The BIOSTAR TForce 6100-939 motherboard delivers the superior performance you expect from NVIDIA for an incredible PC experience with power from the GeForce 6100 GPU and NVIDIA nForce 410 MCP. Industry-leading features including DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and NVIDIA PureVideo capability, 6-channel onboard audio, 8 USB2.0 ports, plus massive storage capacity through the nForce 410-supported array of 4 ATA-133 and 2 SATA ports allow this adaptable card to give your AMD Socket 939 desktop system the flexibility and power it needs to conquer any task. Biostar even includes an overclock quick guide in the TForce kit - a real surprise for a Micro ATX board with integrated graphics. What's more, the available options in BIOS are a lot more than what many will expect for a Micro ATX/Integrated Graphics board, and includes an Integrated Flashing option so that you don't have to load DOS or Windows to flash the BIOS.
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Great board!
- Comments: First you guys that are having trouble with dual channel. The directions are wrong. You need to put your DRAMS in every other slot like all NVIDA boards. This board runs dual channel GREAT! Secondly, if you want to up the FSB you have to drop HTT to 4 due to Hypertransport limitations. i.e. 1000 is the MAX well you might squeeze a little more than that ..but why? Finally get yourself some good tools to work with. Download CPUZ or SiSoftSandra to check the freg your memory is running at. The memory op speed is a function on the CPU mulitplier or the Hammer as this BIOS calls it. Example if your CPU mulipler is 11 and your FSB is 250 then set your Mem. Freq to 200. You'll get DDR 500 1 to 1 if your memory can handle it. Otherwise the memory dividers will start auto kicking in.
Also you guys running 4 DRAMs no board will do 1T with 4 slots running.
My Sytem:
3700 SD core @ 2.75 vcore 1.52(mine under volts pretty badly get CPUZ or something to check with or the hardware software
shipped with the board isn't bad)
1 gig Ballistix DDR 500
Connect3D 800GTO (unlocked to 16 pipes 540/570)
2 80GIG Hitachi SATAII in RAID 0
350 Watt MATX power supply
el cheap case
I'm still freakin' out on how little this set up cost compared to how fast this baby is! I'm just a whisper under FX-57 performace and this entire system cost less than 2/3 of the price of that chip. AND IT ALL CAME FROM RIGHT HERE AT NEWEGG!
Decent mATX mobo
- Pros: -Onboard video and PCIe X16 slot.
-Good overclocking features for a mATX mobo.
-onboard power and reset switch.
-integrated bios flashing utility in the bios.
-Good performance and stability
- Cons: -Biostar went with the cheaper 6100/NF410 chipset instead of the faster and more featured 6150/NF430. This means you won't have gigabit lan and limited to 2 SATA drives, etc.
-Location of the floppy header... as if anyone still use those things ;)
-cheap onboard sound.
- Other Thoughts: It gets a 5, since you can't give 4.5eggs.
Built with an Aspire X-Qpack, 512x2 OCZ value, AMD64 3700+ SanDiego, 7800GT CO, Audigy2, zalman 7000cu.
I put this system together mainly as a 2nd gaming machine, and doubles as a HTPC. This mobo is a decent platform to build upon. It has most things one need onboard, albeit in only passable quality. Given the price of the board, it is hard to fault BioStar for going with the cheaper sound and graphics solutions. This is easily rectified with adding on better components if one feels the need. Stands somewhere between mainstream and enthusiast boards. Good board for the money.
| Model | TForce6100-939 |
| CPU Socket Type | 939 |
| CPU Type | Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 |
| FSB | 1000MHz Hyper Transport (2000 MT/s) |
| North Bridge | NVIDIA GeForce 6100 |
1x Winner of Customer Choice Award - AMD Motherboards
Reviewed By: Happy Camper on 11/24/2005
Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
