Wednesday, March 3rd 2010
Biostar Readies TA890FXE Motherboard
Biostar is readying a mid-range motherboard in its T-Series lineup based on AMD's upcoming 890FX + SB850 chipset. The T-Series TA890FXE was pictured at the ongoing CeBIT event without its cooling assembly. It supports existing and upcoming socket AM3 processors, including Phenom II X6. The CPU is powered by a 5+1 phase VRM, supporting 140W processors. The 890FX chipset gives out four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots supporting ATI CrossFireX technology, apart from two legacy PCI slots. The SB850 southbridge gives out six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, of which five are internal, probably one external. An additional storage controller by VIA drives the lone IDE connector. 7.1 channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, and FireWire make for the rest of it. The TA890FXE is expected to be out later in April, when AMD unveils its latest processors.
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21 Comments on Biostar Readies TA890FXE Motherboard
No USB3?
And looks like I've got to but a PSU with a 8pin EPS connector...
Doesn't look good for the X6 chips if all these mobo's have 140watt capacity...
eh? thats a standard 8 pin CPU AUX connector, been around for many many years.
140W capacity doesnt mean its just for the x6 chips, could be for OC'ers as well. there are older chips (phenom I/II) that also use over 100W at stock, so it could be for backward compatibility as well.
Also even the latest version of the 965 ( which runs at a much lower wattage) uses 125w.
What i was saying (and you filled the blanks) is that the previous high of 125W moving to 140W, is hardly a bad thing - 15W for 50% more cores? awesome!
I blame lack of sleep, woke up at 3am and decided to MAKE my rig work again.
With Hyper-threading on many people have had even tripple radiator loops heatsoak with their i7s around 4ghz.
No AMD chip could heat-soak a triple rad set up.
A motherboard with no mosfet cooling?
If yes you were, then my second sentence makes it clear I think why the motherboards may of been breaking ;)
What I dont like is the PCI X slots so close together.. Its a bummer as I was hoping to go back to Biostar (always liked them)