Motherboards/Intel S1150 by stefan @ 2013-07-12
Meet the Hi-Fi Z87X 3D board from BIOSTAR, which was designed to be affordable and succeeds to deliver good performances on the LGA1150 socket. Thanks to the extra attention that they gave to the audio interface, we will obtain better fidelity and in order to have special effects, the board is supplied with Sound Blaster Cinema and THX TruStudioPro applications, free of charge.
The BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z87X 3D motherboard has arrived in a medium-sized cardboard box, featuring a lot of logos which represent the supported technologies and product features:
As with the Z77 series, BIOSTAR have really concentrated on the audio CODEC fidelity and most of the related functions can be found on the back side of the box:
The motherboard along with its bundle is placed on separate layers. The documentation can be also found here:
Speaking of the bundle, we are receiving one I/O shield, a CrossFire connector, 4 SATA cables and one calibration microphone:
As documentation, we will receive the User’s Manual and a small leaflet explaining the usage of the audio software. A disk is also present with drivers and software:
The manual contains the necessary information to get the system built:
For additional protection, the manufacturer has wrapped the motherboard inside an anti-static bag:
The motherboard comes with a clean PCB design and features a black/blue color scheme:
On the upper side of the PCB, near the two split VRM components we will find the ISL6376 whch is an EAPP Hybrid Digital 6-Phase PWM controller:
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