ASRock
More info
- Released
- 2002
- Owner
- Pegatron
- Type
- Motherboard maker
ASUS's budget label that grew up into a competitor with its own, occasionally peculiar, taste.
It was spun off from ASUS in 2002 to sell cheap motherboards without diluting the parent brand. When ASUS split itself up, ASRock ended up under Pegatron, which left the ASUS connection mostly a matter of history.
ASRock became known for boards nobody else would build: hybrids with both AGP and PCI Express slots, or support for two memory generations on the same board, so upgrades could happen in instalments. Server boards followed under the ASRock Rack name, and from 2018 graphics cards with Radeon chips from AMD – the very corner of the market that EVGA later abandoned.