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BIOSTAR TForce TA790GX A3+ AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

DDR3, HDMI, FIREWIRE, CrossFire X™ and Radeon™

BIOSTAR TForce TA790GX A3+ ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

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$154.99

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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 2 years

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Return for refund within: 30 days
Return for replacement within: 30 days
Restocking Fee: Yes

Review Summary (read all 52 Reviews, write a review)

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Total Reviews:	52

bad motherboard, bad service

Reviewed By: kyh on 2/2/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Looks good, has everything I need except SPDIF port.

Cons: Very angry. I got a bad motherboard, which made the system unstable and restart randomly. At first, I though that it was just incompatible with the memory, so I bought another set of memory. However, the problem still existed. Then, I requested RMA, which it the slowest RMA I ever had. It took me almost 3 weeks to receive another motherboard.
However, this is not over, and I got the exactly the same problem with new motherboard. At this time, I made a wrong decision to doubt CPU and power supply, and I RMA CPU, bought another power supply. After I tested my computer with brand new CPU and power supply, I was really angry. The problem still existed!! I got 2 motherboard with the problem!! What is the possibility? Or they might just give me the bad motherboard I sent to them.

Finally, I gave up, and bought a ASUS motherboard, and now it's working.

Wasted more than $200 and 2 months on replacement.

Other Thoughts: Receiving a bad motherboard is unfortunate, because nobody can make things perfect. However, the bad service is unacceptable.

Don't buy a motherboard from such a company with bad quality and service.

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Worked without a hitch

Reviewed By: veeaaa on 1/30/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Everything plugged in easy and it fired right up. One thing to remember is this board does not support SLI and the RAM is 1333.

My spec:
Antec 1200 case
BIOSTAR TForce TA790GX
Antec Signature 650w power supply
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB internal HD
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
XFX HD-577A-ZNDC Radeon HD 5770
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

Cons: None

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Pretty decent board

Reviewed By: NA5M on 1/29/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Pros: Inexpensive (Got it for free, basically! Got a great deal at Fry's: $178 combo deal for a Phenom II x4 965 BE and this MB!). Nice SATA cables. The stock CPU fan is *not* noisy despite what some peeps say (you can adjust how aggressively the fan spins in the BIOS). Runs Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (beta 7100) stably. I'm not an OC'er, but the BIOS seems to offer a lot of customizability. Easy BIOS update from within Windows via BIOSTAR update utility. Pure AM3. Cute little system reset & system power-on buttons built onto the MB (why would you really need these?). Decent on-board video, so if you're not a mega-gamer, you won't really need to buy a vid card.

Cons: Thin PCB (not a big con). BIOS documentation weak (big con, in my book). Stock BIOS had "SYS TEMP", but upon upgrading to the latest BIOS version, "SYS TEMP" got removed :( For this board, I think SYS TEMP is the temp of the South(or North?)Bridge chip. This chip was SCREAMING hot to the touch upon first boot (71C). After Windows got installed & updated BIOS, this chip is now merely warm to the touch. A fat vid card in the primary PCIE slot looks like it will encroach upon the adjacent PCI slot. Hopefully, you have one or fewer PCI card needs. Multi-GPU vid cards are incompatible (I've read). Do your homework on this board before trying CrossFire. Can't seem to find in the BIOS where to switch between Ganged & UnGanged (dual channel & single channel) memory mode. I dont' like the sideways facing SATA heads. No E-SATA :(

Other Thoughts: Before you low-egg this MB, give it a chance & make sure the BIOS settings are correct (and don't ever use the drivers that come on the CD! Windows 7 will load its own!). One reviewer said his keyboard won't work. He didn't say if it was a PS/2 or a USB. If USB, then make sure USB keyboard support is enabled, etc. I was able to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (beta 7100) version with no problem. I don't know why people are having trouble with the RTM version (maybe their BOISes aren't configured correctly, AHCI, e.g.?). I was even using the "08-04-09" bios that came with the MB. I updated the BIOS with the Windows BIOS upgrade app to the "12-08-09" version with no problem.