BIOSTAR TForce TF7050-M2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: A beautiful board as any in the tforce series! Solid onboard graphics and sound! A great brisbane overclocker as well.

Cons: Almost gave it 4 stars because of the BIOS issues. Currently available BIOS has no PWM fan settings(even though there are two pages in the manual dedicated to it) , will not cold boot my WD 500 GB SATA hard drive, and the temperatures are off by 10 degrees C for the brisbane chips. Yes there is a beta BIOS on AVS forums that fixes all of the issues but it should have been that way in the shipped BIOS. Also the northbridge heatsink needs to be slightly bigger. They kept it small so the board would fit in the box with the swag bag.

Overall Review: Yes it is a great overclocker but people who make claims of 3 GHz from a 3600 brisbane need to start mentioning memory and settings in their reviews. Also if you don't Prime95 test both cores for 12 hours I'm not buying your OC results. Don't run one copy for an hour and say its overclocked. Look on the web for instructions how to max both cores to 100%. I am running my brisbane 3600 at 280 x 9.5 for a OC of 2660 MHz with a 1 GB stick of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 675 memory. The memory is an allstar as I have it running 4-4-4-12 at 760 MHz. The hard wall is around 2750 but if I went with the same brand of memory in DDR2 800 I probably could have done better. If money is no issue I would go with the 2.3 GHz Brisbane. That way you can keep your HT multiplier at 4x and speed at 1000 MHz with a 250 bus speed. This will give you 2875 MHz on the CPU without having to be as agressive with the memory overclock.

Pros: All the features I wanted, except for firewire.

Cons: VGA error on boot. Must try several times to try to boot. Some previous messages here claim it's a power supply problem. Seems more likely that motherboard has a design flaw. My supply is an Apevia PS500 (X-Qpack2 case)

Overall Review: Biostar's web site and customer support do not inspire confidence.