Joined on 07/28/10
No issues
Pros: It Works. Theres really nothing to do but connect the board and turn it on. I'm running 16gb ram,128gb SSD and a 750gb HD. For video, one card is a ATI/AMD 6770 and the other a 4550 (needed that for 3rd monitor) Zelman Heat sink, Phenom II X4 965
Cons: It would have cost them another buck fifty to put a USB 3.0 header on. Printed manual sucks but the real manual is on CD
Overall Review: I too wish I had gotten the FEX board for the USB 3.0 header. Awhile back I built 11 PC for general use. They had MSI or Asus boards. within 6 months 7 of those died and I tried BioStar. So far none have failed (TA880GU3+) a year later
Up date to last post
Pros: It's a good Tablet while it works
Cons: As I said in a previous post we bought 6 of these. So far 2 have been RMA'd back to New Egg and two sent into Acer for repair. It is the same problem with all of them. They just stop charging and the battery goes dead. I'm pretty sure it is just a 10 cent charging chip that's gone bad. Too bad because these are nice tabs when they work
Overall Review: I'm waiting for the others to fail and send back to Acer. I'm hoping that they change the charging controller chip to a different one and it solves the problem for ever. These are nice tab's for our use. Since then we switched to Asus TF101 with no problems so far. Same price.
AMD does it with this one
Pros: I echo most of the rest of the reviews. No issues at all and runs everything I throw at it with little effort. Its a no brainer buy.
Cons: AMD's lack of PIC 3.0 support
Asus TF700
Pros: We have around 10 TF101's 3 TF300's 1 TF201 and 1 TF700 With Asus we have never had a failure. I must have sent back 6 Acers that didn't last a month. I'm surprised to hear so many bad comments. Even the TF101 is not slow and the rest with the targa3 are pretty fast. I think sometimes people try to compare tablets to PC speeds
Cons: The Audio is weak
Overall Review: It could be that we do not notice any slowness because we write our own apps / software. I doubt it the tablet that's slow but junk software people are using off the web. I've personally had 3 Asus Laptops over the years and have 1 TF300 and 1 TF201 prim. Never one problem. For laptop's or tablets I'll stay with ASUS
Great Board
Pros: Price and lots of standard features like on board USB3.0, Firewire,eSATA, Comm. Good heat sinks. Came with SLI and the Nvitia cables. Love the EUFI Bios
Cons: none so far
Overall Review: Had to flash the rom to support the AMD FX CPU. Not Biostars fault but no ePCI 3.0 (come on AMD) Running the AMD FX-6300 cpu I've never had a DOA Biostar board(KOW) yet. I've had dead Asus,MSI and Gigabyte ones
Great CPU
Pros: I'm not talking about gaming here. For the above average user using business software I doubt anyone could tell the difference in the AMD and i5 cpu's short of mostly meaningless benchmarks. I'm talking about real world use. I'd bet most gamers could not ether given equal video. For the money this is a great CPU.
Cons: The heat sink is junk but I guess the have to cut costs someplace. I use a big Zelman. Really now, who uses a stock heat sink anyway for a good build!
Overall Review: If I read the documentation correctly this CPU needs the 990 chip set to fully shine. I have read that you couldn't tell the difference between the Phenom II x4 965 and the FX-6300. This was mostly true on my 870 board. But with a 990 board the is a large difference. May its just my setup. Biostar TA990FEX, 16gig 1333 ram, (2) 128 scandisk SSD's, HIS 6770 AMD Video