Biostar has kept pretty quiet lately, but Intel's introduction of its Sandy Bridge-E processors will also mark the arrival of a new motherboard from the Taiwanese maker that is known as the TPower X79.
Biostar's upcoming creation will use the company's now traditional black and red color scheme and includes all the features one would come to expect from a high-end motherboard, including AMD CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI support.
Just like most other
LGA 2011 solutions out there, the TPower X79 comes equipped with four DIMM sockets supporting speeds up to 2400MHz when the board is overclocked.
To the left of the memory sockets, Biostar has placed a series of expansion slots, including three PCI Express x16 slots that are compatible with tri-way CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI configurations, according to
Biostar.
The Taiwanese company hasn't said how many lanes are routed to each of these slots, but most probably the two red ones are PCIe x16 compliant, while the white one is limited at supporting PCI Express x8 speeds.
The rest of the expansion options include a pair of PCIe x1 slots, a legacy 32-bit PCI slot, and no less then seven SATA ports, at least two of these working at 6Gbps speeds.
An additional port is routed to the back of the board as an eSATA connector, where is accompanied by six USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1-channel audio with optical and coaxial S/PDIF out.
Two more USB 3.0 ports are available through an on-board header that is placed right near a series of Power, Reset and Clear CMOS buttons as well as near an POST80 debug LED display.
Power to the CPU and memory is provided via a 9-phase VRM, which on the TPower X79 gets its juice from not only just the regular 24-pin connector but also from a pair of 8-pin plugs, while a MOLEX plug delivers extra power for multi-GPU setups.
Biostar hasn't revealed any information regarding the price of the TPower X79, but it did say that the
motherboard will arrive on November 14.
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