BIOSTAR announce upcoming motherboard features

[Thelosouvlakia]

Knowing a few things about electronics and having some IT experience, I can tell you that the SUN computers we have in one of our labs have been operational 24/7 since 2006 I think... 10 bloody years and only 4 units have gone down. And we are talking about labs that have 30 workstations each and no special environmental control. Toasty toasty environment, and those boards look basic, they don't even have vrm cooling for those 120W beast 2.4GHz Opterons/3GhZ...


Anyway... Thing is that not so many people trust MSI anymore, mixed feelings about Gigabyte really... it seems to be hit or miss. The way I see it happen will be companies like ECS and BIOSTAR will start to grow and improve in quality and wasn't supermicro going to release a gaming board in the near future?

 

[AlienALX]

Supermicro released a couple already dude, but yeah they have a couple more on the way. I don't think they hit Europe though, US only.

 

[Warchild]

Knowing a few things about electronics and having some IT experience, I can tell you that the SUN computers we have in one of our labs have been operational 24/7 since 2006 I think... 10 bloody years and only 4 units have gone down. And we are talking about labs that have 30 workstations each and no special environmental control. Toasty toasty environment, and those boards look basic, they don't even have vrm cooling for those 120W beast 2.4GHz Opterons/3GhZ...


Anyway... Thing is that not so many people trust MSI anymore, mixed feelings about Gigabyte really... it seems to be hit or miss. The way I see it happen will be companies like ECS and BIOSTAR will start to grow and improve in quality and wasn't supermicro going to release a gaming board in the near future?

It is certainly possible. Look at ASrock. Once a part of ASUS and created to compete against foxtronn, now successful enough to buy themselves outright and form their own company.

Interesting thing I came across were some stats from 2012

Company 2011 shipments in millions
Asustek 23
Gigabyte 17
ASRock 7.8
MSI 7
Biostar 6
ECS 5 5

Also found Toms hardware review of some biostar boards and if you jump to the last page, the results are pretty decent. Biostar comes out over ASrock in quite a few results. But as with all reviews, you can't say flat out that Biostar is better from one review.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asrock-biostar-gigabyte-msi-h170-motherboards,4494-7.html

They do seem to have terrible support on bios though according to the review. So if they want to compete with the big boys, they need to fix the basics.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I liked the bios tbh. Very simple and easy to navigate but I can see why some people would want more. I've been doing some poking around and seriously right now Biostar are cheap and tacky. Take a look at the panel they use with their "top end" motherboard.

It's really horrible and tacky. Cheap plastic, cheap plastic buttons and the crime of the century, green and pink audio jacks. Seriously, is this 1998?

I hope they can make some good boards. I mean let's face it, Gigabyte are not to be trusted any more (VRM skanks) MSI have a crap RMA base (don't hold replacements after they are EOL) and Asus are just downright pricey.

I have a contact in Taiwan, and he reckons within a couple of years we could be down to Asus and Gigabyte. MSI are not doing terribly well financially in the board department.

I'm surprised about MSI. My experience thus far with MSI boards has been very solid. They're also quite prolific in their releases; they have a decent variety of options, a couple with subtle aesthetics that can suit any build. While I haven't been especially looking, I've not heard any more reports of failures with MSI boards over anyone else. As everyone knows, one person could have two €600 ASUS boards fail in a row but have great success with a €200 ASRock board for many years. I could be totally wrong here, but it seems motherboard failure is almost like the silicon lottery; it doesn't matter who you go with as you're still liable to have to send it back for an RMA. The same applies to hard drives.

As for Gigabyte, I think maybe you're being a bit dramatic. Companies have screwed up before and correct themselves. Everyone and their dog still bought a 1070 even though the 970 specifications were at a lie at worse and a ridiculous mistake that should never have happened at best. EVGA screwed up their FTW GPU's. ASUS Strix from the previous generation had issues with the heatpipes not properly contacting the coldplate. These things happen. I don't want to right off a massive company because of a couple of failures. Many folks on forums express such dramatic sentiments; to then buy from the exact manufacturer they complained about a year later. I'm not suggesting you are that fickle, but that kind of stuff does happen, and it's pointless.

 

[Greenback]

Also found Toms hardware review of some biostar boards and if you jump to the last page, the results are pretty decent. Biostar comes out over ASrock in quite a few results. But as with all reviews, you can't say flat out that Biostar is better from one review.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asrock-biostar-gigabyte-msi-h170-motherboards,4494-7.html

They do seem to have terrible support on bios though according to the review. So if they want to compete with the big boys, they need to fix the basics.

Out of interest I looked the other day and their Z170 had some good reviews on different sites, but as I said at the start of the thread I didn't even know they were still going

 

[Warchild]

Out of interest I looked the other day and their Z170 had some good reviews on different sites, but as I said at the start of the thread I didn't even know they were still going

Yeah the performance is pretty good. However the BIOS really lets them down.