so I'll be having a look at a board from biostars T Series this is a TA 790 GX B3
so that means it's a 790 GX motherboard it has support for the thenm 2 X4
processor and DDR3 it also has support for a bunch of other sort of standard
features like SATA 2 uh HD audio DVI
gigabit Ethernet and let's have a look at the back so you can see they've
they're calling out some of their of their features so you've got onboard
power and reset buttons Japanese solid capacitors okay some about an
overclocking utility and then default three overclocking modes in the BIOS oh
that's kind of neat so they've got some overclocking profiles in the BIOS the
thing about a biostar board is that you're not going to tend to see a whole lot of unnecessary bells and whistles
but what you do get is a solid board at a very very reasonable price so here's
the users manual which is mostly in English and then uh I think includes
yeah includes some some random stuff Japanese Arabic Russian polish
Portuguese Spanish Italian and French and German but that's only like the
index it doesn't actually include any of the instructions in those languages so
there you go and then we've got a drivers and utilities CD okay download
the latest off the biostar website don't bother using that then we have one Molex
to SATA power adapter two SATA cables that are yellow and one IDE cable and
that comes in a nice little uh cable P velcro thing that you can use for cable
management in your case when you're done installing the motherboard we've got an
IO Shield all right and then let's get
to the motherboard itself so while the packaging leaves a little bit to be
desired you'll find that like all bio star
boards once I get the tape off once I get the tape off come off
tape wow that's a long piece of tape that they're using you know just in case
the package flies away okay so once you
get the board itself out it's a fairly sharp uh sharp looking board so they've
used like a green orange and blue color scheme for this one and so why don't we
start with the CPU socket you got support for am3 CPUs which includes the
965 Black Edition AMD's current Flagship
CPU okay then you've got 1 two three
four I'm not sure how many phases the power design is but it looks like
somewhere between four and five based on how many of these there are all right so
then we've got control we've got support
for your typical DDR3 dual Channel memory so four slots for that and then
we have our power connectors in their usual ideal locations with the 24 pin
along the right hand Edge and the four pin power connector up at the top left
now in terms of SATA connectors we've got see this is the kind of thing this
that you will tend to see a little bit on value boards is that the layouts
might not be exactly optimal so you can see that the top SATA port is actually
going to be covered by a dual slot fulllength graphics card now if you have
a single slot graphics card then you're good to go you can use all six of the
SATA 2 connectors but if you do have a dual slot graphics card you can probably
only use five of them shouldn't be that big of a deal you got your clear clear
SEO switch here one IDE port here are your onboard power and reset switches as
well as your color-coded front panel switches three USB 2.0 front panel
headers I really like that I don't think two is enough because a lot of cases
have four front USB and then if you want to even have like a card reader and then
and then yeah exactly that's it so if you wanted to have a card reader you
wouldn't be able to but if you have three headers you can have four front
USB and a card reader I love that so then we've got a floppy connector here
then in terms of expansion ports we've got one PCI Express 16x slot two PCIe 1X
slots and three PCI because again it's a value board so you're going to be
expecting someone using this as like an upgrader board to have some Legacy PCI
stuff that they want to carry forward with them you can see there is a dinky
little heat sink on this chipset right here and that's all that's really
necessary for it but then we've got a fairly beefy looking uh fairly large
heat sink on the actual 790 GX chipset itself so that pretty much oh no okay
there's one auxiliary power here so that's just I think this is going to be
highly optional okay so it's only if you're running an extremely high
powerered graphics card here um and even then you probably don't need to use that
so then on the back okay like most 790 GX boards we do have support for onboard
Graphics we've got DVI and VGA and then we have two PS2 ports 4 USB 1 GB
Ethernet and then we have support for
wow okay I haven't seen a a board with a 790 GX chipset that only has three audio
ports so microphone headphones and then I believe that's a line in or line out
and I think you can also use software to configure it for 5.1 with no mic so
thank you for checking out my quick unboxing of the TA 790 GX
B3