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We’ve previously reviewed motherboards based on AMD’s 880 and 890 chips,
and now the time has come to take a look at 870, which, as its name
suggests, presents us with the weakest variant of AMD’s new generation
chip. Biostar’s TA870+ motherboard uses the SB850 southbridge in
conjunction with this chip, therefore integrating native 6 Gbps support,
but (as we know from previous tests) has no USB 3.0 ports. Biostar
decided not to include them via a separate controller, which helped
retain the price on an acceptably low level. The 870 chip itself
contains no graphics core, and its consumption should be around 13 W…
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