Biostar TForce TF570 SLI - Testing

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Testing

Putting all the components in and getting it to fire up was easy. I had no problems whatsoever. Biostar has been known to have quite a few dead on arrival motherboards in the past, but they seem to be getting better with this. Here is a look at the test computer:

• AMD A64 X2 4200+

• (2) 1 GB G.Skill DDR2

• 8600 SLI

• Biostar TForce TF570 SLI

• OCZ Powerstream 520 Watts

• Windows Vista

I will be testing stock compared to the overclocked speed. First, I updated the BIOS via the Windows program, since the BIOS one requires a floppy. One of the first problems I ran into was a huge vcore fluctuation. It seems at idle to decide to give itself a lot more voltage than it’s told to. When I had it set to 1.575 it would idle at 1.615. This creates a really hard time to overclock with this motherboard. It is clearly not a good motherboard for overclocking.

After a night of tweaking, anything over 220 FSB was not stable at all. So the best I was able to see was 2.4 GHz. This is horrible and I would highly recommend moving on if you want to overclock. If you want a stable feature-filled motherboard to run stock, then this looks like a good board, but only testing will show us how well this motherboard does.

WinRAR

This benchmark uses some important parts of the motherboard: the CPU, the memory, the chipset, and the southbridge. This test will see how fast the PC can compress and extract data. Higher speeds are better.

Super Pi

This benchmark computes the numbers of pi. It will need input from the memory, CPU and chipset.

PCMark 05

This tests everything about the computer, from gaming to word processing. It will give a great look at everything about the board. The CPU will be used in all the tests, but things like the audio, network IC, the chipset, and even the hard drives and memory will also play a role.

As you can see none of these results show any significant gains in any tests. This is due to the lack of a good overclock.

Conclusion

Today we got to take a look at the BioStar TForce TF570 SLI. Let’s point out the good points first. This is one heavily feature-packed motherboard. It has everything one could ask for, and at a cheap price. At stock speeds this is a good motherboard and a worthwhile investment. 

Time for the bad points. This thing can't overclock well at all. I'm not sure what happened, but overclocking worked poorly if at all with this CPU. All in all I wouldn't recommend this motherboard for anyone, especially overclockers. Please move on to another motherboard.

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· First of all there is a 3rd fan connector by the CPU for a 3 or 4 pin cpu cooler....    · I guess when a computer parts maker is down, crap critics will try to keep them down...    · I used the automatic overclocking feature that this board has, at the lowest preset...   >>> Post your comment now!

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