ASROCK, A-Style, Your Lifestyle

Last August GrabTechDude.net was invited in press launch of the the ASROCK A-Style, Your Lifestyle which presented the latest motherboards.  Honestly this is the first time I've heard ASRock so I made a little run through of the products and their company.

According to their website ASRock Inc. made its way in the market in 2002 which specialized in the field of motherboards.  ASRock strives to build up its own brand with their 3C design concept which are “Creativity, Consideration, Cost-effectiveness”.   The company explores the limit of motherboards manufacturing while paying attention on the eco issue at the same time, developing products with the consideration of eco-friendly concept.

ASRock has been indeed growing fast and has become world third largest motherboard brand with their headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in Europe and the USA. The young and vibrant company targets from mainstream to enthusiast MB segments for different kinds of users, owning reputation around the world market with its reliability and proficiency.

Though ASRock is still new I think this brand has indeed answered most of the problems and needs for a motherboard.

Home Cloud lets users connect to their PC's from anywhere in the world at anytime, just as long as there is internet connection available. Even if the target computer is in sleep state or turned off, Home Cloud will power on that PC and let you remotely control it with a smartphone, tablet or another computer.  Note: Intel Remote Wake is supported on Win8 or Win8 64bit OS.

Purity Sound is a combination of several hardware, software audio solutions and technologies that will satisfy even the pickiest audiophiles. Including 7.1 CH HD audio with Realtek ALC1150 audio codec, 115dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier, TI® 5532 Premium Headset Amplifier which supports up to 600 ohm headphones, cap less Direct Drive technology, EMI shielding cover, PCB isolate shielding and support for DTS Connect.

Conductive liquids such as water pretty much destroy all kinds of electronics on contact. That's why ASRock has implemented a special layer of Conformal Coating on our motherboards, which makes the motherboards invulnerable to conductive liquids, corrosion and dust. Users won't have to worry about spilling liquid nitrogen, liquid helium or even clam chowder over their motherboards while overclocking.

*Conformal Coating may protect the motherboard against conductive liquids, but only to a certain extent. To avoid damaging your computer and other components, we still advise users to keep liquids a safe distance away.

802.11ac WiFi is a new wireless computer networking standard that provides high-throughput wireless local area networks on the 5GHz band with data transferring speeds up to 867Mbps. Get a kick out of the fastest connections with ASRock's 2T2R Dual Band 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth v4.0!

Tired of constantly switching devices to connect to your one and only monitor? From now on just connect the monitor to your motherboard, and connect your secondary device to the motherboard's HDMI-In port. With HDMI-In users may conveniently toggle between the computer's screen and the secondary device's screen with a hotkey, or even use their secondary device without powering on the computer.