Biostar H170GT3 Motherboard Review | Tek Syndicate

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Today we take a look at the Biostar H170GT3 . This plucky little MicroATX motherboard is based on the more mainstream H170 chipset but is capable of some more advanced features. While I can't recommend it for overclocking, owing mainly to the decision by Intel to nerf overclocking on non-Z chipsets, and partly due to weaker power delivery circuit, it otherwise held up to my torture tests and worked well on linux.



This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://teksyndicate.com/videos/biostar-h170gt3-motherboard-review
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Not really what I would call budget solution but might be me looking at those 85€ AM3+ boards with added feature set.
10,000 hours is not that much speaking of run time. My mobo as is ran at least 19k hours (and was cheaper when I got it).

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I have had two Biostar motherboards. The first was back in the Core 2 Duo days, and it died a horrible horrible death at the hands of a bad PSU. My second was an FM2 A88W, which had my A10-5800K. I got it during a post-Black Friday sale, when they were selling motherboards with free 8gb of RAM. It was a solid board that never gave me any issues; sold it to a friend recently, and it's still going strong.

Biostar has been making some real strides to try to improve their image over the last couple of years, with mixed success. I'll probably end up buying a board of theirs in the future, just to see how they kept up with the times.

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I have only had good luck with biostar. and will probably continue using them in all my builds when I can. I can only speak for their AMD boards though. Currently running on an a88w with a 860k and a 390. Only problem I had was the bios did not support the 860k (I bought the mobo the day the 860k came out) and it only took moments before they sent me a new bios by mail. I had this same issue with Gigabyte on a friends build and had to purchase a bios from them. I have done 3 large deployments of their socket am1 and fm2 motherboards, and out of more than 300 builds I have had to return 2 doa motherboards (through newegg, took very little effort) and 3 warranty replacements where the chipset failed. The warranty replacement was a bit of a process, but over all I received replacements within a week. I am waiting for their AM4 boards!

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I've used biostar in the past. Last board from them I had was for my phenom II. They had solid boards when I bought in the past and their boards looked decent in a build (red/black). They did at the time lack features which dropped costs and their bios was a bit dull but still totally functional and they last. I'd like to use them again in the future like AM4 but we'll see.