Biostar today announced the release of its mainstream TH55B HD motherboard, which the company claims balances competitive pricing with "outstanding" overclocking performance.
The TH55B HD is a mATX board decked out with a black PCB, 5-phase X.D.C. solid state power design, high-end Japanese capacitors, and other manufacturing tidbits that have become buzzwords among enthusiasts.
Probably more meaningful to most is the inclusion of 4 DDR3 memory slots with support for 16GB of memory at up to 2000MHz (OC), a full-speed PCI-E x16 port, PCI-E x1 port, two standard PCI ports, 6 SATA 2.0 ports, and "Power" and "Restart" hotkeys. It also boasts HDMI, DVI, and VGA ports.
Image Credit: Biostar
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tkddan87
January 18, 2010 at 2:53pm
This comment isnt really aimed at this board, even though i do like it. Im just wondering when or why have we not changed over to the BTX standard. What about the ATX is so great, ATX seems to go against what we as computer builders/elitists think. The whole idea behind the BTX standard was to improve front to back airflow by positioning the ram slots parallel with the airflow. Eeven from the picture above of the mATX there could be room made(granted im not a motherboard designer) if the socket was moved up and to the right, the ram slots could be moved dirrectly between the various pci slots and the socket. Given at how most data from that flows to and from the pci slots goes through the ram anyway this stands to reason to only increase the speed of computing by reducing distance of the mobo circuitry. it would also allow better positioning of USB, SATA, IDE, PATA, etc front connectors on the right side of the board. perhaps we can see this change in the next year or two. just a thought.
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