Biostar Announces T-Series TA770 A2+ motherboard based on the AMD 770 series chipset For Phenom Processors
BIOSTAR Microtech Int'l Corp., a professional manufacturer of motherboards has launched T-Series TA770 A2+, based on the latest AMD 770 Chipset. The model supports the upcoming AMD Phenom™ series multi-core processors, which support Dual Channel DDR2-1066, bigger L3 cache and offer optimized overclocking ability. TA770 A2+ is designed for performance, scalability, and personalization, which are coupled with innovative and efficient design incorporating brand new technologies. TA770 A2+ is also featuring HyperTransport™ 3.0 Technology and PCI Express® 2.0 to get the performance you need for immersive gaming, rich multimedia, and multi-tasking.
HyperTransport™ 3.0 Technology and PCI Express 2.0
HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology raises the data transfer speed from HT2.0G up to max. HT5.2G, a very speedy rate even for the latest standards. And PCI Express 2.0 platform is designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow’s most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5 GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express).
BIOSTAR TA770 A2+ offers two brand new features and Biostar original BIO-TEX™ technology that will satisfy the appetites of most power hungry early adapters of any new application hitting the market in coming months.
Just a thought, it looks like it's going to be a nice board, phenom compatibility, e sata, ht 3.0, pcie 2.0 lots of current tech including solid capacitors etc (looked it up over at biostar today searching mobos) but if your planning on using a pcie 1.0 sound card (especially X-fi sound blaster PCIE version) Sound blaster recommends against putting the sound card next to the video card. It can cause driver up dates to fail with the error "no compatible hardware found", I had the same issue on Asus M2N-E board, but it has pcie slots away from the PCIE 16x slots so I just moved the card. If you get that on the biostar board you got no where to go away from the GPU.
Not an issue for many but if you have or plan on PCIE sound it's a consideration.
