A Quick Glimpse of the Biostar TP67XE and TH67XE
by Ian Cutress on September 29, 2010 9:44 AM EST- Posted in
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The other offering from Biostar comes in the form of a micro-ATX board and the TH67XE. This board has visually changed since Computex, sporting less SATA 3Gb/s ports, smaller heatsinks and a different position of the 24-pin power connector. The PCB itself is a little busier than the P67 variant, but it comes with a few video out connectors. There’s still a few flaws to point out though.
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First of which is the positioning of the SATA 6Gb/s ports. Because they’re coming out of the board, rather than 90º to it, the minute a user decides to stick in a long card into the second PCIe slot , both of those ports will be covered by the card, leaving only three SATA 3Gb/s ports available. Using both the large PCIe slots with dual slot cards will result in the PCIe x1 and the PCI being unavailable.
If you use only single slot PCIe, this motherboard could probably cater for your needs. A similar back panel arrangement to the P67, though with a few less USB 2.0 ports in exchange for your D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI connectors. USB 3.0 via the NEC controller is still there, along with onboard 7.1 HD Audio, gigabit ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, firewire and e-SATA. On the board itself, there’s enough headers for six more USB 2.0 ports, (again) a sole non-CPU fan header as well as easy power/reset switches. No debug error code display this time though, but with this board, we wouldn’t really expect it.
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Kudos to Biostar for giving the community something to dissect. If these are indeed final production boards, we look forward to seeing improved layouts over future iterations over the socket lifetime. Then we’ll come and tackle your BIOS and performance.
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DustinF00 - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - link
I'd like to plan an upgrade around a new board.MrCommunistGen - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - link
At the top of page 2: "sporting less SATA 3Gb/s ports" should use "fewer" instead of "less" for things you count. Example (food): Our product has less fat. vs. Our product has fewer grams of fat.iamkyle - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - link
Generally BIOStar and quality are never used in the same sentence.However, it will be nice to see what the fringe competitors can offer performance-wise vs. the mb heavyweights.
Rajinder Gill - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - link
Hi,Apart from the quirky layout, the Biostar TPOWER I55 is not a bad board at all. Both Kane Jeong and I use one for our daily rigs. Kane's got no complaints, while the only one I have is that AHCI mode seems to play havoc with my Blu-Ray drive for some reason. Other than that, quite a solid all-round board for Lynnfield.
-Raja
n8a - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - link
It looks like there is a DP port on the H67 board.MadMan007 - Saturday, October 2, 2010 - link
What's up with the dearth of SATA ports from the southbridge? Are there really only 3 (4 if you count back panel eSATA maybe?) available or is this just Biostar cheaping out a bit? It's kind of sad that a 'high-end' board only has 5 internal SATA ports even with an add-on controller. Not that a regular desktop needs more than maybe 3-4 internal ports but enthusiasts in particular might like to do a few RAID arrays or just have lots of ports for a file server. Many many LGA775 boards had 6 internal ports from the southbridge alone plus 2-4 more internal or eSATA ports from additional controllers. So are we moving backwards here or is it just these particular motherboards?Mahomedsmith - Thursday, December 30, 2010 - link
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