Asrock is an AIB (add in board partner) very very few "makers" (Asus, MSI, Asrock, EVGA etc) have anything to do with the design or manufacture of the boards in question besides sometimes using their own fans or a more customized bios, they "order" the finished card and slap stickers on it, or sometimes when doing "custom" designs they do their own fans or own Vregs etc (though very few AIB are large enough to even bother going this high up the design side, the larger ones such as Sapphire, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte do, I am really not so sure if the remainder of Radeon partners do this, beyond "ordering" as a finished product besides maybe just using their own fans or a more customized bios style)
that being said, weird Asrock would even bother "expanding their lines" because as of yet I have NOT seen a SINGLE Radeon graphics cards from them for sale anywhere, almost seems like paper launching potential products more than anything else at this point A and B, I live in Canada, 100% direct within country RMA is either Asus or MSI (sadly) which means all the other gpu "makers" at least for Radeon while cool or neat are not even on my radar.
some of them that the gpu has to get shipped to USA (such as Sapphire, Gigabyte, XFX, Asrock) which all of them have numerous horror stories and extra cost to do this vs just shipping within country, let alone some of the others which are completely off my radar (Visiontek, Diamond, Powercolor)....I really really do not get how ANY gpu or cpu would be "dead on arrival" if they were 100% properly tested for voltages, temperatures and so forth before they were put into a box and sold as a "working unit" and when they are not the customer has to pay extra to send it to the AIB who may or may not replace through RMA something that should have worked properly right off the bat.
"This is why we cannot always have nice things"...proper QC goes a very long way, these things are not exactly dirt cheap purchases after all.
I refuse to buy anything Ngreedia for many reasons, so for me it is Radeon or nothing (for graphics) with the very rare exception of an Intel cpu that has their own igp built into it.
On another note, "comparable pricing" means "greed priced by sellers when it actually hits the store shelf" because "miners buy them all so we will shaft EVERYONE on the price because we have no control over it" >:(
but the way this article is written, this is 100% and OEM style GPU directly from AMD hands into Asrock hands who provides the box, manuals, driver disk (possibly) extra things such as pci-e power cables and/or warranty support, it has essentially nothing to do with AMD when it is sold to Asrock (besides Catalyst/Crimson drivers)
The phantom gaming lineup with radeon rx cards provides the better version of the graphic card, https://justabout.co/gmail-support-canada/ which help us to enjoy the high gaming quality graphics.
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Gunbuster - Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - link
Don't these all come from the same ODM factory? It's basically ASRock providing the box art and warranty support right?Dragonstongue - Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - link
Asrock is an AIB (add in board partner) very very few "makers" (Asus, MSI, Asrock, EVGA etc) have anything to do with the design or manufacture of the boards in question besides sometimes using their own fans or a more customized bios, they "order" the finished card and slap stickers on it, or sometimes when doing "custom" designs they do their own fans or own Vregs etc (though very few AIB are large enough to even bother going this high up the design side, the larger ones such as Sapphire, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte do, I am really not so sure if the remainder of Radeon partners do this, beyond "ordering" as a finished product besides maybe just using their own fans or a more customized bios style)that being said, weird Asrock would even bother "expanding their lines" because as of yet I have NOT seen a SINGLE Radeon graphics cards from them for sale anywhere, almost seems like paper launching potential products more than anything else at this point A and B, I live in Canada, 100% direct within country RMA is either Asus or MSI (sadly) which means all the other gpu "makers" at least for Radeon while cool or neat are not even on my radar.
some of them that the gpu has to get shipped to USA (such as Sapphire, Gigabyte, XFX, Asrock) which all of them have numerous horror stories and extra cost to do this vs just shipping within country, let alone some of the others which are completely off my radar (Visiontek, Diamond, Powercolor)....I really really do not get how ANY gpu or cpu would be "dead on arrival" if they were 100% properly tested for voltages, temperatures and so forth before they were put into a box and sold as a "working unit" and when they are not the customer has to pay extra to send it to the AIB who may or may not replace through RMA something that should have worked properly right off the bat.
"This is why we cannot always have nice things"...proper QC goes a very long way, these things are not exactly dirt cheap purchases after all.
I refuse to buy anything Ngreedia for many reasons, so for me it is Radeon or nothing (for graphics) with the very rare exception of an Intel cpu that has their own igp built into it.
On another note, "comparable pricing" means "greed priced by sellers when it actually hits the store shelf" because "miners buy them all so we will shaft EVERYONE on the price because we have no control over it" >:(
but the way this article is written, this is 100% and OEM style GPU directly from AMD hands into Asrock hands who provides the box, manuals, driver disk (possibly) extra things such as pci-e power cables and/or warranty support, it has essentially nothing to do with AMD when it is sold to Asrock (besides Catalyst/Crimson drivers)
Icer Jo - Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - link
They are currently available at Newegg, so this is no longer just a paper launchIcer Jo - Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - link
Actually I overlooked the Part about you being in Canada, On the US Newegg site they have the Vega 64 up for sell, but on the Canada site they don't.johnparker321 - Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - link
The phantom gaming lineup with radeon rx cards provides the better version of the graphic card, https://justabout.co/gmail-support-canada/ which help us to enjoy the high gaming quality graphics.