BIOSTAR TP45 HP - King of Budget P45's or not?

Brolloks · Aug 9, 2008

Inspired by the fantastic review by windwithme I picked up a BIOSTAR TP45 HP P45 board this morning and will see how it compares with the other P45 I had and it can get to 500FSB and above with my Q9650 and >600 Fsb with an E8400.

The board goes for just over $100 AMIR, so a really good fit for tight budget.

All others with this board please post your own experience here as well

@crilicM@n · Aug 9, 2008

Brolloks said:
Inspired by the fantastic review by windwithme I picked up a BIOSTAR TP45 HP P45 board this morning and will see how it compares with the other P45 I had and it can get to 500FSB and above with my Q9650 and >600 Fsb with an E8400.

The board goes for just over $100 AMIR, so a really good fit for tight budget.

All others with this board please post your own experience here as well

Surely will!!! Just have to wait 1 or 2 months for it to arrive here in Brazil....

Will go with TPower I45 + 2x2gb 1066 Gskill + E8400...

rdrash · Aug 9, 2008

bro...

I have the TP45 coming as well as the I45, I'm going to try these with my E8600s when it all arrives.....ofcourse my stuff will go cold very quickly so won't be too many air shots, just enough time to get familiar with bios and find some good settings to start at under the cold.

Brolloks · Aug 9, 2008

Takes way more v-core than the P5Q series to get to 450 FSb on the quad, I could get to 465 FSB, 470 FSB caused a reboot, might have to play more with the GTL ref voltages

Blazing fire · Aug 9, 2008

Is maximus 2 formula king or what?

Brolloks · Aug 9, 2008

Blazing fire said:
Is maximus 2 formula king or what?

The P5Q Deluxe (IMO) is still tops in the price class, Maximus II is a very close second

Brolloks · Aug 10, 2008

Worked it down to a v-core of 1.4 in CPUz and 1.36 under load, the board's v-droop is not bad at all. VTT is 1.20v and MCH is 1.4v

Blazing fire · Aug 10, 2008

Brolloks said:
The P5Q Deluxe (IMO) is still tops in the price class, Maximus II is a very close second

What about the absolute best?

Automiketic · Aug 10, 2008

have you played with i45 yet?

JonSimonzi · Aug 10, 2008

Every day it seems I read about you getting a new piece of hardware to test out Brolloks...

Dodgexander · Aug 10, 2008

JonSimonzi said:
Every day it seems I read about you getting a new piece of hardware to test out Brolloks...

Lol yeah! What kind of job do you have?????!!!!

The Watcher · Aug 11, 2008

What GTL % are you using? I'm trying to figure out what I should use for my setup. ABIT IP35-Pro + Q6600 G0.

Brolloks · Aug 11, 2008

For FSB btween 380-420 just use stock, for higher set it to 65%. 45nm use closer to 63% to improve stability

Blazing fire · Aug 12, 2008

Brolloks said:
The P5Q Deluxe (IMO) is still tops in the price class, Maximus II is a very close second

Blazing fire said:
What about the absolute best?

Brolloks said:
For FSB btween 380-420 just use stock, for higher set it to 65%. 45nm use closer to 63% to improve stability

So, what's the best?

flynismo · Aug 12, 2008

I've had the TP45 HP for about a month now, I love this board, for the most part. For $129, I don't see any other boards out there that can match it.

@crilicM@n · Aug 12, 2008

Take a look at this french site comparisson: http://www.overclex.net/hardware/257/30/cartes-meres/7-cartes-meres-P45

The p45 doesn't have the top speed benchmark, but that can be compensated with a higher fsb overclocking... I've choosen this mobo not just becouse the price, but becouse it's a consistently good clocker and has a nice onboard audio...

The Watcher · Aug 12, 2008

Brolloks said:
For FSB btween 380-420 just use stock, for higher set it to 65%. 45nm use closer to 63% to improve stability

Would going higher improve clocks? Now this % depends on the VID setting right? Can somebody explain the relationship between GTL % and VID? I am checking stability with this linpak variant-->http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=197835

Seems to run 10C hotter than anything out there. My goal is to ensure that the residues are the same or at least the same order of magnitude.

PS# I may be changing MBs soon. Would you recommend this Biostar board with an E8400? I'm shooting for balls-to-the-walls FSB. I've never breached 500FSB before, so anything above it would be a nice bonus. So can you do 600 FSB? Looks like a 4-phase VRM, so I don't know if it can handle your quad or not. The windwithme board seems to have G-Luxon caps everywhere but the VRM, so I'll probably avoid that one or recap it with CP caps.

@crilicM@n · Aug 24, 2008

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUzMCw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
another one here... It seems that the tpower likes good ram to cope...

Automiketic · Aug 24, 2008

i have a tpower with a quad and i have reached 500mhz fsb. still working on stability, but i dont think it is out of the question.

makaka · Aug 25, 2008

DFi P45 is the best , Biostar is good but the memory performance is pretty poor

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