So I've noticed something about ASRock's motherboard drivers

[Bateluer]

Every so often, I skim the download page for my motherboard to check for updated drivers, bios, utilities, etc. And every time, I just check the dates. And every time its been 10/7/2013, a month before I built this machine.

This evening, I had cause to suspect a pump failure on my Corsair H60 water cooler, which required that I download the AXTU monitoring utility. I noticed there was a LiveUpdate tab to scanned installed driver versions and what not. On a whim, I ran it. To my surprise, I found that every item it scanned was out of date. Some, ludicrously out of date, if the version number is indication.

Seems that ASRock doesn't update the posted dates, though they do update the drivers posted. So new versions are there, just under an October 2013 date. Much convenience.

 

[coolpurplefan]

If you check the download page regularly, would you have an idea how much time it takes them to come out with a new BIOS once a new CPU comes out? (I'm waiting to buy a CPU for my Asrock Fatat1ty H87 Performance motherboard. It's kind of weird because I don't know if I can buy a BIOS chip for that mobo that would take the Haswell refresh CPUs.)

 

[escrow4]

I'd prefer to stick with better quality mobo makers after reading all about Asrock's VRMs. Their boards are wafer thin too. Pretty meh overall.

 

[Bateluer]

If you check the download page regularly, would you have an idea how much time it takes them to come out with a new BIOS once a new CPU comes out?

At least the BIOS versions are fairly easy to read, but sorry to say, I can't answer that question. I only looked specifically for my board, which has now been on the market about 10 months. BIOS updates come quicker early in the life then taper off as the model goes EOL.

I'd prefer to stick with better quality mobo makers after reading all about Asrock's VRMs. Their boards are wafer thin too. Pretty meh overall.

Shrug, this Z87 Extreme4 had positive reviews and its been stable as a rock since I built it in November. The Z77 Extreme3 I had before was similarly positively reviewed and stable for the 2 years it was in my system.

 

[pauldun170]

I'd prefer to stick with better quality mobo makers after reading all about Asrock's VRMs. Their boards are wafer thin too. Pretty meh overall.

Are you talking about the D-PAK mosfets on the extreme4?

My first reaction was to panic since I run a 2700K + Extreme4 build but then I t dawned on me that this thing has been running flawlessly for quite some time.

Guess I'll be skipping max overclock contests