends. This concerns the games Brood War and Rise of Nations Gold Edition.

We have 3 computers all wired up to the router via ethernet. However, whenever MY computer tries to host, it will never work. They can see my game listed but they cannot join. But they can host and I can join theirs! What is going on? I have all ports forwarded correctly and we even tried gameranger and hamachi.

Also, although I can play Brood War when they host the game, for some reason whenever we try Rise of Nations I will always drop. Only my computer. We play for a couple minutes and bam I get lagged out. What is going on? I reformatted my computer and troubleshooted all night but to no avail.

It is never their computers screwing up, only mine! I am very confused and would love the help of networking gurus as to what I can do to fix this issue. Thank you.

Perryy

54 Posts

February 19 2012 20:39 GMT

#1026

Does this video card require a s/pdif cable?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 19 2012 20:40 GMT

#1027

No it does not.

GeZZa07

Australia75 Posts

February 20 2012 00:53 GMT

#1028

I was looking for a simple guide ( i have found many guides, but they are a bit to vague for me to follow) to OC a i5 2500k. I have an asrock z68 e3g3. Any tips for a beginner would be useful.

Cheers

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 01:16 GMT

#1029

Simple guides are usually vague... not sure what you're looking for. Overclocking a 2500k just involves increasing the multiplier and adjusting vcore. The rest of the settings can be left on auto for mild overclocks.

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 03:48 GMT

#1030

I am currently building my PC and have been split between the z68 ASRock e3g3 and an ASUS p8p67, don't know the differences nor the advantages of either, if you could inform me on it that would be awesome!!!

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 04:16 GMT

#1031

Asrock Z68 Extreme3 can do SLI while P8P67 cannot. P8P67 is better in everything else.

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 04:31 GMT

#1032

How can it be better in everything else? sorry for naggging just curious? I plan on not going SLI so that means I would go with p8p67 but im not positive on which to choose because there are plenty of versions.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 04:38 GMT

#1033

There is only one P8P67. If you are talking about the P8P67 Pro or P8P67 LE or any suffix than you're not talking about the P8P67.

P8P67 has more connectivity, USB3 header, better CMOS placement, more phases, better warranty, better UEFI, and whatever else you can think of... It's only lacking SLI, Z68 chipset, and debug LED / on-board buttons that the Asrock Extreme3 has.

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 04:42 GMT

#1034

Hmmmm so the p8p67 is just that and the others different mobo's even though they have the p8p67 name? and p8p67 does allow overclocking just not SLI/crossfire?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 04:45 GMT

#1035

P8P67 LE is P8P67 LE, what is so hard to understand about that? P8 refers to the generation of ASUS boards, P67 is the chipset, and suffix denotes tier.

All P67 boards allow for overclocking. All P67 boards with two PCI-E x16 slots allow for CrossfireX (which includes the P8P67).

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 04:45 GMT

#1036

P8p67 It is this one right?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 04:45 GMT

#1037

Yes.

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 04:46 GMT

#1038

Thanks you for clearing this up for me, if all I plan to do is overclock and not SLI etc then I strictly just need the p8p67, correct?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 20 2012 04:50 GMT

#1039

Yes? P8P67 is a $150 board... are you sure you even want / need such an expensive board? If you're just looking for a board to overclock than you can just get the Asrock P67 Pro3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157230

tcho113

United States51 Posts

February 20 2012 04:50 GMT

#1040

Since you are giving me so much help I plan on building this:
i5-2500k
silver strider plus 500w
gigabyte ultra radeon 6950 1gb
Haf 912 by cooler master
p8p67
seagate barracuda 500gb 7200RPM
cooler master hyper 212 EVO

I plan on streaming, gaming sc2, hw

If you can critic anything it would be much appreciated(last question I promise)