Biostar makes nice little budget motherboard!

[rogue1979]

Biostar G31-M7 TE just arrived from Newbiz $46.80 not including shipping.

Native 1600MHz fsb support as well as Quad core and 45nm cpu's.

It's a very small matx, fit into my Ultra Microfly just fine.

Cpu voltage +5%, 10% and 15%.
All memory timings available as well as 3 memory dividers, but no memory voltage.

Paired it up with a e2180, and it needed the 1066Mhz fsb mod to get the right memory dividers
so the fsb bus could be raised. Seems to run the e2180 at 3.2Ghz @ 1.41v, haven't had time
to run Orthos long term yet. Looks like the pci-e lock is functional.

I have a 2140 laying around somewhere, I will pop it in later and try to see if it will take a 400MHz+ fsb to test the board. Not sure if it will go that fast, but would like to test the board
above the 320MHz it's running now.

With the native 1600MHz fsb support and decent overclocking features it is a heck of a deal,
especially when you factor in how cheap e2xxx's cpu's are!

 

[DaveSimmons]

I have a pair of socket 939 Biostar TForce-6100 mATX boards that have worked well, nice to see they're still making good budget boards.

 

[rogue1979]

I still have one of those socket 939 Geforce6100 boards and it is still rockin'.

Picked it up quite some time ago for $99 with a X2 3600+. It was a smokin'
deal back then, and is still happily running 2.6GHz.

 

[o1die]

I have a pin modded e4300 in my g31 board. You can use copper tape, which is about as thin as aluminum foil. You get a 33% overclock that's stable because the memory timings aren't changed.

 

[nerp]

Just built a low power 780G/AMD 4850e setup with a Biostar TA780G-M2+ and it seems nicely built and has been perfectly stable. It even sleeps/resumes and deals with hibernation with no problem. Everything works great and was a pleasure to work with. I expect it to last for years.

 

[cubeless]

49.99 shipped at the egg...

y do u have to do the 266 mod? 1:1 won't go?

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: cubeless
49.99 shipped at the egg...

y do u have to do the 266 mod? 1:1 won't go?

Without the 1066 mod the memory ratios are all too high when you raise the fsb, no choice to reduce to 800>.

 

[spvc500vn]

I try bsel mod to fsb 333 with e2140 its done. But when I set fsb higher 350 system boot ok but lan onboard is lost . Very seriously bug, I feel that mobo din't lock pci-e clock well

 

[VirtualLarry]

Will this board run an E5200 and overclock to 300Mhz FSB, without doing any sort of pin-mod? Will the ram run 1:1 also?