OC King of Multi-media integrated motherboard - BIOSTAR TF7050-M2 First Look

[windwithme]

[windwithme]

BIOS

[jas420221]

Its pretty!!!

Any benches on this to confirm the thread title's claim?

[TEDY]

how much will does/it cost ?

[windwithme]

Test plasform setup
CPU:AMD AM2 Athlon64 X2 3600+
MB: BIOSTAR TF7050-M2
DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF
VGA:GeForce 7050SE
HD:Seagate 7200.10 320GB
POWER:Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:TT Big Typhoon VX



VGA Share 256MB




3DMARK2001SE


3DMARK2003


3DMARK2005


3DMARK2006


355Mhz
PI 32M


326Mhz DDRII 1033 CL5 5-5-15 2T 2.25V

[Fr3ak]

Looks very good

Very nice pictures!

Did you test the max FSB of the board with a lower multiplier?

My TFORCE S754 hit 400FSB with stock NB volts
Those matx boards are great!

[Lightman]

Fantastic board!!
Simply little is beauty! (in this case of course )

Another great review windwithme

[Starscream]

grt review.

how does the heatsink feel? does it get hot?

and i dont know for shure but can that first PCI-e 1x slot actualy be used? as it looks asif the heatsink is in the way.

[Kasparz]

and i dont know for shure but can that first PCI-e 1x slot actualy be used? as it looks asif the heatsink is in the way.

Most PCI-E 1x cards is not that long.

[windwithme]

Looks very good

Very nice pictures!

Did you test the max FSB of the board with a lower multiplier?

My TFORCE S754 hit 400FSB with stock NB volts
Those matx boards are great!

Sorry

I dont test the max FSB of the board with a lower multiplier ...
but 355mhz with PI 32M is very excellent

[taurus_sel]

Doesn't look like this is the OC king at all from the screenshots. Why is the HT link always at 1G and not more? What's the max HT link speed it can do? Also 355 HT ref is nothing to write home about. 690G runs better than this.

[funnyperson1]

Doesn't look like this is the OC king at all from the screenshots. Why is the HT link always at 1G and not more? What's the max HT link speed it can do? Also 355 HT ref is nothing to write home about. 690G runs better than this.

Which 690G board, I haven't seen any reviews of one past 300 with a full multi. I know the Saphire one did 350 HT with 5X multiplier, but that doesn't mean much imho because the memory isn't being pushed at all.

[flips]

I don't like the Board Layout, the TA690G seems much better... :/

better placed ATX/FD connector and PCI(e) slots are better placed to and it has got a DVI port

[Okda]

why need a vga on this mobo while it already has a built-in one and HDCP output

[funnyperson1]

Very nice, looks like Biostar has another mATX winner on its hands.

[BadNizze]

Locks like a nice board, makes my wanna bulid a HTPC! Good review as allways windwithme!

[TiTON]

Hey folks.. got a quick question. I got this board, and it is actually a nice little package. Got it to 325FSB w/ out a problem. I am having a little bit of the an issue with OC'ing, not really an issue, but more of an annoyance.

I have been OC'ing via BIOS and it has been going fine, but getting tired of having to reboot everytime.

Clockgen and Systool doesn't appear to work with this board. What program are people using to OC this board in Windows?

Any info or suggestions woudl greatly be appreciated.

SAD

[derektm]

Hey folks.. got a quick question. I got this board, and it is actually a nice little package. Got it to 325FSB w/ out a problem. I am having a little bit of the an issue with OC'ing, not really an issue, but more of an annoyance.

I have been OC'ing via BIOS and it has been going fine, but getting tired of having to reboot everytime.

Clockgen and Systool doesn't appear to work with this board. What program are people using to OC this board in Windows?

Any info or suggestions woudl greatly be appreciated.

SAD

I believe it comes with a utility from Biostar that can overclock from windows.

[TiTON]

I believe it comes with a utility from Biostar that can overclock from windows.

Derektm,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have seen people using the t-utility for OC'ing, but it didn't come up as an option when i threw in the Biostar CD into the drive. The autoplay menu only showed HW monitoring and Bios Live.

So I actually explored the CD, and found the T-Uility for Overclocking and installed it. It installed just fine, and the program does launch. But it does not adjust the FSB, and the mem speed was wrong.

The only thing that the utility allowed me to do was adjust the multi in windows, and that was it. So I just guess it is a limitation of the chipset. What a PITA.

If anyone found a window overclocking utility for this board, please share it with us.

Thanks again.

SAD

[elec999]

Just wondering does this board have optical out.
Thanks

[TiTON]

Just wondering does this board have optical out.
Thanks

Look at the first few pics posted in this thread. There is no optical out on the back of the computer. But there is HDMI.

Hope that helps.

SAD

[Daved+]

If it only had DVI and SVideo TV-out...

[derektm]

If it only had DVI and SVideo TV-out...

It supports DVI out of the box with an HDMI to DVI adapter. It also supports SVideo with an adapter from nVidia.



That came with my 8800GTS. Did you look at the back of the board at all?

Just wondering does this board have optical out.
Thanks

It does have SPDIF headers on the board and I believe you can do optical out with a pci bracket.

[elec999]

If it only had DVI and SVideo TV-out...

It has both. There is a dvi to hdmi.
Thanks

[TiTON]

Just looked in the bag of goodies that came w/ the biostar. It did come w/ a HDMI to DVI convertor, and the sVID is built on board. There was no Optical Out PCI bracket in the package. SOrry about that.. I didn't look closely at the back, i am still running some test with it on my workbench, and only using the VGA out.

SAD