BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z87X 3D Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by stefan @ 2013-07-12

Meet the Hi-Fi Z87X 3D board from BIOSTAR, which was designed to be affordable and succeeds to deliver good performances on the LGA1150 socket. Thanks to the extra attention that they gave to the audio interface, we will obtain better fidelity and in order to have special effects, the board is supplied with Sound Blaster Cinema and THX TruStudioPro applications, free of charge.

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A Closer Look Part III

The Z87 chipset is covered by a small themed heatsink:

 

 

 

Near the 4 memory slots we have the 24-pin ATX power connector:

 

 

 

Also, in the vicinity of the chipset, we have a Fintek F75308 HWM IC:

 

 

 

On the sides of the memory slots we will spot some additional fan headers:

 

 

 

 

The VRM heatsinks have small dimensions and do not feature any heatpipes. In the back of the left VRM component we will also find the 8-pin ATX CPU Power connector:

 

 

 

 

The Rear Panel connectors are the following:

 

-4x USB 2.0 ports

-PS/2 mouse/keyboard combo port

-DVI-D and VGA connectors

-HDMI

-LAN

-Audio Ports

 

 

 

When the system is powered on, a LED light will also come out of the Realtek ALC898 CODEC casing:

 

 

 

 

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