Biostar TH67+ review

The TH67+ is Biostar’s microATX model in its Intel socket LGA1155 range. It’s fairly well supplied with connectors and expansion slots for its size, with four SATA2 connectors, two SATA3 connectors, a PCI slot, a PCI-E x1 slot and two PCI-E x16 slots, one of which only runs at x4. Four memory slots can take up to 16GB of RAM, which you can overclock to speeds of up to 2,000MHz in the motherboard’s UEFI (the new-style BIOS) settings. The UEFI interface isn’t as glossy as that of some motherboards, and all the main overclocking settings are crammed into a single cramped page, but we found everything we needed after a bit of exploration.

The motherboard’s back panel is seriously undersupplied with ports. There are just four USB ports, two of which are USB3, and a single PS/2 port. There are four USB headers on the motherboard so you can connect case ports or add blanking ports, but we’d have liked more ports built into the back panel. There are no eSATA or Firewire ports on the back, although eSATA can be added through a cheap blanking plate. On top of that, there are just three 3.5mm analogue stereo outputs. Beyond those and the usual VGA, DVI and HDMI video outputs there’s nothing else there.

The TH67+ looks like a decent proposition at first and performed well enough in our tests, with an Overall score of 170. However, we weren’t satisfied with its paltry selection of back panel ports. The TH67+ is by no means useless, but it costs the same as Asrock’s Best Buy winning H67M-GE/HT, which is significantly better and has faster performance.

We reviewed the early release version of this motherboard, which has been withdrawn and replaced with a practically-identical version that replaces the faulty SATA2 controller.