About a month ago we reported about how Biostar had silently published a new motherboard at its website, Biostar TF560 A2+. This board was claimed to be Socket AM2+ compatible, which would then mean it was the first of its kind. We assumed it was because of the upcoming Computex event, but since then we haven’t heard from Biostar, that is until now. Biostar has namely launched the world’s first Socket AM2+ motherboard; Biostar TF560 A2+. The board is based on the nForce 560+ chipset, which in turn brings a lot of interesting features.
MediaShield™ Storage
Suite of features that safeguards your most important digital media assets; always reliable, scalable, and accessible. Includes RAID and SATA drive support.
Multiple Disk Setup
Through a simple wizard-based interface, you can effortlessly set up your drives for better data protection, faster disk access or maximum storage capacity. MediaShield automatically selects RAID 0, 1, 0+1 or 5 configuration according to your needs. Advanced users can access RAID options directly.
DiskAlert System
The event of a disk failure, MediaShield users see an image that highlights which disk has failed to make it easier to identify, replace, and recover.
RAID Morphing
MediaShield allows users to change their current RAID set-up to another configuration in a one-step process called morphing. This eliminates the need to back up data and follow multiple steps in the process.
Bootable Multi-disk Array
MediaShield storage fully supports the use of multi-disk array for loading the operating system at power-up.
SATA 3Gb/s Drives
Take advantage of the latest SATA-2, 3Gb/s hard disk drives with full support for native and tagged command queuing and hot plug. Native command queuing provides higher disk performance in a multi-threaded environment by performing out-of-order disk accesses.
Native Gigabit Ethernet
The industry’s fastest Gigabit Ethernet performance eliminates network bottlenecks and improves overall system efficiency and performance.
FirstPacket™ technology
Be the ‘King of Ping’ with NVIDIA FirstPacket technology. Get the crystal-clear phone conversations and online gaming performance you expect. NVIDIA FirstPacket technology assures your game data, VoIP conversations, and large file transfers are delivered according to preferences set by you in an intuitive wizard.
nTune™ Utility
Now with access to more settings from this Windows-based utility. NVIDIA nTune performance manager allows automatic tuning for optimal performance and the ability to customize. Once configured, nTune automatically chooses the right system settings for the application that is being run based on your saved profiles and personal rules.
PCI Express x16
Designed to run with PCI Express bus architecture. This bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X, delivering 4 GB/s of upstream data transfer and 4GB/s of downstream data transfer.
High Definition Audio (HDA)
High definition audio brings consumer electronics quality sound to the PC delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HDA, systems can deliver 192 kHz/32-bit quality for eight channels, supporting new audio formats.
USB 2.0
A standard plug-and-play interface that provides easy-to-use connectivity for USB devices
