BIOSTAR Announces TA70U3-LSP Socket FM2+ Motherboard

[btarunr]

BIOSTAR has released the latest mainboard, based on the exclusive A70M chipset from AMD, the TA70U3-LSP, which offers LAN Surge Protection built directly into the board. The TA70U3-LSP supports FM2+ APUs, USB 3.0 and SATA3. AMD A70M chipset (exclusive from BIOSTAR) supports USD 3.0 and SATA3, it becomes the best upgrade option of current entry level A58 chipset boards.

The TA70U3-LSP is based on the AMD FM2+ socket design that will support AMD Multi-Core (x4, x2) socket FM2+/FM2 processors AMD A-series/ E2-series processors all in a full-sized ATX form factor. It has 3 PCI slots and 2 DIMM slots supporting up to 32Gb of DDR3 ram and uses the newest SATA 6Gb/s bus which is twice the speed of current SATA 3G connections with 6 SATA connectors along with USB 3.0. There is also support for AMD Dual Graphics Technology, as well as support for full HDMI 3D 1080p.



Additionally, the TA70U3-LSP has LSP which stands for Lan Surge Protection. This is done by adding an integrated chip, directly into the board to strengthen electrical stability and prevent damage from lightning strikes and electrical surges. Electronic systems can be damaged or destroyed by electrical surges. These are voltages which are much greater than the normal working voltage and which appear in a system for a short period of time.

BIOSTAR wants to insure that the motherboards have a high degree of protection from such surges by the use of hardware devices, directly built into the motherboard, which limit surge voltages reaching protected equipment to safe levels.

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[micropage7]

looks nice and line spacer for audio components looks good
btw somehow the yellow color reminds me of some gigabyte boards

 

[suraswami]

somebody was really hibernating for quite a while!!

 

[damric]

I have lost a board due to lightning strike (as well as many other applainces on surge protectors that day). I doubt any amount of surge protection would stop a lightning bolt. Dave should put one of these gimmicks to the test. I'm sure he can replicate a lightning bolt

 

[xfia]

a exclusive chipset on a new fm2+ carrizo coming for desktop???

 

[WaroDaBeast]

I have lost a board due to lightning strike (as well as many other applainces on surge protectors that day). I doubt any amount of surge protection would stop a lightning bolt. Dave should put one of these gimmicks to the test. I'm sure he can replicate a lightning bolt

I can assure you that surge protection does indeed work.

I once forgot to unplug the router cable during a lighting storm, as I had been used to a UPS that had RJ11 protection (the UPS I had when that storm occured didn't have an RJ11 plug). So, lightning destroyed my router and the LAN chip on my motherboard.

The rest of the motherboard components are perfectly fine, and I'm still using it without any failures so far.

But anyway, I usually unplug everything when a storm hits us, even when my appliances have surge protection. Not worth the risk.