BIOSTAR is joining the 9-series launch party with its announcement of the latest installation to its flagship lineรย of motherboards known as the Hi-Fi series.
Joining the Hi-Fi product family is the latest Z97 board from Biostar, the BIOSTARรย Hi-Fi Z97WE.รย This ATX motherboard features Intel LGA1150 socket to support existing 4th-generation Core processors as well as the upcoming Haswell refresh and Broadwell chips in the LGA1150 package. The board will support up to 32GB of DDR3 memory.
The main highlight in this release aside from Biostars upgraded premium audio circuit and features is the dual-GIGABIT LAN implementation which can support up to 2Gbps network speeds via teaming.
More information from the official press release below:
BIOSTAR, maker of embedded/IPC solutions, graphics cards, and motherboards has introduced Intelรขโฌ™s next generation Haswell based motherboard, the BIOSTARรย Hi-Fi Z97WE. It comes with many BIOSTAR in-house features such as รขโฌลHi-Fiรขโฌย audio technology.
The BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z97WE is an ATX form factor board that features Intel socket 1150 support. It has 4 memory slots for up to 32GB of RAM. The on-board LAN controller also supports 10/100/1000/2000 with รขโฌลTeamingรขโฌย mode. The on-board HDMI supports 4K and 2K resolutions.
It includes the usual high-end motherboard features like USB 3.0, HDMI and PCI-E slots, as well as the newest PCIe development, theรย รขโฌลM.2รขโฌยform factor. The M.2 standard is the newest and smallest form factor implementation of the SATA Express interface (which provides support for PCI Express 3.0 and Serial ATA 3.0), with the addition of an internal USB 3.0 interface. It supports multiple functions for add-in cards, including the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, satellite navigation, near field communication (NFC), digital radio, Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), wireless WAN (WWAN), and solid-state drives (SSDs).
But being a BIOSTAR board, there is a premium set of features including the companyรขโฌ™s unique รขโฌลHi-Fiรขโฌย technology. All the BIOSTAR Hi-Fi series motherboardsรย areรย equipped with isolate circuit design and high quality components to ensure the best possible audio qualityconsistency.
The BIOSAR Hi-Fi Z97WEรย also features dual Gigabit LAN card functionality that takes networking and gaming to new levels. To achieve this, the Hi-Fi Z97WEรย has รขโฌลdual Gigabit LANรขโฌยรย connections on the board that allow simultaneous LAN connections. The primary advantage is the doubling of bandwidth which allows the network bandwidth of 1G to become that of 2G. It also allows for Full-duplex transmission. Two network cards can be simultaneously transmitted to upload and download at the same time. In addition, there is zero packet delay with two high-speed gigabit networks, giving super high data transmission efficiency. Another major advantage is รขโฌลLoad Balancingรขโฌย which allows users to attach both network adapters to a single network. It will therefore support the aggregation รขโฌลteamingรขโฌย function by merging the two connections to support multiple aggregation modes.
In addition, with BIOSTARรขโฌ™s dual Gigabit LAN connections you get network insurance. These boards come with two Gigabit Ethernet lightning protection circuits, there are cross-efficient in reducing the probability of damage from lightning or other power surge. So if one connection is disabled the other connection will automatically kick in.
Lastly, being based on the Intel Z97 chipset, the Hi-Fi Z97WE also comes with Intel SRT (Smart Response Technology), Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology), Intel Rapid Start Technology and Intel Smart Connect Technology all built into the system, ready to go.
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