Odins Fist, on 11 June 2012 - 07:47 PM, said:
I get the point just fine, don't get mad but he said he was going to get a 3rd party sound card/interface for "recording", and I can say this with absolute correctness, "NO" onboard sound is used by any serious musician, nor does it have the correct interfaces, and going off into this direction is kind of getting away from the whole point of the Original Posters request as far as bordering on the point of an "actual" argument.
.
"third largest motherboard manufacturer behind Asus and Gigabyte." says coming in at 3rd place for $5.00 more(not that 5 is anything).. In addtion for my friend, he is doing more than just fine with what he "already has" (GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX) so your recommendtion is bordering on a lightly veiled insult to something that "I", and especially "HE" already know works . So I see no problem in having mulitple recommendations, and i'm not saying "absolutely Avoid at all costs the AsRock MOBO", I was only pointing what what I "know" in practice is already working for the same amount of money the OP said he ws willing to spend. I don't feel the need to get into a (you know what) measuring contest over any of this... On a side note I was into music recording/production, and toured with 3 different bands from 1999 to 2005 as the front man, and was involved heavily in the recording proccess (even some to this very day), and I can tell will all confidence that I have never seen one musician/production that used 3.5 connections (which onboard audio is) used by anyone even remotely serious about recording music tracks, not even with Cool Edit Pro 2 from back in the day...
.
I'm sorry if I seemed to go off on a rant, but it seems to me that being as honest, and truthful, using experience and knowledge as the basis for my recommendations shouldn't be treated with the amount of dismissal that (and I may be wrong) seems to be directed at anything I posted as advice. In the industry that I deal with AsRock is "still" considered" a budget quality" Mobo, am I wrong.?? I don't think I am, but I also said I have used them for others, but they were "always" trying to find the budget Mobo... Sorry if that came out in a mean way, it was not intended to be so.
I felt that you are saying that all AsRock motherboards are budget boards and subpar in performance. I'm not saying specifically for your friend, I thought you were referring to your friend as not having bought it already, I see I misread that. However, the point on the integrated sound is not for your friend but in consideration for the OP. I feel that you are misunderstanding my point as well. What I am saying is that an AsRock motherboard which gives you more extras compared to a similarly priced Gigabyte board, with just as high quality parts and gold caps for the capacitors, is going to be of a better value for the OP and therefore I believe a better decision for the small $5 difference.
Going with only what someone "knows" works causes the lack of moving forward, as reluctance to change leads to reluctance for improvement.
And while I won't go on an ethics spiel, last time I checked Gigabyte was manufactured by Foxconn if that is of any consideration for the OP.
As far as being considered budget quality.... I don't quite understand whether it is within those you trade with, as what I have found through hardware enthusiast channels that AsRock has greatly increased their quality in the last couple of years. Maybe it takes some time for retailers to consider it the same, but eh.
And by 3rd place that is in sales.... not sure how you get that 3rd place means 3rd rate quality or the like....
5
