http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Ignore the marketing speak. 'Military class' could mean just about anything, like it sits in a military office, but the first thing that springs to my mind would be hardware durable enough to go into an aircraft for example, so heavily shielded against interference. Which may be useful... if you're planning on building an F-22 running Windows
Also, ask yourself why it would be "Military Class III"... apart from the possibility that they had labelled older boards as "Military Class" but wanted this one to sound better.
A quick bit of googling suggests that they might use better components on 'military class' motherboards, but better than what?
I think its a design choice as to whether to halt it before the splash screen or during the splash screen. Every motherboard needs time to POST. The more features you cram into the motherboard, the longer it will take but it also depends if the manufacturer chooses to initialize every single component.
ok as I have said before. I am in Canada. I wanted the Asrock Extreme 4, my friend has it. In USA it's $120. In Canada it's $160 the cheapest, $180 normally BEFORE takes and shipping.
I like my MSI mobo ok so far (Z77A) but who knows, it could stop working in less than a year, with the luck i have with computer parts it most likely will. Not planning to overclock so can't speak on the abilities of that. Boot up is slower than I would like, it hangs for a few seconds on bootup with some screen that just shows an "A2" in the bottom right corner. I wonder if there is anything I can do to speed up the boot up process.
I've had really bad luck with ASrock boards but it's all a crapshoot really.
ps: does anyone else see a page 5 on this thread but it's not actually there?
I was one of the members here leading the crowd with torches and pitchforks at that point in time. I do not know if it was their power regulation design or what, but they definitely seemed to suffer worse than most the other board makers during the bad cap days. Despite my reservations, I tried them again a couple years later and have been happy with them since. I just last night replaced a MSI K8N Neo4 SLI with stuff I bought here in FS/FT. I built it in 05, and it ran flawlessly with a X2 3800+ OC all that time. The board was priced well for that gen and feature set, and came with SBL 24-bit Hardware audio built in. I used some of their boards for customers, and all were issue free right up till the client upgraded systems.
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