Biostar TZ77XE4 Z77 Motherboard Preview
Andy Ruffell / 12 years ago
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From a first glance, this board certainly has it all in terms of looks and style, as it’s simply is stylish and unique with the bright orange colouring. We can see a Phanteks orange CPU cooler and Geil Enhance Corsa really going well to match this board and making for a very brightly colour system. The layout is good with plenty of features from memory support, to SATA ports, even to the functionality behind the PCI expansion lanes.
While this isn’t a top-end board, it has some very strong features provided by the Intel Z77 chipset, and memory support up to 2600MHz really makes things stand out above some of the boards we’ve already looked at and obviously still gives you extra functionality in terms of pushing things even further, which early reports show is more than possible with the new Ivy Bridge processors.
The display outputs on this board will see a lot of consumers happy with full support for DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA and DVI; you’ll never be left with a problem of connecting your display monitor.
It’s nice to also see a few favourites for overclockers with a debug LED, power and reset buttons and clear CMOS too, and from the initial sales pitch of T-Overclocker, things could look promising for what’s on offer, software wise, but time will tell as to when we release the full review with overclocking results.
There certainly seems to be a lot on offer here, and with no word on pricing, it’s hard to tell where this will fit in the market. It seems to offer some good, solid features but I can see it being aimed at the light enthusiast and not being able to compete with some of the bigger brands in terms of Asus ROG and MSI Military boards, but once again; time will tell.
As much as we’d love to show you performance figures on this board, we are restricted, but can just comment to say that we will have this board fully benchmarked around launch and it should make for an interesting board, and with that in mind, we hope to see Biostar making a further push into the market, especially in the UK, as if the style of their boards are anything to go by, I have complete faith in the performance behind it all.
