Tatty_Two
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Processor | Rocket Lake Core i5 11600K @ 5 Ghz with PL tweaks |
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Motherboard | MSI MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK |
Cooling | Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE + 4 Phanteks 140mm case fans |
Memory | 32GB (4 x 8GB SR) Patriot Viper Steel 4133Mhz DDR4 @ 3600Mhz CL14@1.45v Gear 1 |
Video Card(s) | Asus Dual RTX 4070 OC |
Storage | WD Blue SN550 1TB M.2 NVME//Crucial MX500 500GB SSD (OS) |
Display(s) | AOC Q2781PQ 27 inch Ultra Slim 2560 x 1440 IPS |
Case | Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Windowed - Gunmetal |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard Realtek ALC1200/SPDIF to Sony AVR @ 5.1 |
Power Supply | Seasonic CORE GM650w Gold Semi modular |
Mouse | Coolermaster Storm Octane wired |
Keyboard | Element Gaming Carbon Mk2 Tournament Mech |
Software | Win 10 Home x64 |
For those of you that know me well, you will know that I am a great fan of Biostar boards, certainly their more recent offerings, low cost, decent specs, decent overclockability. I bought the Biostar Hifi Z97WE a little over a year ago, partly because of Dave's review of the board, if my memory serves me correct he scored it 9.8 and was very impressed. I am happy to say I have had a really good 14 months trouble free use and am very pleased with it.
So, some of you will be thinking...... "OK there is a "but" coming" and you would be right, but nothing to do with the reliability or performance of the board. Long story short......... I contacted Biostar Customer Support a few weeks ago to enquire on their Z97 boards compatibility with the relatively new S1150 i5 5675C and i7 5775C processors as I couldn't see any information or a Bios update to support the processors.
Eventually I got a reply saying that none of their Z97 boards supported these CPU's as they required "significant hardware updates" and a Bios update alone would not give compatibility. I won't bore you with the resulting exchanges of questions and answers that I raised because it just felt that they were trying to mislead me and when I showed a little knowledge they kind of backtracked, but to be fair at all times they were very polite, as was I.
So to today, I got home to an e note from them and I copy and paste it below.............
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Steven
2015-11-18 11:55:14
Dear Sir
Before Intel lauch 5000 series CPU, we already made the motherboard.
However, we don't have new motherboard version for support these 5000 series CPU and already EOL(end of live) for all Z97 chipset motherboard.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
So just as a heads up, for anyone considering buying any Biostar Z97 board which was only released by them in 2014 as a budget/mid ranged Haswell/Devil's Canyon build, please be aware that before you even purchase the board it is already EOL and won't support any current or future socket 1150 CPU's beyond Devils Canyon. To be honest I couldn't believe it!
So, some of you will be thinking...... "OK there is a "but" coming" and you would be right, but nothing to do with the reliability or performance of the board. Long story short......... I contacted Biostar Customer Support a few weeks ago to enquire on their Z97 boards compatibility with the relatively new S1150 i5 5675C and i7 5775C processors as I couldn't see any information or a Bios update to support the processors.
Eventually I got a reply saying that none of their Z97 boards supported these CPU's as they required "significant hardware updates" and a Bios update alone would not give compatibility. I won't bore you with the resulting exchanges of questions and answers that I raised because it just felt that they were trying to mislead me and when I showed a little knowledge they kind of backtracked, but to be fair at all times they were very polite, as was I.
So to today, I got home to an e note from them and I copy and paste it below.............
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Steven
2015-11-18 11:55:14
Dear Sir
Before Intel lauch 5000 series CPU, we already made the motherboard.
However, we don't have new motherboard version for support these 5000 series CPU and already EOL(end of live) for all Z97 chipset motherboard.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
So just as a heads up, for anyone considering buying any Biostar Z97 board which was only released by them in 2014 as a budget/mid ranged Haswell/Devil's Canyon build, please be aware that before you even purchase the board it is already EOL and won't support any current or future socket 1150 CPU's beyond Devils Canyon. To be honest I couldn't believe it!