It also has a 2 year warranty.
The one I recommended has a 3 year warranty.
For what he's doing, he won't notice a difference, so the warranty is worth more than the "sexy" design.
I like that ASRock is getting better, but where they save money is on the length of the warranty, and for me, that's a MAJOR compromise.
you seriously think 1 year of warranty is worth:
-4+1 power delivery design- seriously going to limit overclocks past about 4.4Ghz
-Cruddy ASUS low end reputation-LE boards are the bottom of the line for a reason
-Lack of 8x8x Crossfire - 16x4x is going to be a serious bottleneck on whatever card is in the 4x slot
-Lack of SLI entirely-severely limits upgrade options with nvidia cards (which he has).
-wonky sata port placement- if you put a card in the second slot, it is going to cover 2 of the 4 ports on the bottom.
-P67 chipset-with Z68 out, why go with something that is already outdated?
-No post code LED- I find these extremely helpful for diagnosing problems, others could care less, to each their own
-No onboard pwr/rst switches-again, i find these extremely handy, much easier than trying to short the pins with a screw driver.
-No onboard video ports-Again, for diagnosing problems, they are useful. Also you get Lucid virtu support, saves a bit of power.
The only real advantages that i can think of with the LE are:
-As you mentioned 1 year longer warranty
-ASUS' EFI is a bit more matured and refined
In this situation i really don't think the pros of the LE out way the cons.
