X370 Boards

[Justinbaileyman]

I am curious, why?

BioStar is crap, always has been and always will be. Its the same thing for Ecs motherboards.They have a high failure rate and a high doa status and then when you try to RMA there products there customer service is like nonexistent.I cant count how many motherboards we would get from those companies with such problems.I learned pretty quick to stay far away from those two brands.

 

[Puffnstuff]

BioStar is crap, always has been and always will be. Its the same thing for Ecs motherboards.They have a high failure rate and a high doa status and then when you try to RMA there products there customer service is like nonexistent.I cant count how many motherboards we would get from those companies with such problems.I learned pretty quick to stay far away from those two brands.

I feel the same way about Foxconn and MSI.

 

[unseenmorbidity]

BioStar is crap, always has been and always will be. Its the same thing for Ecs motherboards.They have a high failure rate and a high doa status and then when you try to RMA there products there customer service is like nonexistent.I cant count how many motherboards we would get from those companies with such problems.I learned pretty quick to stay far away from those two brands.

When I was a kid, I used to work in a computer repair shop. The owner was a real cheapskate, and basically only bought biostar boards, because he got those things for dirt cheap. We replaced a ton of those cheap things!

Which is fine imo. Cheap product for a cheap price. The thing that perplexes me is that these AM4 biostar boards aren't even cheap. They are basically asking the same price as everyone else for a cheaper product.


EDIT:

BIOSTAR B350GT5 vs BIOSTAR X370GT5
1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Header vs 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Header
4 x SATA3 6Gb/s Connector vs 6 x SATA3 6Gb/s Connector

They are virtually identical.

Like I said before, a B350 board with an x370 chipset slapped on.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

I feel the same way about Foxconn and MSI.

Good lord I know it, Foxconn is horrendous!! Talk about bottom of the barrel motherboards jeez.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Good lord I know it, Foxconn is horrendous!! Talk about bottom of the barrel motherboards jeez.

I forgot about EVGA when I said that and their z87/z97 ftw boards were just plain horrible for me. I almost always prefer Asus and Gigabyte, however for AM4 I think that Gigabyte and Asrock are the best products right now.

 

[bigboxes]

Good lord I know it, Foxconn is horrendous!! Talk about bottom of the barrel motherboards jeez.

I've got a FM1 Foxconn mobo and it is a crappy mobo. Bought it when I rebuilt my file server. It was one of the few motherboards at the time that was full size with PCI slots. Didn't want to have to buy all new controller cards. I leave that thing on 24/7. I'm afraid to reboot it! LOL

 

[Justinbaileyman]

I've got a FM1 Foxconn mobo and it is a crappy mobo. Bought it when I rebuilt my file server. It was one of the few motherboards at the time that was full size with PCI slots. Didn't want to have to buy all new controller cards. I leave that thing on 24/7. I'm afraid to reboot it! LOL

Well your lucky as heck seeing how you are one of the very few who actually got a working FM1 Foxconn board.

 

[bigboxes]

Well your lucky as heck seeing how you are one of the very few who actually got a working FM1 Foxconn board.

I thought I had bricked it doing an install via USB. That sucker wouldn't boot for three months. One day it suddenly booted up. I'm going to build a new home server eventually, but it's still a flaky POS. I've had so much trouble with that board from Day 1. It's only saving grace was that it was cheap and had all those PCI expansion slots.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

I forgot about EVGA when I said that and their z87/z97 ftw boards were just plain horrible for me. I almost always prefer Asus and Gigabyte, however for AM4 I think that Gigabyte and Asrock are the best products right now.

I really really wanted that Asrock taichi mobo or the Gigabyte gaming 5 but they are always sold out so I had to settle on the Asus Crosshair hero VI.I do love all the USB ports on this board. Anyone else think the Asus Hero VI looks like a Transformer? Not quite a Autobot and not quite a Decepticon maybe its a Dinobot LOL?

 

[Puffnstuff]

I really really wanted that Asrock taichi mobo or the Gigabyte gaming 5 but they are always sold out so I had to settle on the Asus Crosshair hero VI.I do love all the USB ports on this board. Anyone else think the Asus Hero VI looks like a Transformer? Not quite a Autobot and not quite a Decepticon maybe its a Dinobot LOL?

I really dig the Gigabyte gaming k7 but nobody has it anywhere either. I'm hoping that by this fall things will have settled down providing me with the maximum amount of choices to build from. If AMD and its partners are able to work through their teething issues I will seriously consider a Ryzen build which would be my first AMD system for personal use since my Opteron 170.

As for the styling on the higher end boards they do offer a unique styling that I can't recall see being offered before. The rgb light shows they now offer are pretty neat if you're into that sort of thing. I'm not sure where I'm going for my next build but whatever it is I will almost certainly lean towards a board with dual bios options like Gigabyte.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Yeah, I actually do like the RGB LED light show that todays motherboards are now including.Oh and by the time fall rolls around there will be a huge plethora of motherboards to select from,unlike todays shortages and not to mention the r5 and r3 series will be released and all the kinks should have been worked out by then.

 

[alexruiz]

It seems like a really cheap barebone board that simply had a x370 chipset tossed on as an afterthought, because they thought it would make it sell at a higher price. I highly suspect that this board will be a terrible overclocker because of it.

The CMOS battery is right beside the top Gpu slot, which can be a pain.
The mosfets on the top of the board don't have a heatsink.
There are 7 phases, but how many are actually going to the CPU? How good are they?
Multiple GPUs uses x16/x4 instead of x8/x8
Realtek ALC892 v/s Realtek ALC1220 that is on all the other x370 boards (aside from the Asrock Killer Sli/ac, but that has a wifi card and it's cheaper)
No shroud around the on board sound.
No wifi and no m.2 slot to put wifi
Bios is absolutely terrible according to comments.

Review from yesterday,


A previous review said the bios was practically barren. I assume they have done some bios updates since.


If this board was like $110, then sure, I could see there maybe being a market for it. But at it's current price point, not a chance. It's not worth $150! Asrock has better boards for less.

Fair enough. Reasonable arguments. The official info agrees with your comment.

I am still, however, thinking that this will be a sleeper board.
I have built a lot of AM3+ systems with pretty much all the 970 chipset boards, and the TA970, while spartan, it is still one of the top performers.
At this point it is expensive for an entry x370 board.
But down the road will use it. I'll report back

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

BioStar is crap, always has been and always will be. Its the same thing for Ecs motherboards.They have a high failure rate and a high doa status and then when you try to RMA there products there customer service is like nonexistent.I cant count how many motherboards we would get from those companies with such problems.I learned pretty quick to stay far away from those two brands.

*shrug* I used a ton of Biostar mobos for my older Phenom II builds and they've fine.
I'm typing this on a Biostar TZ77XE4 w/3770K @ 4.5GHz, been running 24/7/365 for the past 3 years.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

*shrug* I used a ton of Biostar mobos for my older Phenom II builds and they've fine.
I'm typing this on a Biostar TZ77XE4 w/3770K @ 4.5GHz, been running 24/7/365 for the past 3 years.

Yeah..... if you say so... You must be the rare exception then. I for one will stay far away from anything biostar!!

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Yeah..... if you say so... You must be the rare exception then. I for one will stay far away from anything biostar!!

Could be. I've also had Intel SSDs die on me, whereas OCZs are fine

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Could be. I've also had Intel SSDs die on me, whereas OCZs are fine

Oh me too!! I cant even count how many times I had Intel SSD's die on me.

 

[Malogeek]

My ASUS X370-Pro fails to detect my OCZ RD400 on every restart. I have to power down the system and on again to startup windows.

 

[DuronBurgerMan]

Could be. I've also had Intel SSDs die on me, whereas OCZs are fine

I had *two* OCZ SSDs die on me. Never again. Also had a Biostar board a few generations ago... utter crap. One of the worst boards I've ever owned. I'd rather step down to a B350 than buy that Biostar garbage.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Don't mean to complain here, but where are those 81 or 91 motherboards Lisa Su promised would be all ready and released for the Ryzen launch?? I count "12" X370 motherboards and "10" b350 motherboards.That's a far stretch from 81 or 91 motherboards being available.Or have they all been pushed back till summer?

 

[Topweasel]

Don't mean to complain here, but where are those 81 or 91 motherboards Lisa Su promised would be all ready and released for the Ryzen launch?? I count "12" X370 motherboards and "10" b350 motherboards.That's a far stretch from 81 or 91 motherboards being available.Or have they all been pushed back till summer?

There was something lost in translation. It wasn't 81+ unique motherboards available at launch. It was 81+ total motherboards available at launch.

 

[Malogeek]

There was something lost in translation. It wasn't 81+ unique motherboards available at launch. It was 81+ total motherboards available at launch.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

There was something lost in translation. It wasn't 81+ unique motherboards available at launch. It was 81+ total motherboards available at launch.

Ohhhhh Burn!! HAHAHAHAHA LOL

 

[EXCellR8]

No way there was that many...

 

[Puffnstuff]

It was 81+ total motherboards available at launch.

Yeah 81 on the airplane that brought them in country.

 

[EXCellR8]

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