I built a system with an Asrock A880GMH-US3 using an AMD Athlon X4 640, 8GB DDR3, onboard graphics (With the MOBO's built in 128MB Graphics Ram) back in 2010 for an elderly gentleman just for emails, facebook and web browsing, it's still going fine. (Even if it's Anecdotal.)
I think 15 years is a good run, not in a rush to replace it considering it handles everything just fine and is still quick and responsive and problem free.
Asrock was always the "budget" brand to Asus, but in the last several years their quality had stepped up and they started making premium facing products.
Asrock is *huge* in the motherboard space, they are actually the third largest brand... With several markets where they have 60% marketshare or more, completely decimating Asus and Gigabyte. I.E. South Korea and Japan.
https://wccftech.com/asrock-beats-asus-in-overall-motherboard-market-share-in-japan-first-time-in-10-years/
In saying that, I will always go Asus, their Firmware and Drivers tend to be better than competitors... And there is never any bizarre behavior like with Gigabyte boards and vdroop.
I am actually surprised we haven't seen any rush to the bottom with Chinese manufacturers filling in the budget sector for motherboards these last few years, they have infiltrated everything else, that could potentially disrupt Asrock.
Hopefully these quality issues are just isolated incidents, the internet likes to make small things into big issues when they aren't.
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