Biostar TFORCE 550 Motherboard

(Athlon 64 x2/Athlon 64, Socket AM2, nForce 550, ATX, 8GB DDR, 1000MHz Bus - MPN: TFORCE550)

Description: The BioStar TFORCE 550 motherboard features AM2 socket with nVIDIA nForce 550 chipset. This motherboard comes with 1x PCI Express 16x, 1x PCI Express 1x, and 4 PCI slots. It also has four memory sockets with a maximum 4GB DDR2 memory. This .... Read More

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Date Reviewed: 09/30/2007
woodbutcher61 from IL Member Since: Mar 2007 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 3 Months	BIOSTAR TFORCE 550 - AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Strengths: Excellent over-clocking board with solid caps, Gigabit Ehternet, SATA RAID Weaknesses: Different audio chips used depending on mobo version, Over-clock voltage on memory goes from 2.1v to 2.4v via jumper. No Raid 5 Summary: This is a solid board for a reasonable price for the AMD AM2 platform. Running an Athlon X2 4400+ at 10x multi with a 300mhz cpu bus for 3 ghz. Completely stable with no issues running XP pro. This board has "built in" OC options, with names listed as V-6 (stock settings), V-8, V-10 and V-12, V-12 being the highest preset OC option. However, I recommend against using the built in OC options as they increase the CPU voltage way more then needed. On the V-12 option the preset increased the CPU voltage over 1.55 volts, considerably higher then needed. This seems to be a trait with Biostar boards and there preset OC/voltage options. However, the BIOS contains all the necessary options to manually push an inexpensive CPU to the limit. Also, I have noticed that voltages /temps reported are slightly higher then actual, about 5%. Also, the onboard audio chip on my board (Ver 6) is an ALC 888 (7.1 + 2), while I've noticed that they seem to be changing pretty often as it looks like the newer versions are using the ALC850 (7.1). Not a huge deal unless your a audio enthusiast like myself. Overall an excellent board if your looking for a solid over-clocking AM2 board with out all the frills Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 08/22/2007
John Jiang Member Since: Sep 2006 View Member's: Reviews	Perfect motherboard Strengths: Cheap, fast. Easy installation, fan on north bridge, four memory slots. Weaknesses: Four memory slots are too close to the CPU, which limits the distribution of heat! Summary: Build a system with AMD X2 3600+ CPU, Biostar Tforce 550 motherboard, Seagate 7200.10 320G hard drive, 2GB kingston DDR2-800 memory, BFG 7900GS graphic card. It runs great! Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 07/25/2007
tcool93 Member Since: Jul 2006 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 5 Days	I'm happy with this board Strengths: Lots of PCI slots and an excellent BIOS Weaknesses: Just one defect on mine. Summary: I purchased this board mainly because of all the PCI slots its has, and I only will ever use one PCIE video card. Plus it has great reviews for its BIOS options. The BIOS is very good and overclock friendly. It even has a built in memtest option which usually only comes on much more expensive motherboards. Another features the BIOS has is the ability to save several different bios setups. However I think mine is defective in this area because it forgets what I save in the preset option area. But thats the only problem I have had with it. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 06/08/2007
5buckser Member Since: Jun 2006 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 3 Months	biostar TFORCE 550 Motherboard Strengths: cheap - strong - overclock worthy Weaknesses: no firewire ,raid Summary: this mobo is fantastic overclock is easy and stable,it is not picky with memory memory voltage only goes up to 2.2 v but i can live with that. it it is actually not ugly once you see it live .bios crash reset automatically which is great im actually buying another 1 today ,lol Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 04/25/2007
cenglerp from MI Member Since: Apr 2005 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 30 Days	Great Affordable Motherboard for AMD X2 Processors (socket AM2) Strengths: Nice Layout, very easy to overclock Weaknesses: No firewire Summary: This motherboard is excellent, very easy to install and runs very stable with my new AMD 4600+ processor; highly recommended for those willing to build an affordable new computer to run Windows Vista. It has lots of expansion slots (4 PCI, 4 DIMMs, 6 USBs) and is very easy to overclock. The lack of firewire can be easily solved with an inexpensive PCI card (if needed). For the price this board is currently selling, it is the best deal around for those not planning to run SLi. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 04/16/2007
bblewis Member Since: Mar 2005 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 7 Days	a great buy if you want to overclock Strengths: 1. great overclock ability 2. 4 PCI slots 3. 4 DIMM slots Weaknesses: 1. no 1394/firewire 2. only one PCIe x16 Summary: If you want to overclock, this is THE motherboard for you. Tons of options in BIOS (you need to download the latest version). No onboard video is actually a plus. 4 DIMM slots and 4 PCI slots let you use some old gears. Too bad it has no 1394. Only one PCIe x 16. Overall, it is great buy for OCers. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.