Biostar TPower X58A v5.0 Review

It’s been a good six months since we last saw a Biostar motherboard. That was the relatively cheap and cheerful TA790GX A2+ that left us uninspired. This week we’ve got a Biostar TPower X58A motherboard for Core i7 CPUs, which takes us out of the realms of cheap and cheerful as the price is close to £200.

There are two versions of the Biostar X58; there’s the high-end TPower X58 which costs £215-£218 or you can save £15 and choose the TPower X58A that we’re reviewing. The difference in specification between the two models is fairly small as most of the features are shared by both motherboards. They both have three long PCI Express slots that support both CrossFire and SLI although things aren’t quite as simple as they appear. Sure, you get dual x16 PCIe 2.0 slots but the third slot only supports four lanes of PCI Express 2.0 so we’re not really talking about triple graphics slots.

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