Oppinions about ASROCK socket A K7S41GX

[mitarbl]

Any expirience on this mainboard?Can you watch DVD-s and Divx-s without tilting with this mainboard some 2200+ Athlon and 512 MB Ram?

 

[Peter]

The SiS graphics unit does have DVD acceleration. Divx might be a close call, but should be OK.

What I didn't like about this mainboard is the stupid position of the COM2 and USB headers, way too close to PCI cards you possibly want to plug in. Also, I didn't get a Hauppauge PCI TV card to work in it, apparently due to a disagreement on the usage of the graphics card overlay buffer.

On the bottom line, for a 2D media oriented PC I'd rather go with a VIA chipset.

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Check out my review of the Foxconn mobo using the same chipset.