Biostar TH67XE Motherboard
On-Board Peripherals
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The Intel H67 chipset is a single-chip solution, and is also known as PCH (Platform Controller Hub). This chip supports two SATA-600 ports and four SATA-300 ports, but it doesn’t support RAID. The manufacturer decided to route one of the SATA-300 ports to the motherboard rear panel in order to give the product one eSATA-300 port. The other ports are located on the motherboard edge. A long dual-slot video card installed in the second PCI Express x16 slot may block the SATA ports.
Figure 4: SATA-300 (red) and SATA-600 (white) ports
This motherboard doesn’t come with ATA-133 or floppy disk ports.
This motherboard has 10 USB 2.0 ports, four soldered on the rear panel and six available through three headers located on the motherboard. It also has two USB 3.0 ports soldered at its rear panel, controlled by a NEC μPD720200F1 chip.
The TH67XE also has two FireWire (IEEE1394) ports, one soldered at the rear panel and one available through a header, controlled by a VIA VT6315N chip.
The portrayed motherboard comes with eight-channel audio, generated by the chipset using a Realtek ALC892 codec. Unfortunately Realtek doesn’t publish technical specifications for this codec at their website. The portrayed motherboard comes with an on-board optical SPDIF connector, and you can either install a coaxial SPDIF connector or route digital audio to your video card to have digital audio in the HDMI connector using the available “JSPDIFOUT1” header.
The analog audio jacks are independent, meaning that you won’t have to “kill” the “line in” or “mic in” jacks if you install an analog 7.1 analog speaker set.
The TH67XE motherboard has one Gigabit Ethernet port, controlled by a Realtek RTL8111E chip.
In Figure 5, you can see the motherboard rear panel, with keyboard PS/2 connector, four USB 2.0 ports, optical SPDIF output, DisplayPort connector, HDMI connector, DVI-D connector, VGA connector, eSATA-300 port, two USB 3.0 ports (blue ones), one Gigabit Ethernet port, and independent analog 7.1 audio outputs.
Figure 5: Motherboard rear panel
As you can see, this motherboard has four different kinds of video connectors, allowing you to connect it to any kind of HDTV or video monitor available on the market today.