Just how really bad is Biostar?

simon22 · 30 Dec 2010 at 21:44

Well I just have ordered my components to build a gaming pc and for the time being I have been looking at all of them, I have bought the Biostar TA890FXE AMD 890FX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard along with XFX ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GFX and AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz CPU.

Many people and my friend has said I should have got the Gigabyte or an Asus, but is it really that bad? It is apparently good to overclock and you can have an crossfire.

Share your views please!

aaron333 · 30 Dec 2010 at 21:45

They're alright now, they've improved in quality compared to the stuff they used to produce.

d_brennen · 30 Dec 2010 at 21:47

Biostar is fine, many of my machines at work are running Biostar P45 chipsets. A few of them are 24/7 jobs.

Only ever had 1 fail on me, that was a second hand one, which was about three years old. And I did torture that board

pastymuncher · 31 Dec 2010 at 13:42

Biostar are fine. I have used a few in builds over the past couple of years and they have been faultless. There are far worse boards available.

vandiesel · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:16

They make great boards, sure they have low budget boards, but they also offer budget overclocking for the bang for buck user, ever since the 939 TForce 6100 they have been making great oc boards. Since the TPower I45 they became a bit more mainstream. I have had most of their boards since the tf 550, TF560/TF8200/790GX2 and the boards used in friends/families builds have been faultless. Availability in the UK can be erratic with not many of the big etailers stocking them. This time around I did not fancy TA890FXE, there were some reports that it favored the unlocked 1090t. For us fellow Biostar fans, there is a home at the rebels haven forum, with some outstanding work done by the site owner polygon

cheers

ellisbodds · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:55

From what I've heard, they're fine. They don't make the best boards but, like others have said, their quality has improved over the past couple of years.

Justintime · 31 Dec 2010 at 16:27

Have been using Biostar on and off since Socket 7 days in no frill builds with no fuss.

mnc fear · 1 Jan 2011 at 04:36

Back in the day they were awful

hopefully they have improved quite a bit

lollyhayes · 1 Jan 2011 at 11:20

d_brennen said:
Biostar is fine, many of my machines at work are running Biostar P45 chipsets. A few of them are 24/7 jobs.

Only ever had 1 fail on me, that was a second hand one, which was about three years old. And I did torture that board

+1
I had an old Biostar p45 board... They are fine, good value and missing only a few of the "premium" features you would see on an asus or gigabyte board.