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Biostar Motherboards....Bad?

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My very own $80 Biostar P67 mobo with a OC 2500K and a <$50 H61 Biostar mobo a friend with non solid caps and 2500 non-K both just passed their 3-year warranty mark with flying colors as gaming rigs.

Questionable quality my ass. Who looks like the fool now, the one who "cheaps out" on a $50 mobo or the idiots I see running around with mobos costing at least 6x as much and not even using SLI/XF? An equivalent of a new GTX 760 of money well spent indeed.
 
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I think Biostar is fine for your average user. The reason enthusiasts didn't like it quite so much was that their BIOS didn't have as many of the features/options as a an enthusiast board and setting were tuned more conservatively by default.
 
crashtech said:
I don't know if you can make that assessment, after all you purchased Biostar's top of the line board, which can't help evaluate their budget offerings.
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Biostar's budget boards use better components than AsRock's mid-tier boards;at least in the inductor/main capacitor area.
This is not my 1st rodeo.
At the moment I own...5 Biostar boards.
0 MSI
3 Gigabyte
4 Asus
 
schmuckley said:
Biostar's budget boards use better components than AsRock's mid-tier boards;at least in the inductor/main capacitor area.
This is not my 1st rodeo.
At the moment I own...5 Biostar boards.
0 MSI
3 Gigabyte
4 Asus
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In addition to the better component choices, Biostar motherboards are also more solid while ASRock has thin flexible boards to save more money.
 
Have always liked Biostar mobos. Have a bunch of TA870+s, TA880GB+s and TZ77XE4s, all running 24/7 for the past few years without problems.
 
nothing spectacular about biostar mobos... i've ran a few in the past in simple machines and they always performed just fine
 
schmuckley said:
I would rank Biostar above AsRock in quality.

I have the umm..z97 one..
..and it's better than AsRock Extreme4..
I can't say about AsRock's higher-tiered offerings.(Ex6-9-11,OCF)
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If you don't even know what board you bought... how can you say its better than the extreme4?
 
Wall Street said:
In addition to the better component choices, Biostar motherboards are also more solid while ASRock has thin flexible boards to save more money.
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Even their cheapest boards uses Nichicon or Chemicon caps and Japanese power controllers for CPU power circuitry; don't even need to talk about the higher end models. It's just hilarious how the detractors here have no arguments other than weak-as-hell "it's cheap therefore it must suck".
 
Dear Carson Dyle, I am happy that you do not NEED to change your BioStar H61MGV3 BIOS boot screen:whiste:
Let BioStar tell you to jump in the lake (which is empty).
They did that to me.
 
Maximilian said:
If you don't even know what board you bought... how can you say its better than the extreme4?
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Because it overclocks better,and supplies enough voltage for my RAM to run 2800Mhz.
Also:BIOS is nice,booting is very fast.
There is only 1 Biostar z97 board 😛
 
Got A Biostar TZ77A board from Microcenter years ago for a build for my cousin. Got the board and a 2500K in a bundle. ended up paying $60.00 for it. Great stable board. Clocked the 2500K up to 4 GHZ with just a multiplier, voltage and LLC bump on the first try and it has been running rock stable ever since. Would definitly buy Biostar again.
 
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