ASRock K7VM2 Review

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ASRock K7VM2
3.9 stars
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johng8seq's Review of ASRock K7VM2 Motherboard

12th Jan 2007

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3.5 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    4.5 stars
  • Time Motherboard Owned
    Over 1 Year
Good Points

It works. Audio quality is good and the 4 USB ports are useful.


Bad Points

On board graphics are poor. Jitter present, which is particularly noticeable on text. OK for watching video from DVD etc.


General Comments

I resurrected this board after it had been thrown away by my son. He had had problems with it randomly restarting. He was convinced it was either a mother board problem, an HDD problem or the PSU. Eliminating the HDD and PSU was easy leaving the mother board or processor. He bought another Asrock board and that was OK with his processor. Fortunately the memory wasn't suitable for the new motherboard.
Anyway I had his old memory, his motherboard and bought a second user processor (AMD 2 GHz) and a new case/PSU. After a lot of head banging I found the fault. With the two memory sticks in RAM it fell over frequently, failed to start properly etc. etc. Eventually I removed the 256 MB stick, just leaving the 512 Mb stick. Now it works fine except for the VDU o/p (My son always used an AGP card as it was better for gaming.) Now everything is OK I'll invest in a better graphics card.

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  • johng8seq Rank: Lance Corporal on 15th Jan 2007

    I've just fitted a GeFORCE FX5200 - cost £24 new, which has improved the display no end.

    John G8SEQ.