{"video_id":"Du2dHeg55JM","title":"Biostar T5 XE P55 Core i5 Crossfire Value Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":320,"segments":[{"start_s":0.68,"end_s":8.4,"text":"So today we're going to be having a look at a board from biostar okay so biostar","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.839,"end_s":10.4,"text":"boards are they're never the the most","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.4,"end_s":16.279,"text":"premium motherboard on the market but what they do represent is an incredibly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.88,"end_s":18.0,"text":"good value a stable overall board and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.279,"end_s":21.92,"text":"really an incredibly good value because you'll get features on a bio star board","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.199,"end_s":26.679,"text":"within the same price point that you just wouldn't see 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extreme durable capacitors uh unique pwm design so it's called tweak Tech easy BIOS update by USB flash disc that's a huge one this is so convenient it makes it a huge difference overclocking Navigator engine rapid switch to shut down or restart the system you just have so I'm guessing that's onboard switches I guess we'll we'll find out you know what why don't we just open this thing up oh wait no this is pretty good okay BIOS relif resume crushed BIOS by USB flash dis that is terrific okay so let's get this opened up it supports core i7 as well as Core i5 and core I3 processors like all p55 boards so let's see what we've got for accessories first of all they've included two SA cables one Molex to SATA power adapter and then one IDE cable and they've included it with this Nifty little blue uh velcro biostar cable tie that's kind of nice so now you can go ahead and take that off your cables and then use that to uh help manage the cables inside your case that's terrific okay that's well thought out okay then we've got an IO sheet uh I/O plate so you can see that you've actually got to pop these out yourself which is I haven't seen that one in a little while okay so then you've got to use manual which is wow that's some pretty good languages we got there cameraman's iPhone's going off I think he's going to try and escape and go find out what it is wow this has like Arabic languages oh no I even got it right this is Arabic they have like everything in here polish that's awesome Portuguese Spanish French German oh and then like it's like 90% English Okay um that works for me let's have a look at the board itself so let's get this out right away here got one little piece of tape holding it on all right so the actual board itself you can see that even though the Box might not be the nicest they haven't skimped on the overall quality and look of the board so you've got large heat sinks in the places where they belong so on the voltage Regulators which looks like a four-phase setup okay and then they've also got a nice decent looking heat sink on the chipset itself I mean this is uh it's a p-55 chipset it doesn't use up a whole lot of power so you don't need to worry too much about that so let's start with the CPU socket like all p55 boards it's got an LGA 1156 socket so that has support for core i7 Core i5 and core I3 but you should note that for Core i5 and core I3 processors you won't have support for their onboard graphics with a p-55 board now like all p55 boards we've got support for dual Channel DDR3 four slots and then you've got your power connectors in their ideal locations with the 24 pin on the right hand Edge and the four pin up at the top left now this is something that I'm really happy to see on a value board because that's a lot of the time the little inconveniences that you start to run into on value boards is they won't have the power connectors in the right places or they they won't have things well fought out in terms of the ports now let's keep moving down the board here so we've got one IDE port here and then we've got a legacy floppy Port way down here all right so in terms of SATA 2 we have six SATA 2 and these are running off of the chipset now actually there you go I just said sometimes the port layouts are not ideal on a value board and that's what we're seeing here because if you actually install two dual slot graphics cards in this motherboard you will block the top three SATA ports unless you're using right angle connectors on them so then you've got your color-coded front panel connectors a power switch and a reset onboard switch I really like to see that again on a value board like this two front USB headers and then expansion slots why don't I just hold the camera so the cameraman can go in answer his phone just get that okay he just turned it off okay so then we've got a PCI Express 16x two PCI Express 1X another pcii Express 16x like all p-55 boards these will run at 8X 8X and Crossfire then we have two PCI slots and let's just move around to the back and see what we've got for Io so it includes two PS2 ports one for the mouse and one for the keyboard six USB 2.0 ports 1 GB Lan and 7.1 audio so no frills no gimmicks just a like many biostar well actually I should say almost all biostar t- series boards in the past have been great performers for the dollar they don't have the gimmicky features but what they do have is good value the features you really need to get the performance out of your system and I just thought now we'd take a quick look at this thing and on the back there's a back plate thanks for checking it out"}