Biostar affordable X38 mobo features external cooling

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In its continuing effort to get the people's attention, Biostar is preparing an Intel X38-powered motherboard that is hoped to impress on several levels. The TX38-A7 Deluxe, as it was named is a soon-to-be-released board that will show off Biostar's new vision, one that tries to perfectly combine features and overclock potential with decent prices.

When looking at the specs, the TX38-A7 Deluxe is nothing special, an X38 motherboard with 3 PCI-Express slots, two x16, one x4, two Gigabit controllers, six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors, one PATA port, two eSATA connectors and 7.1 channel audio. What's special about it lies in the cooling solution which surrounds the CPU socket with heatpipes and takes the concept even further by having one heatpipe with cooling fins at its end extent out of the case area. The solution used by Biostar is supposed to offer a more extreme cooling method and one that is more direct and efficient.

The TX38-A7 Deluxe board is said to be ready for a release later this month at a price tag that will turn heads and make Tier One manufacturers jealous.

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Link,TC Magazine.

rip off from dfi's p35 cooling solution....

looks like 4xPCIe slots to me lol

maybe the guy should have actually looked at the images he borrowed off TT :D

its got a tv antenna!!! :rofl: :ROTF: :rofl:

looks a tad funny but who cares if it works?

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Originally Posted by EvlUndrWareNome

its got a tv antenna!!! :rofl: :ROTF: :rofl:

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:rofl:

crap!

Is that a Hyundai logo on the NB??!?

The Phase/DI/LN2 guys wont liek all that crap around the socket

Talk about fugly.

It looks ridiculous! They could have spent the money on a smart placed 60mm fan. That would actually bring some cooling.

It would be a pain to mount it in a case - you have to put that 'TV antenna' through IO plate hole..

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Originally Posted by xoqolatl

It would be a pain to mount it in a case - you have to put that 'TV antenna' through IO plate hole..

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Indeed not cool for water cooling users that don't wnat to take out everything to remove the mobo. That would be a make me take out EVERYTHING to get the motherboard out of my case. I don't think so.

Besides how much of a practical use is that little piece outside the case when theres limited air flow back there unless its hopping that the user has a fan mounted in front of it.

f*ck Heatpipes, gimme watercooled boards for a reasonable price!

Overclocker boards should come without cooling of any kind but instead use sandard mounts for Water/DI/Custom blocks etc. Let us pick the cooling we want without any crap needing to be ripped off.

woah :lol:

If its cheap and performs/clocks well, who cares what it looks like....:rolleyes:

if it performs and is stable it might be my next board.
il just cut that antenna of dont have a tv anyway.

The world's first motherboard which actually beams home to HQ every night.

Wow.. they took heatpipe lolcoasters to a whole new level. My only hope is that this board retails for $200 or less being that it's a Biostar. If the NB isn't a crap-bin chip and it retails for cheap I can just remove all the crap and bring back "budget" overclocking. No $300 boards for me!

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Originally Posted by FischOderAal

f*ck Heatpipes

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+1 I'm getting royally fed up with these heatpipe solutions... they simply do not work in an inverted case like mine.... :mad:

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Originally Posted by EvlUndrWareNome

its got a tv antenna!!! :rofl: :ROTF: :rofl:

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are they getting the game on that thing or what?? ;)

edit: +2 on the ditch heatpipes intiative.. just give me a normal copper sink with a fan. oy!

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Originally Posted by NightCrawler™

+1 I'm getting royally fed up with these heatpipe solutions... they simply do not work in an inverted case like mine.... :mad:

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Wasn't that proved incorrect awhile back?

I had an Asus Premium prior my DFI SLi DR and it got smoking hot..

you know that feeling you get when you see a car that looks daft, and you think someone actually got paid for designing that. what planet are they on, well thats exactly what this board makes me think. wtf is going through their minds at biostar. i mean it doesnt look cool or good. it looks :banana::banana::banana::banana:....lol

heatpipes everywhre.... :mad: :slapass: :horse:

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Originally Posted by Morais

heatpipes everywhre.... :mad: :slapass: :horse:

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hey. atleast it got an external handle to carry it to the waste bin...:p:

That antenna thingy looks friggin ridiculous lol.

AT least heatsinks are not copper colored aluminium.

PS. It MUST be detachable - it would ot fit into standard sized box, and I doubt the would give bigger box just for the antenna to fit.

hm, judging from the transfer of mobo manufacturers to heatpipe-coasters (MSI FTW! :D ), i wonder what is the next step behind these EXT antennas,

btw, can we discuss something else than the cooling solution? :)

+all solid caps, pwr,rst buttons, ide port, twisted sata ports, hopefully the retail price ...

At last Biostar moved the ATX24 connector to the side, but now they have
that idiot cooling instead.. well, at least it's a step better than the connector...

If it will be as cheap as they make it seem, and clocks well, I might think of this.

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Originally Posted by DeathReborn

Overclocker boards should come without cooling of any kind but instead use sandard mounts for Water/DI/Custom blocks etc. Let us pick the cooling we want without any crap needing to be ripped off.

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fo real man, if they made the option to choose our board with or without heat pipes/sinks it would save so much $$$ cause as soon as i get a board the first thing comes to mind is water.

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Originally Posted by NightCrawler™

+1 I'm getting royally fed up with these heatpipe solutions... they simply do not work in an inverted case like mine.... :mad:

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makes two of us once more ;) Lian Li V600B :)

didn't hear that much of Biostar Mobos up to now, they're more OEM, aren't they?

would be interesting if a manufacturer would sell his Mobo without any heatsinks installed xD what do you think, how many DAUs would try to run it without any cooler?