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At the start of 2021, Intel has unveiled its latest desktop platform, designed primarily for its Rocket Lake 11th generation processors. Intel is officially moving to PCIe 4.0, with the top SKU Core i9-11900K supposedly offering a large jump in IPC performance compared to the previous generation. The new chipset moves to double bandwidth to the CPU, allowing for more hardware to make the most of the chipset at once. It also moves to DDR4-3200 support, a new peak in a product line that was previously on DDR4-2933. The new Z590 chipset is Intel's flagship, designed for Rocket Lake, but offering backward compatibility with Comet Lake processors. We take a closer look at the large variety of new motherboards set to come to market.
BIOSTAR Updates a Popular Motherboard: The X470GTN
Would it surprise you that our most popular AM4 motherboard review to date was Biostar’s mini-ITX offering, the X370GTN? At the time it was launched, it was the only...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/18/2018
Mining Can Be Fashionable? Biostar Wants to Sell Millenials its New iMiner Systems
Biostar has this week released new iMiner systems specifically designed for crypto coin mining. The systems are stuffed with AMD RX 500-series video cards in a "space black" server-like...
36 by Joe Shields on 5/17/2018
The Biostar X370GTN Mini-ITX Motherboard Review: AM4 Goes Tiny
Today take a look at the Biostar X370GTN Mini ITX motherboard which is the first Mini ITX motherboard to have been released on the AM4 socket for AMD's Ryzen...
32 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/23/2017
Analyzing Z370 for Intel's 8th Generation Coffee Lake: A Quick Look at 50+ Motherboards
The launch of Intel’s new 8th Generation ‘Coffee Lake’ processors for desktops is going to be an interesting one. On one side it redefines Intel’s main product stack and...
84 by Ian Cutress, Anton Shilov, Joe Shields & Gavin Bonshor on 10/20/2017
Biostar Announces Z370GT7 and Z370GT6 Motherboards for Coffee Lake CPUs
Not willing to be left behind at the starting line, Biostar has announced its entries into the rapidly growing Z370 motherboard market. At the time of publication, Biostar is...
20 by Joe Shields on 10/18/2017
Mining Cards Update: Zotac, Manli and Biostar Products Formally Confirmed
Although ASUS and Sapphire cryptocurrency mining cards were officially outed last week, other pieces of evidence have suggested other vendors were also producing cryptomining cards. Both the GPU manufacturers...
11 by Nate Oh on 7/6/2017
Biostar Goes Mining: New TB250-BTC PRO Motherboard and RX 470D Mining GPU
With cryptocurrency mining specific motherboards and even graphics cards becoming the new normal for certain manufacturers in their offerings, Biostar has thrown two new products into the ring: the...
22 by Nate Oh on 7/5/2017
BIOSTAR Reveals Two AMD AM4 Crypto Mining Motherboards
Although largely overshadowed by more efficient ASIC rigs, there are still people using GPUs to accumulate digital currencies and/or create cheap OpenCL based systems. It is with those users...
26 by Patrick MacMillan on 5/10/2017
Motherboards with DDR3L and DDR4: Biostar
With Intel’s latest extreme platform, Haswell-E and X99, supporting DDR4, all fingers have been pointing towards the state of DDR4 support for the 100-series motherboards and Intel’s 6th generation...
33 by Ian Cutress on 7/2/2015
The AM1 Kabini Motherboard Preview: Analyzing the Hardware
One of AMD’s primary feature points for the AM1 Kabini platform was the introduction of low-cost motherboards. The promotional material provided gave a suggested AM1 combined price of $60...
64 by Ian Cutress on 4/19/2014
10W Bay Trail-D Coming To Market from GIGABYTE and Biostar
News on the grapevine is filtering down for Bay Trail-D. We have had the 20W Avoton server equivalent processor in our offices for a little while now, but...
55 by Ian Cutress on 2/4/2014
Haswell Z87 Motherboard Preview: 50+ Motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, MSI, ECS, Biostar and EVGA
With time quickly approaching the launch of Haswell, leaks on both motherboards and CPU performance are coming out of the woodworks. Similar to our advance Ivy Bridge coverage...
71 by Ian Cutress on 5/22/2013
Biostar TZ77XE4 Review: Dichotomy by Default
Biostar have always been on the radar for motherboard builders, occupying that niche of ‘bang-for-buck’ if your wallet is looking a little empty this month. In the grand...
28 by Ian Cutress on 7/21/2012
Intel Z77 Panther Point Chipset and Motherboard Preview – ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, ECS and Biostar
Well, today is a day that everyone was expecting, but perhaps not the most exciting day of the month. Today, Intel officially releases the spate of 7-series chipsets for...
145 by Ian Cutress on 4/8/2012
990FX Motherboard Roundup with Thuban and Bulldozer – A Second Wind for ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and Biostar
Ever since the launch of the Bulldozer range and 9-series motherboards, the initial reviews of the processors were not encouraging to say the least. Since then, AMD has...
57 by Ian Cutress on 4/5/2012
File Server Builder's Guide
The proliferation of mobile devices, multi-computer homes, broadband internet access, inexpensive mass storage, and the replacement of many other home electronics by the PC (such as media devices like...
152 by Zach Throckmorton on 9/4/2011
A Quick Glimpse of the Biostar TP67XE and TH67XE
With Intel’s new socket 1155 and Sandy Bridge archtecture nearly upon us, it was only a matter of time before motherboard vendors started to release promotional shots of their...
27 by Ian Cutress on 9/29/2010
Biostar announce the TA890FXE and ‘BIOKING’
Okay, I lied a little. Biostar announce their new tech as ‘BIO-unlocKING’, a feature on their latest 8xx series motherboard to unlock the quad core Thuban based processors...
11 by Ian Cutress on 5/3/2010
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