[First look] Biostar TF560 A2+ (can do at least 355MHz HTT)

[Starscream]

btw Fr3ak were did u buy the board?
cant find it on geizhals.

[Fr3ak]

btw Fr3ak were did u buy the board?
cant find it on geizhals.

Oh I am sorry, I forgot to mention that in this thread. Biostar sent it to me, but I have been told it is a retail board and not cherry picked.

The OC tool that came with the board did not work for me. Seems like I am unlucky when it comes to that tool. It only worked once with my S754 TFORCE board and with all other boards I had it also doesn't work. I have no idea why that is the case. I am using a fresh install of XP SP2. I prefer overclocking from the bios anyway, so I can live with that.

[Jimmer411]

Oh I am sorry, I forgot to mention that in this thread. Biostar sent it to me, but I have been told it is a retail board and not cherry picked.

I hope your right, seeing as I have this board on the way lol.

[VILLAIN_XX]

Well i was in a situation to sell my computer build to a friend and considered buying the Biostar mother board that you guys are posting about.

Before pouncing on it like a beast I called Biostar tech two times and emailed twice as well. All of them said its "compatible AM2+" but its no secret that the new phenoms will be HT 3.0. So i wanted to know if it was possible for an update in bios later in the future.

heres a direct copy paste from my email

Dear Customer,

Thanks for your explain and more technology knowledge on AM2+ CPU. The TF560 A2+ motherboard able compatible with AM2+ CPU, but it does not provide AM2+ Full function due to nVidia chipset limitation. It can help endusers if they want to buy a board with AM2+ CPU platform. General speaking, nVIdia does not a MP product for support Full AM2+ platform.

Thank you very much.



So dissappointed about the HT 3.0 not truly utilized i decided to stay with my 939 mobo till at least a true AM2+ ready motherboard and pci express 2.0 comes out next year...

Ill wait contently for Phenom and Barcelona though. I have a friend that works in Intel, and they are taking AMD's new line up very seriously about the upcoming Barcelona and Phenoms. So that say's alot about AMD's lineup, IMO.

[BeardyMan]

My board works again lol
Latest modded bios on that rebel site.

Funny thing is, it refused to work with 2800+ sempron / 6000+ and my two setts of ddr2, now it works with my sempron 2800+ and dual channel works again

strange board, i have a felling that i will not be able to get the WR with this board.

edit*
must rethink that lol, works flawlesly now.
This is boxed cooled at 1.6V vcore and 2.2V vdimm chipset at 1.300V

[JWilson]

The Admin at Rebels Haven is advising not to flash Beta BIOS N56BAB01.BST that is on the Tiawan site. He's reporting Windows hanging on start up, and BIOS corruption of the next flash. The corruption renders the system dead.