Biostar TPower i55 Review
Introduction and Technical Specs
Published: 2nd September 2010 | Source: Biostar | Price: £111.59 |
Introduction
It's very easy when reviewing hardware to get your head turned by all the latest and greatest. Things bristling with monster technology, breaking world records and the bank.
Thankfully for you guys and gals, we're enthusiasts just like you. So whilst we all enjoy looking at the latest hardware, or the most expensive hardware, we don't ever look down our noses or ignore the most value conscious choices. We've all got bills to pay and rarely do you find yourself able to splurge extraordinary amount of money on the best. Most often we have to look down the price list a little to find something that wont leave you having to eat thermal paste for a month.
This brings us neatly to the Biostar I55. A motherboard that has been around for a little while now, happily plugging away at the value end of the P55 market.
As you should know though, the LGA1156 line of processors contains some real barn-burners so is the Biostar TPower I55 a great value choice, or is it just cheap?
Technical Specifications
Firstly let's grab the specifications from the Biostar website.
CPU SUPPORT | |
POWER DESIGN | |
MEMORY | |
EXPANSION-SLOTS | |
STORAGE | |
USB | |
IEEE 1394 | |
GbE | |
CODEC | |
REAR I/O | |
INTERNAL I/O | |
DIMENSION | |
OS SUPPORT | |
ACCESSORIES |
As you can see this really only lacks for the very latest features such as USB3.0 or SATA 6Gbps. It would be easy to leap up and berate such a last-gen feature set. The moment you notice the price, just north of a ton, you'll see that actually this is a feature-rich motherboard, rather than lacking one or two more 'enthusiast' technologies.
Most Recent Comments



Haha, I can't stop saying "Be sure to have t'fun with t'overclocker" in a Yorkshire accent.
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Oooo ya sneaky bugger ![]() ![]() Haha, I can't stop saying "Be sure to have t'fun with t'overclocker" in a Yorkshire accent. hahahaha ! |
Great review mr veebles as per usual


At first this seems like a great P55 board !
Al tho i personally don't like all these pre overclocking features, seems all the P55 boards have them now ...
this OC genie on my MSI P55-GD65 is a complete joke ! EDIT sorry i mean i just doesn't seem to work , all it does is BSOD lock...
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Right, I'll stop extracting the urine and read it now
OK fantastic review as ever lads, ta muchly
There were two things that had me in stitches.
Firstly this -
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And then this. I think the person who designed this is from Yorkshire. Down't t'pub for a pint of bitter and t'chip butty
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