Can Biostar keep up with the big guns as they unleash their flagship AMD motherboard?
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OC3D Review Biostar TA890FXE
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the link doesn't work btw comes up as http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/biostar_ta890fxe_review/1
Edited, although the link is the same, it is working now
Edited, although the link is the same, it is working now
ok
just thought i should warn you
it is weird with the pcie slots all being together though
alienware
Banned
Tis a bit Richard that one.
Firstly the colour scheme is horrid. Red and black? win. Red black and white? lose.
The slot layout is absolutely awful meaning you could (as has been pointed out) only get away with dual double slotters, meaning the whole excercise is a bit pointless.
And the price? 'sa bad kitty.. The MSI fuzion thing reviewed last week costs less, looks a metric ton of poo better and is an MSI. I know it only had two PCIE slots (full size) but you ain't giving up anything considering this one here is laid out so that you can only use two at once any way.
I mean, who would want to fit single slot cards into a high performance PC?
So the MSI wins the day here for me. It also has Lucid and costs less (though arguably not by much) but when you consider that Lucid chip and the royalties cost a pretty penny? It just packs the mud down even harder over the grave of the Biostar's sealed fate.
Firstly the colour scheme is horrid. Red and black? win. Red black and white? lose.
The slot layout is absolutely awful meaning you could (as has been pointed out) only get away with dual double slotters, meaning the whole excercise is a bit pointless.
And the price? 'sa bad kitty.. The MSI fuzion thing reviewed last week costs less, looks a metric ton of poo better and is an MSI. I know it only had two PCIE slots (full size) but you ain't giving up anything considering this one here is laid out so that you can only use two at once any way.
I mean, who would want to fit single slot cards into a high performance PC?
So the MSI wins the day here for me. It also has Lucid and costs less (though arguably not by much) but when you consider that Lucid chip and the royalties cost a pretty penny? It just packs the mud down even harder over the grave of the Biostar's sealed fate.
silenthill
New member
(lack of ability to recover from failed overclocks) now that is a big problem and I don't recommend buying this board only if there is a solution with a later BIOS update.
alienware
Banned
Even EVGAs do that. You have to reset the cmos to get them back to life. It's totally not cool. In the one instant my Crosshair 2 failed to post all I needed to do was press the cmos clear on the back plane, then load back up my saved profile.
quequotion
New member
How can you change the reference clock?
The menu says "Enter Update" but pressing enter does nothing but refresh the screen.
Side note:
This board recovers quite well from failure.
It even has 10 slots to back up your BIOS settings built in, plus a method to recover the BIOS by USB memory stick.
It doesn't have a convenient switch so you can reset the CMOS without getting your hands dirty.
The menu says "Enter Update" but pressing enter does nothing but refresh the screen.
Side note:
This board recovers quite well from failure.
It even has 10 slots to back up your BIOS settings built in, plus a method to recover the BIOS by USB memory stick.
It doesn't have a convenient switch so you can reset the CMOS without getting your hands dirty.
You missed the point. When you push an overclock too far *most* motherboards will sort it out and return back to stock settings an allow the system to post.
This didnt.
