Review: Biostar TZ77XE4 T Overclocker - Ivy Bridge

Published by Marc Büchel on 09.05.12
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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 11 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery Page 12 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 3 - Layout Page 13 - UC Bench
Page 4 - Connectors and I/O Page 14 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 5 - BIOS Page 15 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 6 - Test setup Page 16 - Games
Page 7 - 3D Mark 11 Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - 3D Mark Vantage Page 18 - Performance Rating
Page 9 - 3D Mark 2001 SE Page 19 - Conclusion
Page 10 - PC Mark 7  



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