BIOSTAR TA75A+ Ver. 5.x Pro Reviews

After playing with the Biostar TA75A+, we find it a mixed bag of results. The design is really good and efficient, and the color scheme offered is looking fantastically nice on an entry-level product, and a welcome surprise. However, with the early BIOS, and not being able to run 1866 MHz on our memories, our expectations were not met. For running an APU with a discrete VGA like a HD 6670, with an add-in audio card, and maybe a drive controller, this board makes a fantastic base for a custom HTPC, modded window et al included. I could imagine the board being a decent workhorse for specific applications like office/productivity/web browsing and of course as media PC, but the lack of a working 1866MHz divider with some pretty common memory is going to affect performance a fair bit when a discrete VGA is not added. For enthusiast gaming and overclocking you best look elsewhere.

The Biostar TA75A+ is an entry-level motherboard for the new A-Series CPUs from AMD, using the ATX form factor instead of the microATX one. It comes with only the basic options provided by the chipset, which are more than enough for the average user, since this chipset provides USB 3.0 and SATA-600 ports.