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ASRock 4Core1333-Viiv

An old favourite returns

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Last reviewed: February 25th

Cheap but nothing new here

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Once again Asrock has done some of us a favour and taken last year's chipset and made it compatible with this year's technology.

This relatively cheap motherboard is based not on any cutting-edge chipset, but on Intel's aging 965 platform.

Dodgy layout

Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but an almost complete lack of overclocking control coupled with the worst board layout in living history really puts us off this one.

For some inane reason the main 20-pin power cable is situated not on the convenient edge of the board where you'd expect it to be, but right in the middle, where the cable is bound to get in the way of things more than ever.

This sort of cavalier attitude coupled with some really lacklustre performance sinks this Asrock offering to the bottom of the barrel.

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Price at Launch 62
Features Expresscard Slot / CPU Bus Support: 533/800/1066/1333 / Memory Support: DDR2 800 /
Additional Information Rear ports: 1xeSATA, 4xUSB, 1xFirewire, 1xEthernet, 6xaudio / Additional headers: 3xUSB, 1xFirewire / BIOS Overclock Options: CPU clock, PCIE clock, memory timings, 3x voltage controls
Chipset Type Intel 965
Compatible Processors Intel
Connections Ethernet
Motherboard Type ATX
No of PCI Express x1 Slots 1
No of PCI Express x16 slots 1
No of PCI Express x4 slots 1
Number of PCI Slots 3
Number Of USB Ports On Motherboard 4
Processor Socket LGA775 Socket
Storage/Storage Controller 6xSATA, 1xIDE

Product Summary

4CORE1333-VIIV

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Key specs

Price at Launch 62 | MPN | Chipset Type Intel 965 | Compatible Processors Intel |

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Compatible with recent technology

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Poor performance; Awkward layout

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