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Biostar first with Nvidia nForce 750a board

by on06 March 2008
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The TPower N750

Biostar might not be one of the big boys in the motherboard market, but the company seems to have come up with a rather unusual motherboard design when it comes to its TPower N750 board, which is based on the Nvidia nForce 750a chipset.

This is the first nForce 750a motherboard we've seen crop up on a manufacturer's Website and it looks somewhat like a blast from the past with two rows of jumpers for switching between single x16 or dual x8 mode. The cooling looks like it has borrowed a bit from both DFI and the upcoming Foxconn boards that are on display at CeBIT, as the board is using some rather intricate heatpipe cooling with a fan attached to it.

The odd location of the memory slots also looks like something we would see on a DFI board and it might be that a few engineers have moved around and taken their ideas with them. At the back of the board you'll find two PS/2 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, an Ethernet connector, a DVI and D-sub connector, as well as audio jacks for the onboard 7.1-channel sound.

Further to this, the board has three headers for a further six USB 2.0 ports, six SATA ports and an IDE and floppy connector. It does of course have a pair of x16 PCIe slots, but it also has a single x1 slot and three PCI slots. There's also a power and reset button present on the board and there's a header for a parallel and serial port if you for some reason still use something that needs these ports.

Under the heatsink you'll find Nvidia's MCP78 and an N200 chipset. The motherboard should support Hybrid SLI, altough we'd guess this is limited to a single graphics card, as it's unlikely that Nvidia will allow this to work when you add a second graphics card. The motherboard layout leaves a fair bit to be desired, but hopefully this board should be quite affordable.

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Last modified on 06 March 2008
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