Biostar TA690G AM2

Installation

The board was easy to install, although the drivers for the chipset were 100mb + from the Biostar site which took a while to download. Using the driver CD takes seconds and you can click one button, grab a cup of brown and come back to your PC full installed and ready to work.

If you want to use both outputs out the back of the board (analogue and digital) you have to enable them in the BIOS, and when you start Windows, it asks for the additional driver which I’m yet to find, whether it be from AMD directly, or off the Biostar website. DVI or VGA work perfectly (not at the same time though), but we didn’t have chance to test the HDMI output.

You can assign up to 512 MB of RAM to the Xpress 1250 on board, and there is also an option to overclock the onboard GPU which was a pleasant surprise and may give the edge over the nVidia competition.

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