Event Coverage

CeBIT 2009 - Part 1

By Vijay Anand - 5 Mar 2009

Biostar's Booth

Biostar's Booth

 Biostar's Booth.

 Need something better than an AMD 740G board but not quite as powerful as the AMD 780G? We're not quite certain if such a fine segmentation is needed, but that's where AMD's 760G chipset comes to fill in the patch and Biostar has this A760GB M2+ microATX motherboard. The Southbridge is an updated SB700, the SB710.

 This is Biostar's latest AM3 motherboard with DDR3 memory support, the TA790GX A3+. This board has a 4 + 1 phase power design, 128MB of SidePort frame buffer and all the other expected features from a full functional AMD 790GX board.

 The Biostar Tpower X58 motherboard has a 12-phase power design, full SLI and CrossFire support, dual Gigabit LAN, dual FireWire 400 ports and all the other features of any good Intel X58 board.

 And here's their upcoming Intel P55 motherboard for Core i5 processors (LGA-1156). This new upcoming processor will incorporate even more of the traditional Northbridge functionality like PEG support. It will however only support a single PCIe x16 interface; thus the dual PEG slots seen on the board are most certainly for PCIe X8 / X8 operation. Only CrossFire support is available on these boards.

 Seen here for the first time ever is the new Intel P55 chipset uncovered. This is a single-chip platform controller hub for the new Core i5 based systems. Expect board designs to get simpler and hopefully cheaper for us customers.

 And last but not least, here's a look at their new GeForce GTS 250 graphics card. It will have DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs. Clocks are at 740MHz for the core and 2200MHz DDR for the 512MB memory.

 

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