BIOSTAR Announces the H61MHV3 Motherboard

[btarunr]

BIOSTAR, a leading brand of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices today, announces a refresh of their Intel H61MH series with the new H61MHV3 motherboard. Designed based on Intel's H61 single chip architecture, the new H61MHV3 motherboard from BIOSTAR breathes a fresh breath of life to older 2nd and 3rd generation processors from Intel.

Highly suited for business use and HTPC systems, the H61MHV3 motherboard comes with BIOSTAR's promised product reliability and long-lasting performance. It is capable of supporting up to 16 GB of DDR3 memory across 2 DIMM slots. USB 2.0 support with 8 USB ports provided with the motherboard for ease of use. Engineered to work well with Core i3, i5, i7, Pentium, and Celeron processors, the motherboard is designed with the latest components to provide smooth unhindered performance across all its components.



The H61MHV3's rear I/O panel consists of a single x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse port for users looking to connect their old keyboard or mouse to the system, Dual-display output capability with 1x VGA port, and an HDMI port that expresses bright and highly detailed content. Furthermore, it comes equipped with a single LAN port powered by Realtek RTL8111H chipset, 4x USB 2.0 ports, and 3x Audio out ports run by ALC897 audio codec capable of handling 7.1 Channels of High Definition Audio.

BIOSTAR's new H61MHV3 motherboard brings new hope for people with older components to last longer, essentially saving money and time. It works well for business and casual use for multitudes of use cases.



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[The red spirit]

2011 called, they want their motherboard back

 

[Post Nut Clairvoyance]

I am actually interested because I have a Sandy Bridge Dell SFF that can't fit my 1650S. Problem is this release only goes for a few countries. I don't think Australia will ever see this board, or anything of "old" new release.
Other than that, you can only make a board so cheap before you bottom out. for example the entirety of ASRock's HDV line. A320 boards can be found at $65 AUD and while the H61MHV3 does have newer(LOL) audio codec and Ethernet controller that matches the lowest end new boards, USB2 and SATA 3Gbs in 2021 is definitely more impactful, since older codec works too and older eth controller shouldn't be any different in use.
I do like the fact that boards like these can extend the lifetime of still-useful old processors, and is definitely a safer solution compared to buying H61 boards with recycled chipsets and zero QA boards off aliexpress for less than impressive price, but at the same time this and these boards probably will never have anything to do with me.

 

[The red spirit]

I am actually interested because I have a Sandy Bridge Dell SFF that can't fit my 1650S. Problem is this release only goes for a few countries. I don't think Australia will ever see this board, or anything of "old" new release.
Other than that, you can only make a board so cheap before you bottom out. for example the entirety of ASRock's HDV line. A320 boards can be found at $65 AUD and while the H61MHV3 does have newer(LOL) audio codec and Ethernet controller that matches the lowest end new boards, USB2 and SATA 3Gbs in 2021 is definitely more impactful, since older codec works too and older eth controller shouldn't be any different in use.
I do like the fact that boards like these can extend the lifetime of still-useful old processors, and is definitely a safer solution compared to buying H61 boards with recycled chipsets and zero QA boards off aliexpress for less than impressive price, but at the same time this and these boards probably will never have anything to do with me.

For some reason in my country there was time in 2020, where one computer part retailer started to sell new socket 775 Asrock boards for 16 Euros. It actually rivaled in price used boards and if you wanted to set up Core 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo system for some reason, it would had been an alright deal. Still, I found it really odd that they did that. Needless to say it was a terrible business for them as almost nobody bought them. They might have sold 2-3 boards per month.


I personally wouldn't want to buy that Biostar board for Sandy Bridge system. Those VRMs look really weak and it has wacky layout. It might throttle CPUs at stock speed.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Hardly a breath of fresh air without even basic features like USB3 or SATA3 LMAO.

 

[silentbogo]

For some reason in my country there was time in 2020, where one computer part retailer started to sell new socket 775 Asrock boards for 16 Euros.

Those were probably leftovers, but as surprising as it is, companies like Biostar, AsRock and ECS were making G41 boards all the way 'till 2018-ish or so.

 

[Blaylock]

I think Biostar is aiming at the business sector mainly these days as their last few announcements have not included enthusiast grade components.

 

[AusWolf]

On the exact same day a friend of mine gave me a 750 Ti that compelled me to order a second-hand 3rd gen Core i7 to transform my H61-based HTPC into a low-power secondary gaming rig. How strange!

 

[The red spirit]

Those were probably leftovers, but as surprising as it is, companies like Biostar, AsRock and ECS were making G41 boards all the way 'till 2018-ish or so.

Could be. The thing is that I almost wanted to buy that, get some cheap quad core and have a cheap and stable retro computer until I realized that I already have too many computers. If they had some socket 754 board though, I would have bought one for sure. Because I have many parts gathering dust and they are all socket 754 compatible.

 

[Post Nut Clairvoyance]

For some reason in my country there was time in 2020, where one computer part retailer started to sell new socket 775 Asrock boards for 16 Euros. It actually rivaled in price used boards and if you wanted to set up Core 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo system for some reason, it would had been an alright deal. Still, I found it really odd that they did that. Needless to say it was a terrible business for them as almost nobody bought them. They might have sold 2-3 boards per month.


I personally wouldn't want to buy that Biostar board for Sandy Bridge system. Those VRMs look really weak and it has wacky layout. It might throttle CPUs at stock speed.

I have i5-2400, so even a three phase without heatsink should handle AIDA64 FPU frying test.

I think 775 is only fit for offline PC or extremely barebone computing now. I got my 990SFF for 95$ AUD. 16EUR 775 is 25 AUD, plus cheapest C2Q on AliExpress (another 25$), plus a cooler ($10), DRAM ($10), PSU($10 ""1000W"" nuke), even if you intend to run OS off a USB drive you already own, 80$ for the worst 2nd hand component makes this a mistake rather than a choice.
I do have 2 775 systems, they need a dGPU to be capable of watching youtube over 720p, and is otherwise destroyed by second hand Sandy's.

The Sandy system will be in my past soon. just ordered 11400F with B560M Aorus Pro, as the latter is selling at 150$ AUD sale (steal).
What about the 775 system? I can't even sell those as no one would want them. Time to donate perhaps.

 

[Ghostline91]

Yeah clearly for business use, but their enthusiast boards have been getting some good reviews recently too like the Z590