ASRock 4Core1600P35-Wifi+ overclocking

OCWorkbench has a first look on the overclocking abilities of the new motherboard from ASRock.
Not bad for a P35 chipset, it's actually very good, but I hesitate about ASRock motherboards and overclocking - and reliability.
Not a long time ago there was a BIOS for an ASRock based on SiS748 that did the same "reset and loose your overclock" behavior that Anandtech reported on the new X48 based Gigabyte board. Recently things haven't got any better, lots of ASRock motherboards have been in my hands and, the only ones that were good, started malfunctioning in less than 2 years. This new approach of using all solid capacitors should help with that particular problem though.

This may turn out to be a good product, but be on the look out for problems. OCWorkbench doesn't have the habit of thoroughly testing the overclocking, like the folks at Anandtech or Xbitlabs do, so even if this kind of overclocking was stable, I wouldn't be confident it was going to be reliable 24/7 until I had a board in my hands for a few weeks. Quad-core overclocking was not disclosed at publishing time.
On the plus side ASRock seems to have spent some considerable engineering on this board and wants to grab the mainstream market, so we could be in for a surprise.
Rumors also state that ASRock may soon be releasing boards based on the new nForce 680i and 650i revisions.

I leave you with yet another version of this board, it's exactly the same, but doesn't have Firewire support and it's called the 4Core1600P35-Wifi.

Keywords: 4Core1600P35-Wifi+ overclocking Intel P35