This is a first biostar board i actually find good looking.

wow didnt even realise Biostar still existed thought they went the way of DFI and Abit not liking that look tbh looks too much like an Asus crosshair VIII for AM4 and i hate anything from Asus with a passion

Not many people know but Biostar used to make good motherboards a long time ago. Their Tpower i45 was a monster overclocker and had the world record for the highest front side bus 700Mhz + with a core 2 duo E8600 back in 2013. Sadly their Bios support and customer support has always been the worst of all companies i have had to deal with. Not answering contact emails for rma , ignoring any contact and just plain rude when asnwering IF you could get them to answer back to you. Never again will i use a Biostar product , last one was the Tpower i45. Cannot make the same mistake twice 😛

chispy:

Not many people know but Biostar used to make good motherboards a long time ago. Their Tpower i45 was a monster overclocker and had the world record for the highest front side bus 700Mhz + with a core 2 duo E8600 back in 2013. Sadly their Bios support and customer support has always been the worst of all companies i have had to deal with. Not answering contact emails for rma , ignoring any contact and just plain rude when asnwering IF you could get them to answer back to you. Never again will i use a Biostar product , last one was the Tpower i45. Cannot make the same mistake twice 😛

Yep, I remember Biostar TPower series based on Intel P45, really nice boards for extreme OC, I've had one for year or so and it was great for OC paired with Q6600 G0 and Q9650, although such high FSB was impossible with quads, it was "reserved" for C2Ds. I still have few fully functional AM2+ and LGA775 boads from Biostar, basic models and all of them stil in use for office PCs. Only on one of these Biostar boards, AM2+ board, had to change old blown caps on VRM and that one is (can't believe I remember that) is bought in August 2008. Most of these AM2+ and LGA775 Biostar boards we still have for office use have more than 50.000+ hours behind their back, can't complain. I don't hesitate to buy Biostar boards for office use, can't remember I ever had problems with these. Recently build us few office PCs based around cheap Biostar H410 boards paired with Pentium Gold G6400 and Core i3-10100, M.2 SSDs... not a single problem so far and I'm sure these are going to last at least 5 years, probably even 10, for 10-12 hours per day usage. But as chispy already said their BIOS support is almost non-existent, 2 to 3 BIOSs at max one can expect from Biostar for their cheap boards, not sure about higher priced Biostar boards. About Biostar top of the line AM4, LGA1200 boards... Saw them but haven't got a chance to spend more time with them. Some two years ago had a chance to use few Biostar Racing X470 based boards, two different models iirc and can't say I like them, iirc at stock settings they were pushing way too much voltage into Ryzen 5 3600 and CPU voltage control section inside BIOS was so poor.

My X370 motherboard is a Biostar, but, really only because they were the first to release an AM4 ITX motherboard. It's overall not a great board, though, not the worst I've used.

i dealt so much back in the day with Biostar Motherboards that i would prefer to die instead os buying their crap

reix2x:

i dealt so much back in the day with Biostar Motherboards that i would prefer to die instead os buying their crap

Every single Biostar motherboard I saw dead in person (just a single one was mine) died just because those PCs were build with the worst possible cheap POS chinese no name PSUs: JNC, Frontier, Zito... One can't expect anything inside those PCs to last more than few years with trash PSU literally r@ping every single piece of HW inside those PCs for years + add tons of dust inside those PCs + bad airflow... and it's a disaster waiting to happen. Here on my side all office PCs, doesn't matter if they are build around Biostar mobos or not, are powered by decent 350W-450W PSUs (Antec, Seasonic, Chieftec...) + UPS with AVR on every single one of them and just one Biostar motherboard dropped to its knees after 8, 9 years of usage because of junk caps used for VRM, but no problem for me to change those and that mobo still works perfectly fine paired with 89W Athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPU (CPU probably even pulls around 95W because of light FSB OC from 200MHz to 211MHz). Like I just said main problem with cheap Biostar mobos are junk caps for VRM but.... But back them up with decent PSU, good airflow, keep em dust free so they can be propperly cooled, don't pair power hungry CPU with cheap mobo with weak VRM section.... and they'll last long enough. As I said before few office PCs here on my side using cheap Biostar mobos passed 50.000 hour mark and they're still alive and kickin...

CrazY_Milojko:

Every single Biostar motherboard I saw dead in person (just a single one was mine) died just because those PCs were build with the worst possible cheap POS chinese no name PSUs: JNC, Frontier, Zito... One can't expect anything inside those PCs to last more than few years with trash PSU literally r@ping every single piece of HW inside those PCs for years + add tons of dust inside those PCs + bad airflow... and it's a disaster waiting to happen. Here on my side all office PCs, doesn't matter if they are build around Biostar mobos or not, are powered by decent 350W-450W PSUs (Antec, Seasonic, Chieftec...) + UPS with AVR on every single one of them and just one Biostar motherboard dropped to its knees after 8, 9 years of usage because of junk caps used for VRM, but no problem for me to change those and that mobo still works perfectly fine paired with 89W Athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPU (CPU probably even pulls around 95W because of light FSB OC from 200MHz to 211MHz). Like I just said main problem with cheap Biostar mobos are junk caps for VRM but.... But back them up with decent PSU, good airflow, keep em dust free so they can be propperly cooled, don't pair power hungry CPU with cheap mobo with weak VRM section.... and they'll last long enough. As I said before few office PCs here on my side using cheap Biostar mobos passed 50.000 hour mark and they're still alive and kickin...

i haven thought about it, in general Biostar motherboards were in the cheapest possible pcs i use to work on, to say the true i wont buy any Biostar product, but your point is pretty valid, this days i follow that rule of good brand psu, normally i opt for Seasonic and Corsair power supplies, they have prooven themselves in time

Most people I know building basic PCs are driven by this logic: "...cheap mobo, cheap GPU... why investing in branded PSU, just put some cheap chinese crap PSU inside and done with it, it'll work..." ...and indeed it'll work no problem for a year, two, with a bit of a luck maybe even three, but those folks can't expect that mobo, HDD/SSD... to last for 4, 5 or even more years under the cheap PSU that even new on 1/2 a load has the constant ripple on 12V/5V/3.3V rails like seismograph needle during earthquake. When you connect those cheap no name PSUs (brand new) to oscilloscope with 1/2 to 2/3 power load on 12V rail that ripple on the screen... it's like a horror movie for every dude who's into electronics. Even when building budget office PCs or some basic HTPC I don't hesitate to invest 20, 30, 40€ more for a decent branded PSU just for the peace of mind, if I can stretch the budget even further UPS with AVR also drops into the bucket list for that PC. After 4, 5, 6 years of use usually I pull the PSU and replace it with brand new with similar specs and (after checking caps inside) put the old PSU to power up some 5050 LED 12V strips or whatever, usually there's plenty of healthy Amps left on 12V rail(s) on those old PSUs.

Undying:

This is a first biostar board i actually find good looking.

When i was younger (486, Pentium MMX) Biostar was a synonym for crap.

reminds me of a TUF board.

MonstroMart:

When i was younger (486, Pentium MMX) Biostar was a synonym for crap.

They were around back then?

Falkentyne:

They were around back then?

Yup. They have been around for as long as i can remember and i'm in the middle of my 40ies 😉 According to wiki the company was founded in 1986.