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  • A Biostar's J1800TH is Thin Mini-ITX Board for Embedded Applications

    - in Articles > Motherboards

    In what appears to be a product named after us, Biostar has built the J1800TH. Unfortunately, the TH does not stand for Tom's Hardware but rather just 'thin,' referring to the form factor. This is a Thin Mini-ITX board with a J

  • A Biostar Announces the Hi-Fi Z97Z7 Motherboard

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    Biostar is announcing its new Hi-Fi Z97Z7, a Z97 motherboard with the LGA1150 socket; it's a fairly mainstream Z97 board that has a couple of interesting features. Wired to the LGA1150 socket are four DDR3 memory slots that support

  • A Biostar's New Motherboard Has Dual Gigabit Ethernet

    - in Articles > Motherboards

      Biostar announced the new Hi-Fi B85S2G motherboard, built to bring a good value to small businesses, but the company's targeting is a bit confusing. The motherboard has an LGA 1150 socket, wired to two DDR3 memory slots and the B

  • A Fast And Cheap? Five Sub-$160 Z87 Motherboards For Enthusiasts

    - in Articles > Biostar

    Biostar Hi-Fi Z87X 3D The name of Biostar’s latest $150 motherboard is much more than a bunch of SEO (search-engine optimized) terms smashed together. The firm promises technology to back its Hi-Fi Z87X 3D’s title. For instance, a group of transistors for its

    Affordable Z87 Express Motherboards: Not Quite "Back To Basics" .   ASRock Z87 Extreme4 Asus Z87-Plus Biostar Hi-Fi Z87X 3D Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H MSI Z87-G45 Gaming PCB Revision 1.06 1.02 5.0 1.0 1.2 Chipset Intel Z87 Express Intel Z87 Express Intel Z87 Express Intel Z87 Express Intel

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    Hi-Fi Z87X 3D Firmware Biostar’s O.N.E. menu is now nothing more than a launching point for menus that host actual settings, with one exception: the “Start” page for consecutive UEFI entry can now be set here. A trend emerges as we continue

    Hi-Fi Z87X 3D Software Biostar’s TOverclocker utility changes slightly from our previous description in response to the Z87 platform’s alterations. We were able to verify CPU core voltage, multiplier, and base clock functions. Other

    Z87X-UD3H Firmware .6 GHz at 1.25 V. Gigabyte still uses the term “Uncore Ratio” for portions of the CPU that ASRock/Asus now call “Cache Ratio” and Biostar calls “Ring Bus Frequency”. Because this ratio affects many of the same items

    Results: Audio And Video Encoding Lower is better for our audio and video tests. Biostar takes first place by a tiny margin in only one benchmark. Asus' Z87-Plus falls one second behind in two tests.

    Results: Productivity Biostar and Gigabyte both fall a couple seconds behind the pack in 3ds Max, but the benchmark takes so long that two seconds isn’t significant.

    Power, Heat, And Efficiency average. Meanwhile, Biostar’s similar 1%-over-average result takes us by surprise. The reason we show performance on an efficiency page is that it’s an easy way to compare work to energy. In this case, the comparison is work over

    Overclocking over 2133 MT/s have an insignificant impact on most of our performance benchmarks. More bandwidth is mostly useful for gaming through the on-die HD Graphics 4600 engine. Asus and Biostar take top honors here.

    When Picking A Winner Is Almost Impossible Four out of five motherboards in today’s review were top CPU overclockers. Though it means less to overall system performance, two of those boards were also top DRAM overclockers. That tie goes to Asus' Z87-Plus and Biostar's Hi-Fi Z87X 3

  • A Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System Builders

    - in Articles > Buyer's Guide

    Welcome to our most-anticipated event of the year, the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide! Today, in Part 1, we have three of our most stunning models ever displaying an arousing array of components for your system config consideration. Deep breath...

  • A Biostar Reveals a New Budget FM2+ Motherboard

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    Biostar has announced a new motherboard – the A88MQ. This motherboard is a fairly standard entry-level motherboard with an FM2+ socket and an AMD A88X chipset, built on the Micro-ATX form factor. The CPU is fed power through a five

  • A Biostar's Flagship Z97 Motherboard Debuts

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    Biostar has announced its highest-end Z97 motherboard – the Hi-Fi Z97WE. This motherboard is a fairly standard ATX board with the new Z97 chipset, though it does come with improved onboard audio hardware and one additional Ethernet

  • A Biostar Announces New Hi-Fi Motherboards with Dual-GbE

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    Biostar has announced three new motherboards: the Hi-Fi B85S2G, the Hi-Fi A88S2G, and the Hi-Fi B85N 3D. These motherboards sit together in an announcement as they all feature dual-Gigabit Ethernet. Exactly why the Hi-Fi B85N 3

  • A Biostar's BTC-24GH ASIC Board is Equal to 30 Radeon 7970s

    - in Articles > Bitcoins

    Biostar has announced a new motherboard, though we question the use of the word motherboard. The new board that Biostar has announced is the BTC-24GH which, as its name indicates, is a board built for mining bitcoins and features

  • A Biostar Reveals Lineup of Socket AM1 Motherboards

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    Biostar has announced a triplet of socket AM1 motherboards, which are also the first AM1 motherboards the company has built. The three motherboards are largely identical to each other, with a couple of subtle differences. They'll

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