UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[Ace-a-Rue]

OVERVIEW:http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...n.php?S_ID=365

SPECIFICATION:http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...t.php?S_ID=365

CPU SUPPORT: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...t.php?S_ID=365

BIOS: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/bios.php?S_ID=365

DRIVER: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/driver.php?S_ID=365

ACCESSORIES: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...s.php?S_ID=365

five below bios images are shown with an E8500 cpu installed (Prime 95 stable for 2 hours)













five below bios images are shown with a QX9650 cpu installed (Prime 95 stable for one hour)

[Ace-a-Rue]

my board will be here on monday...i was hoping today but either newegg or ups misfired from their TN warehouse.

[fireice2]

darn the local channels.. they only have biostar video card.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i can buy it for you and then ship it via USPS EMI...if you cover all the expenses through paypal plus the fee they charge to transfer the money, i will do it for you...first you would have to transfer money to me...PM me if you are interested.

[corso13]

already ordered mine, let see if will arrive next monday

hooping to see some config settings from you guys because its been pass some time that i oc my cpu

best regards

[fireice2]

I'll think about it. My friend is more interested in this baby. hehehe I'll pass him on to you.

[gundamit]

Nice. I enjoyed Ace-a-Rue's posts in the Abit P35 monster thread and I'm looking forward to another great thread for a motherboard that is deserving of all the attention it is getting.

[DJSUB]

i can buy it for you and then ship it via USPS EMI...if you cover all the expenses through paypal plus the fee they charge to transfer the money, i will do it for you...first you would have to transfer money to me...PM me if you are interested.

wow this is a good offer dude

can you please PM me the total cost including the shipping to manila philippines via USPS EMI ?

thank you very much

[DJSUB]

Nice. I enjoyed Ace-a-Rue's posts in the Abit P35 monster thread and I'm looking forward to another great thread for a motherboard that is deserving of all the attention it is getting.

i learned a lot in the abit IP35 moster thread

[DoomSayer]

Cool we needed a decent topic on this.
Its pretty easy to get by in Belgium.
I might by one if things turn out nice here.

[Red Evil]

why not buy the cheaper Biostar TSeries TP45 HP?

[Ace-a-Rue]

four reasons that i see right away:

Your board has NO Raid available and the other highligted items below

Hybrid Space-Pipe

As the Desktop system increase more fans to achieve better Overclocking, Normally, Motherboard’s heat generators are chipsets, PWM and Graphics card.

Combined with Biostar "Cooler Harbor" and "V-Pipe" Thermal solution, deliver the ultimate thermal performance and silently. Overclockers can start to boost your Desktop performance effortlessly with this new revolution!

Cooler Harbor

Effectively Thermal design directs the heat generated by MB chipsets to the heatsink on rear I/O panel, easily exhaust by existing airflow from CPU fan and a fan.

The ideal heat-pipe design on this motherboard is that the original fanless design does not have reliability problems as a chipset fan does.


T-Power2™ is a new powerful MB utility designed by Biostar Engineers for use only on Biostar motherboards and VGA cards. T-Power2™ interact hardware and software management. T-Power2 features Windows-based OC Tweaker™, BIO-WATCH™, eHot-line™ and Biostar Flash™ into a user-friendly interface providing users the perfect environment with which to maximize performance and stability.

Raid is available

differential cost is only $25 more at newegg

[Ace-a-Rue]

wow this is a good offer dude

can you please PM me the total cost including the shipping to manila philippines via USPS EMI ?

thank you very much

PM sent

[philbrown23]

are these boards from biostar anygood? I was thinking about getting the t45 HP

also could you PM me what it would cost for the board + usps priority shipping to 05641 U.S.? for some reason my paypal will not allow me to buy from newegg and tigerdirect does not have this board in stock

[rbuass]

Need help...
After reached 650FSB (dice), motherbord turn instable...
I did stop the tests...
next day the motherboard was dead (Post FF)
Is there are sombody can help me with some new idea...i will aprecite so much...
The condensation was isolated when i did the tests...and i can t understand why this problem occur...
I just put the motherboard in the sun (lol)...and it keeps dead...
Sorry the broken english

[Ace-a-Rue]

hmmm...sounds like either to much vcore or supporting voltages or moisture did short something out...have you tried another CPU?

[Ace-a-Rue]

are these boards from biostar anygood? I was thinking about getting the t45 HP

also could you PM me what it would cost for the board + usps priority shipping to 05641 U.S.? for some reason my paypal will not allow me to buy from newegg and tigerdirect does not have this board in stock

you might want to check with paypal to see why...log on to your online account to check to see if they have a problem with your checking account...i can access PayPal from newegg for payment!

i was only doing this for this one international user...unfortunately, you would still need to use paypal with me so that wouldn't work out if i decided to help you...sorry.

[NormanABates]

looking forward for more reviews on this board.

[Ace-a-Rue]

here is the board, 2-Raptor Velocity drives, EVGA 9800 GTX, Areca 1210 PCIe Raid card.

[Ace-a-Rue]

More Images

[OnDborder]

Anticipating your testing Ace..
Windwithme got some pretty high fsb on one of the Biostars.. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=572320

[philbrown23]

newegg is the only place my pypal will not work, and they said it's because my newegg account it to new?? has this happened to anyone else? well looks like the tp45 hp it is for me

[NormanABates]

@Ace-a-Rue,
thanks for posting pics man.
really hoping to see some action soon.

[Ace-a-Rue]

the board does about 20 Mhz better on the FSB with the same E8500 that was used on the Gigabyte X48T (DDR3) DQ6 board.

what i see with the PCIe 16x slots is a slight limitation...if you do not intend on doing crossfire and just run one video card, that card can run at 16x (PCIE 2.0 specs)...the 2nd PCIE 16x slot will not function with anything plugged into the slot...it is powered but the bios will not recognize it...i have an Areca Raid 8X PCIe raid card that i wanted to operate in the 2nd 16X slot...in order to do that, i had to move the jumpers on the board to enable crossfire which puts both 16X slots into 8X speed....it is not a big thing because the speed is there for a single video card, as long it is a PCIe 2.0 specs card...i have an 9800 GTX card.

i'll run some 3D benches tomorrow or later on this morning to show the differences between the X48 DDR3 board and this board with the same video card used on the X48T.

basically...i could do 500 FSB @ 8x on the GA-X48T DQ6 board (GSkill DDR3-1600 memory) and this board i can do 520 FSB @ 8x using only GSkill DDR2-6400 memory..pretty good!

[Ace-a-Rue]

two quicky benches...the HDTach is done on Raptor Veloci 10K RPM drives...these drives are only 2.5 inches...the latency is a bit higher than their Sata I 10K RPM 150 Gb drives but they are faster in sequential read speed.

the PCMARK 2005 bench was done on these drives which will boost the score because the drives are in a Raid 0, 128K stripe...over a single drive setup, it might mean about 500-700 point differential.

i will show you what the Gigabyte X48T board scored with the same E8500 with a different drives attached to the Areca 8x card...i'll have to pull those drives out of this machine (i have two extra) and attach them to the Biostar Areca card and then run set up again for a comparison...BUT...just from an eyeball point of view, this board and the P45 chipset is darn good for a DDR2 board.