Biostar Rolls Out TA970 Plus AMD Motherboard for Budget Buyers

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Low cost board for overclockers

Biostar this week released its TA970 Plus motherboard, its latest AMD socket AM3+ offering with AMD OverDrive and a feature called ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration), which is supposed to help with overclocking efforts. Built around AMD's 970 chipset, the board supports AMD six-core and eight-core socket AM3 processors, including the AMD FX, Phenom II, and Athlon II lines.
It's a full-size ATX motherboard with four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting up to 64GB of DDR3-2133 (OC) memory and an mSATA/mini PCI-E combo connector. It also has two PCI-E x16 2.0 slots (x16, x4), two PCI x1 2.0 slots, and two standard PCI slots, as well as five SATA 6Gbps connectors with support for RAID 0/1/1/10.
As for the overclocking features, here's Biostar's marketing pitch:
"To get every power advantage the TA970 Plus features the AMD OverDrive and the ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration) function. This allows power users to overclock their system by precisely calibrating the clock timings between the processor and RAM chips," Biostar says. "These timings are critical in maintaining system stability when overclocking, otherwise you will end up with a system that crashes often. As they say, 'Timing is Everything' and the TA970 Plus allows you to get it right."
Biostar also focused its efforts on onboard audio. According to Biostar, the board sports a noise-blocking multi-layer PCB layout for a cleaner signal to go along with a sampling rate of 192kHz/24-bit.
The company didn't mention a price, though Fudzilla seems to think it will sell for $79.
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