The Biostar TPower I45 SCANDLE.

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Unfortunately, this is something many users feel who have bought and tried the TPower I45 for a multitude of reasons. General feeling is that they (the owners of TPower) overpaid for a budget board, and simply have not enjoyed their time with the TPower I45. Heres a quote from myself neo mike asked me about the TPower I45, it goes into a little more detail.

Its a good board, but the Biostar has problems which I'm rounding the troops up for to try and do something about.

Good stuff

- Stonkingly good OCer, easily capable of some WRs.

Bad stuff

- All voltage granularity options are piss-poor (CPU, memory, chipset, etc)
- PSB800 is bugged, board will not POST with this setting (oddly, when using a 800 CPU such as a E4400 and the setting is left on auto, it works fine)
- Memory compatibility sucks
- Very few fan headers on the board (3, and that includes the CPU fan header!)
- Many reports of crap memory OCs on sticks other boards take into space

Thats just what I can think of off the top of my head. General feeling from a lot of users is that they overpaid for a budget board. To really add insult to injury Biostar have not released any updated BIOS for the board, despite the fact they made A LOT of money with the TPower. I know of some people who tried asking Biostar about updated BIOS code and listed various issues. Biostars responce was basically "Don't like it? We don't care.".

This thread is to bring awareness about all of the above mentioned issues, Biostars apparently very questionable customer and product support ethics, any BIOS problems I may have missed, and to generally try and help out TPower owners left high and dry by Biostar.

Just in case some representative from Biostar should haplessly wonder into this thread, let it be known now, neither I nor any of the other users here on XS are idiots. We are all extremely competent OCers and will not accept any rediculous excuses.

Now, with that said and done, by all means guys start posting your problems with the board, fixes you may of found, links to other forums threads, and of course don't be shy to add the link for this thread to your sig on any forums you visit and \ or add the link for the petition I have just started HERE. I will also email this to Biostar, just to give them a lil kick up the bum so their aware of things.


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ED - Link for petition is now working.