Connectors and I/O

Totally Biostar equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. There are also practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. Biostar also equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with a debug display which is very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. It is quite common that the last PCI-Express x16 slot is also the expansion slot is the closest to the bottom edge of the board. That has the consequence that the connectors at this place aren't accessible anymore. The TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker is no exception in this case. On the other hand there is two slots of space between the first and the second full size PCI Express port. This means that an SLI setup will be very well ventilated.


Totally you'll find only three fan headers on the Biostar TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker which isn't much. Especially for a high-end system more fan headers will be needed. The absolute minimum in this case are four fan headers. One of the connectors is on the right side above the CPU and the other two can be found at the bottom edge of the board. On the other hand practical is the fact, that the fans rotation speed can be controled via the BIOS or via a software.


Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel Biostar equipped the TZ77XE4 T-Overclocker with two USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0 port, one eSATA 6 Gbps ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an analogue audio panel, an HDMI port, a VGA connector and a DisplayPort connector.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 8 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery	Page 9 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 3 - Layout	Page 10 - Super Pi / wPrime
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O	Page 11 - Games
Page 5 - BIOS	Page 12 - Overclocking
Page 6 - Test setup	Page 13 - Conclusion
Page 7 - Futuremark

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