BIOSTAR TA75M FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: HDMI, DVI, and VGA inputs. Plenty of SATA connections. Well built. Great documentation. You can use your mouse in the BIOS UI.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Running good for close to two weeks. Put into a basic <$400 build for my parents: AMD A8-3850 APU BIOSTAR TA75M Motherboard 4GB (2x2GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws X 1600 RAM 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 Hard drive 380W Antec Earthwatts PSU Rosewill R101-P-BK Case

Pros: You can overclock pretty well. I have my A8 3570k running at ~3.2ghz with only 1.3v. Stock is 1.4 which seems a little excessive. GPU is 900mhz, up from 600mhz. Bus speed is 112 instead of the stock 100. Memory is 1600 over clocked to 1800. I also have the Hd6670. My video scores just as high as a 6770. 3dmark 2011 is ~2515 and vintage mark is ~9500. I have the harddrive running on IDE since it will not post if you are running ACHI after 102+ bus speed. But my SSD is fast enough so whatever. I am using a stock AM2+ quad core cpu fan (the one with 4 heat pipes) and it keeps the CPU at 50*C under full load using prime95 for 5hours. The stock cooler was trash. I have this in a HTPC so the temperatures are a little bit on the high side. If I had a larger free flowing case it would be so much better. I also have cinebench test scores and what not. I will upload some charts for you guys.

Cons: I think I lost hiberation/ sleep after overclocking the brains out of everything. Also some issue with the the SSD not picking up once in a while. For sure its due to the overclock, but I usually just leave my computer on 24/7.

Overall Review: I think I can break the 2600 mark on 3dmark2011 and 10k mark on vintagemark. This baby was no I5. But it works just fine and all for around ~350 bucks. FYI I bought the board refurbished. CPU 80, HTPC case 50, motherboard 50, 8 gb rams 40, HD6670 lowprofile ddr5 70, free 750gb HD, corsair 90gb SSD 80, Free sata DVD drive, Free AMD AM2+ cooler with 4 copper heat pipes, and wifi card 30. I can play SC2 on Ultra/Extreme setting while getting 100+ FPS and during intense graph about 50-60FPS.

Pros: USB 3.0, HDMI port, 4 memory slots. The motherboard was fine when it worked. It died in less than a year and Biostar's tech support is nowhere to be found. I had to buy a new motherboard (ASRock) which actually is faster and more stable.

Cons: Bad bios setup screen, Limited user manual. Poor customer service (phone and internet)

Overall Review: The 3 year manufacturers warranty is a good selling point but what good is it when Biostar doesn't even have tech support for an RMA.

Pros: The lights on the board itself were pretty. Other than that, I wouldn't know since it didn't post.

Cons: THE @#*&^ THING WOULDN'T $^#(% POST right out of the box!!! My mom called me from CA to let me know her old computer had finally gone belly up after six years of faithful service. Naturally, I hate to think of ma and pa not having the ability to play solitaire, so I did what any good, nerdy son would do: I called my little bro and we agreed to split the bill on a new system for the parents, and I would slap it together and send it down to them. When I told my mom what we planned, she literally wept tears of joy for getting a new comp from me and the little bro. Should be a walk in the park. I'm a pretty geeky guy. I've built at least 18 different systems over the years and none of them failed. Normally, I have a few rules of thumb: Only use Western Digital for the HD (had too many bad Seagate experiences), only use AMD processors (they're decent enough and priced well), always splurge the money on the power suppply, and *until this time*, only use ASUS or MSI for the MoBo. However, the reviews on the Biostar looked decent enough, I thought "what the heck, should be fine..." WRONG. So, soooooo wrong. I'm now out $11.55 in shipping to RMA my MoBo back to Newegg because I violated my own rules. This is the first and may become the last time I use Biostar in a build. It's bad enough my folks have to wait another full week before I can send them their new comp, but on top of that, I have to have all these freakin' computer parts sitting on my desk until I get a new MoBo (not to mention the tremendous pain in the rear-end it was to have rip the entire build apart once it was assembled to begin with.

Overall Review: Well, this has been cathartic, but I'm still pretty fumed over the whole ordeal. Seriously, I am pretty frustrated with this first Biostar experience and will likely go back to sticking with ASUS and MSI.

Pros: had all the features wanted for a good price

Cons: the most unstable board i have ever had. i have built nearly a dozen pc's using ASUS or GIGABYTE boards with no problems in the last 3 years. this mobo looked good for an inexpensive FM1 build mainly for web and some low level graphic apps. purchased this board in june 2012. worked good right out of the box. fast forward to october this year, screen freezes after 30 minutes or so of use. then blue screen. did a bios upgrade, no change. contacted BIOSTAR tech and was told to remove 1 memory stick. no change. replaced the 8 gb (2x4) g-skill with a 2 gb CRUCIAL stick just for grins. pc worked ok for a few days, then refused to post at startup.. moved the memory around to new slot, got constant beeping from mobo with no post. whooooo, pc shut down all by itself while writing this review. scary. moved the 2gb stick to a 3rd slot and now is working ok, may have 2 dead memory slots out of 4. sending it to BIOSTAR for warranty repair. will upgrade this review if and when i get it back and test it.

Overall Review: build is BIOSTAR TA75M AMD A-6-3670K Llano AS BLACK 2.7GHz quad core 8 GB G-SKILL 1333 WESTERN DIGITAL 500gb HD no tweaking, used as it came.

Pros: Good for Media Center on Windows 7 No major utilization on the 4 processor cores No noticeable differences for HD recordings; new and preexisting are nice

Cons: Requires extra setup before using Media Center on Windows 7

Overall Review: Acquired in a combo with the AMD A8 3780K. I already had an HTPC setup with an Intel i5; but wanted to make my home setup more efficient so: a) Moving the i7 to a VM only box, b) Making the i5 my primary desktop c) Made the AMD the HTPC box. Placed this board and the 3870K in the HTPC with the preexisting components of: - 128GB OCZ Octane 6Gbps SSD (os) - 3TB Western Digital AV-GP HDD (recordings) - Ceton CableCard PCI-e tuner (4 tuners) - Hauppauge 2250 Clear QAM tuner (2 digital, 2 analog) - 4GB DDR 1333 memory DVR performance is consistent (I often record 4 things at the same time, I have recorded as many as 5 with a special hack installed, one can also credit the SilkStream technology on the HDD). You will need to install ALL of the latest Catalyst drivers and run a couple video setups before doing the cable card adviser on this configuration. Make sure your catalyst video driver is from the AMD site; not Microsoft; and that it is at least a 2012 date on the driver. Also your Windows 7 install must be activated when setting up cablecard. I did fully reinstall Win7 Home Premium 64 as part of the move and imported backup setting to maintain scheduled series. Although the market is limited; I will be acquiring a device to make use of the CIR port on the motherboard so I can power up with the remote.

Pros: I normally don't trust Biostar because of an issue I had with them a while back, but this time I was told to give them a second try and, frankly, I'm impressed. We installed it, powered it, it booted right up! Perfectly the 1st time. The CPU Latch isn't really cheap plastic like some other motherboards I've used in the past. The BIOS screen has mouse functionality, and it's smooth and easy to understand.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: I used this in a pretty standard build. one GTX 460 SE, a quad core AMD chip, 6GB of RAM 650W PSU. I don't overclock, so I can't speak to it's effectiveness in that type of situation. Aside from that, this board has been perfect.

Pros: Fires right up no problem, 4 RAM slots, USB 3.0, 6 Satas

Cons: Lack of USB ports. All the space above the DVI//VGA connections would have been an ideal spot of additional USBs.

Overall Review: Wish Newegg would updated some of the informations to reflect better of the product like the Audio channels. But that's not really a con though.