BIOSTAR has confirmed that it will be releasing new BIOS updates for its 600 Series motherboards with support for 13th Gen Intel Core “Raptor Lake” processors.
These will be released “soon,” according to a press release and image.
Here’s a list of BIOSTAR motherboards that will be getting the update, which, not surprisingly, includes BIOSTAR’s flagship Z690 VALKYRIE motherboard:
- Z690 VALKYRIE
- Z690A VALKYRIE
- Z690GTA
- Z690A SILVER
- B660GTA
- B660GTQ
- B660GTN
- B660M-SILVER
- B660T-SILVER
- B660MX-E PRO
- B660MXC PRO
- B660MX-E
- B610MX-E
- H610MHP
- H610MH
Preparing for the imminent release of the latest Intel processors, BIOSTAR is already prepping up a BIOS update that will enable users to upgrade their 600 series motherboards directly to the latest processors. BIOSTAR has put a considerable amount of thought and work into the upcoming BIOS update, which promises seamless integration and flawless performance numbers that rival any other competitor in the market.
BIOSTAR has told users to “keep close attention to their social media to get the BIOS update as soon as it is available for the public.”
Source: BIOSTAR
Discussion (17 replies)
Join Discussion →Ugh. Just reading the name "Biostar" makes me cringe.
I have never before in my life used such pure unadulterated garbage as the motherboards from Biostar.
I would never again touch their products even with the proverbial 39.5ft pole.
I have used a few for budget builds, and they are still going after many years in service. I wouldn't build a high end build with them, but that's just me.
Our ITX case review rig uses a board that Dan reviewed and.... can confirm.
That's my sentiment based on the above board. It works. Overclocking (or any tuning whatsoever) is a roll of the dice, with features either missing or broken, and the RGB lighting is nearly impossible to control, due to the limitations in the BIOS and Biostars' software just straight up crashing the OS.
The one Biostar board I have used in recent memory (Haswell era, so maybe not that recent anymore), a MicroATX board was not even suitable for budget use.
I tried it because I needed a cheap motherboard in what was essentially a cheap Haswell Celeron based HTPC/streaming box hooked up to a TV.
So many of the basics just didn't work. PWM fan control was a big fail, CPU sleep states didn't work, etc. etc. After fighting with it for a week, I just gave up and returned it, and vowed to never buy Biostar again, even for budget stuff.
I actually had one awesome Biostar motherboard, using an nForce 2 chipset. I ran my Athlon XP "Barton" 3200+ in it. That was my very last 32-bit system and last single-core system. The last time I used it was in 2007 when my nForce 4 system with Opteron 165 crapped out. I brought it outta retirement to have a temp PC. It is NOT fun trying to do 3D rendering with 3DS Max (for a college course) on that thing. UT3 didn't run so well either. I didn't even bother trying Crysis. Luckily a few months later I built an X38 system with a Core 2 Duo "Conroe" (forgot model and speed). Anyways, that nForce 2 board was the only Biostar product I ever used, and pretty sure that whole system still works fine. Maybe I should fire it up and check.
Biostar vs ECS. Who can build it cheaper and crappier?
Forgot all about ECS. They were definitely lower tier.
was it them or Abit that had the neon green PCB's for their motherboards back in the Athalon 3200+ days. Single core 64 bit CPU POWA!!
I was a big Abit fan back in the day and used their boards quite a bit, but don't remember any neon green ones from them. ECS I never used due to their less mainstream offerings. DFI was always big on brights colors with their LAN party line.
Back in the day I was into DFI's LANParty series of boards with UV-reactive components cuz I used blacklights in my PCs.
Yeah, back then I was definitely an Abit fan, but I think I may have used ECS or Biostar back then as well, and I don't recall being as offended by the boards at that time.
Not sure if they went downhill, or if my expectations changed.
I had one as well paired with a Q6600 if I remember right. Was an awesome board.
Just for reference, this is the look we are talking about?
I ask, because I don't remember this at all. Maybe because I was always focused on performance first, and scoffed at aesthetics. I didn't even have my first case with a window until ~2015 or so, and only then because none of the cases I was shopping for came with a solid side anymore :p
Fry's always had Athlon XP's on sale with those ECS k7s5a (or something like that) cheap azz mobos. They worked, but talk about bargain basement. Still I remember you could get a mobo + cpu for like $150. I built a ton of those systems for people. I specifically remember the audio output on those things being horrible and picked up all kinds of electrical noise. Sound card required.
I feel like that was pretty much the case for 100% of motherboards until the mid to late 2000's
I used a discrete sound card in every system up until I finally pulled my venerable X-Fi Titanium HD out of my current build when I installed my 6900xt in October last year. Granted, for the last 8 years since I got my first Schiit USB DAC, I was only using it for the occasional line in recording work.
I haven't really relied on "on board" audio since the PC bleep-bloop days back before I got my first sound card (a Sound Blaster AWE32) in 1994.
That was probably the first PC part I ever bought after reading an online review :p