Thread: Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI motherboard

At first glance, the Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI very clear: no bulky heat sinks, no pin-mass, only the most slots. This is the Main Board of the appropriate base for Intel's current and proposed Core-i5/i7-CPUs due to reduced equipment is not too much on your wallet. E-SATA and Firewire looking Biostar T5XE the CFX-SLI in vain. Anyone with USB connections are satisfied, place six pins and sockets immediately usable for four more that you using the supplied bracket (not included in) can be retrofitted. The same is true of a Serial port.

The board has 16x PCIe slots that support SLI and Crossfire X two. If two video cards together to form a composite, reduces the speed of the two slots on each of 8x. In addition, slots is the Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI with two 1x PCI-equipped. Supplied with cable ties, two GPU-bridge links and a Velcro found. Booting from USB disk and USB stick worked smoothly and quickly. So we were able to PC-WEL-T Edition BartPE within a few seconds of start.

Not quite like us, however, the power consumption of the Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI: 2.8 watts when turned off are clearly too much. The measured value in idle mode was okay, however the result for a load back to high. The overclocking capabilities of the Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI were below average. Although they can be tested with the bios version FSB speeds of 100 to 800 MHz and PCI clock speeds of 100 to 150 MHz, which is very much.

The multiplier is not directly accessible, and also for the CPU voltage there's little room for tweaking. The Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI is currently the best motherboard of the PC-WEL-T test field. This becomes noticeable in terms of equipment. As far as the tempo, it was in midfield, and the overclocking options were okay. So if cheap motherboard for Intel's Core i7 i5 or are looking for and can do without any bells and whistles on, is with the Biostar T5XE CFX-SLI good advice.