Biostar GAMING Z97X and Z97W Motherboards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/06/2015 09:58 AM | source: | 8 comment(s)

Wow, amazing how many component manufacturers out there steal the naming from MSI, Anyway BioStar announced its latest flagship socket LGA1150 motherboard, the GAMING Z97X. A nice looking board series though.

The board design is brown/gold+black color scheme and comes with a black plastic shroud.

Expansion slots wise you will get three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (x16/NC/NC or x8/x8/NC or x8/x4/x4); and three PCI-Express 2.0 x1. Storage is based on six SATA 6 Gb/s, and one M.2 slot. The board is SATA Express compatible, but that connector seems to be doomed even before it peaked. The board is based on a 12-phase VRM power design. Nice to see are USB 3.1 ports these run 10 Gb/s, it has six regular USB 3.0 ports

You get two NICs, one Intel and one Killer E2200. BioStar includes a 5.25-inch "Gaming Commander," which gives you front-panel audio outputs with a volume control, amplifier control, diagnostic LEDs, and a CPU temperature indicator. A bit gimmicky but well ..

On-board you will find a diagnostic LED, power on/reset and OC buttons. The GAMING Z97W seems to be the more budget friendly version, is lacks a third PCIe x16 slot, has a 10-phase CPU VRM and has minor other changes.

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vajoiner
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#5008881 Posted on: 02/06/2015 08:06 PM

i should get a job on biostars design team. they look like they need some help. i promise i wouldnt give them a tramp stamp / eye of the tiger logo! im off to learn mandarin

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#5008908 Posted on: 02/06/2015 08:49 PM

While I like the black PCB of the board however the rest of the color design needs work.

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#5008910 Posted on: 02/06/2015 08:51 PM

Biostar always had some issues with design. Also whenever I hear "Biostar" I hear "low quality VRM's."

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#5008927 Posted on: 02/06/2015 09:24 PM

Too many gaming lol..

MSI gaming
Gigabyte gaming
Biostar gaming
ASUS gamer...

lol

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#5008932 Posted on: 02/06/2015 09:34 PM

How on earth do you fit any PCIE card into this board with that plastic shield thing in the way!?

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