BIOSTAR Unveils T-Power TA870 Series Motherboards Based on AMD 870 Chipset

[btarunr]

BIOSTAR, a professional manufacturer of motherboards today reveals its new AMD 870X chipset motherboards; both models “TA870+” and “TA870” are from the T-Series family representing high quality components and excellent overclocking capability. “TA870+” supports existing and upcoming socket AM3 processors, including Phenom II X6 core processor. “TA870+” is ATX form factor, powered by a 5 phase PWM supporting 140W processors; 100% X.D.C. solid capacitor, with two PCI-Express 2.0 slots and five SATA 6 Gb/s ports; on-board 8 channel audio with Blu-Ray support.

BIOSTAR’s AMD 8xx series chipset family motherboards have adopted 3 unique features to differentiate with others; they are “GTO 6³”, “BIO-unlocKING” and “BIO-Remote”. “GTO 6³”, it allows 60%+ overclocking capability on CPU frequency; it also supports true SATA 6 Gb/s for fast data transfer rate; and fully compatible with AMD Phenom II X6 six-core processors.



“BIO-unlocKING”, it provides the ease of use and flexibility to unlock extra core(s) for achieving greater performance at lower cost. “BIO-Remote”, with on-board Consumer IR header and optional “remote controller” certified by Microsoft makes a perfect combination for your in-home entertainments.

[eidairaman1]

The Asrock looks to be better spaced for the first PCI E port, now the first PCI port its pointless on that board.

[WarEagleAU]

Biostar is known for unlocking and ocing on a budget and it looks like they got another fine budget board on their hands. I do like their layout, but Asrock is a bit better on spacing, Ill give you that. Price wise, this should be nice, but Id love to see an 890FX and enthusiast version from them.

[eidairaman1]

Dont hear much about them as being used for Overclocking TBH, plus their ratings are horrible

[WSP]

enlighten me, but didn't biostar is the first board which breaks 700mhz with Tpower i45?
or that doesn't count as overclocking?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=193007

I think biostar made a decent board which doesnt cost an arm and a lenght.

still doenst like the look of their mobo though

[MKmods]

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

Dont hear much about them as being used for Overclocking TBH, plus their ratings are horrible

Especially the TForce stuff(all I used), I have been using their stuff for years and have been REALLY happy (but didnt like the old colors, new ones are nicer looking)

I dont like the closeness of the PCI X slots though..

[eidairaman1]

Originally Posted by WSP

enlighten me, but didn't biostar is the first board which breaks 700mhz with Tpower i45?
or that doesn't count as overclocking?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=193007

I think biostar made a decent board which doesnt cost an arm and a lenght.

still doenst like the look of their mobo though

That is only 1 board. Beyond that ratings on Newegg etc are horrible for the parts. I also bet that board was an engineering sample and not a final release product.

[TheGuruStud]

The boards themselves are pretty solid. The problems lie in the BIOS. They're just really buggy with certain things. They're outlasting Asus in my book as far as lifespan. Asus has gone downhill bad (I won't use them for myself any longer and only at all if the price is good enough).

I use biostar in budget builds and don't have any issues relating to them as long as no OCing is involved. That is hit or miss depending on the bios.

[eidairaman1]

Originally Posted by TheGuruStud

The boards themselves are pretty solid. The problems lie in the BIOS. They're just really buggy with certain things. They're outlasting Asus in my book as far as lifespan. Asus has gone downhill bad (I won't use them for myself any longer and only at all if the price is good enough).

I use biostar in budget builds and don't have any issues relating to them as long as no OCing is involved. That is hit or miss depending on the bios.

Asus put a bad taste in my mouth during the P4 Era, I had several customers come to me with machines with Asus boards that were faulty. ECS boards were more reliable. My first Asus board I had was junk and it was my last as Switching the video card to a different board maker fixed the issue. I never trusted Asus.

[TheGuruStud]

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

Asus put a bad taste in my mouth during the P4 Era, I had several customers come to me with machines with Asus boards that were faulty. ECS boards were more reliable. My first Asus board I had was junk and it was my last as Switching the video card to a different board maker fixed the issue. I never trusted Asus.

Intel anywhere in the Pentium 4 era was your problem there
As far as I remember the AMD Asus boards rocked back then.

AMD here since the Thoroughbreds

[eidairaman1]

Second Built machine P4 Northwood 2.4B, Asus P4S8X, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW, SB PCI 512, 460 Watt PSU, 1 Gig DDR. Issue was Crashing during games and random restarts, It required a Beta Bios, Several Driver Fixes, Bios Tweak, WIndows Tweaks Just to get compatible. I moved to AMD a year later and the Board was a MSI K7N2 Delta-L- Worked right out of the box with the video card.

[btarunr]

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

Dont hear much about them as being used for Overclocking TBH, plus their ratings are horrible

Biostar boards are champion overclockers. Records are set on them.

[eidairaman1]

ya only a few but You don't see anyone around here using them do you, I also bet those boards were cherry picked like the CPUs were. besides you

[btarunr]

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

ya only a few but You don't see anyone around here using them do you, I also bet those boards were cherry picked like the CPUs were.

Nah, retail TPower boards were used by freelance overclockers in record attempts. Biostar also sells value boards, but it doesn't advertise overclocking potential. When it does, the boards really work as advertised.

[MKmods]

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

ya only a few but You don't see anyone around here using them do you, I also bet those boards were cherry picked like the CPUs were. besides you

Especially the TForce stuff(all I used), I have been using their stuff for years and have been REALLY happy (but didnt like the old colors, new ones are nicer looking)