Can I trust Biostar? (X370GTN)

[Gursel]

Hello, I have a Ryzen 5 1600 processor and I need a motherboard. I need it to be an Itx motherboard to fit in my case and I found a motherboard called “Biostar X370GTN”. I haven’t heard anything of them until I have researched for Itx AM4 motherboards. Can someone who have used or heard of this company help me on if I can trust to this product or not. Thanks.

[Headcase0]

I would say so, look at this review from level one techs. That being said, the Gigabyte GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI would be the better buy because it comes with wifi on board.

[Gursel]

2 minutes ago, Headcase0 said:

I would say so, look at this review from level one techs.

Well, thank you for your help.

[rio2]

I'm not familiar with their newer product, but I have a Biostar TH61-ITX from 2012 running as a second PC and it still works find today.

[Jon Jon]

Biostar burned me years ago with my old AMD Phenom II X4 965 build.

 

It started corrupting any data coming in via network.

 

Even with an expansion NIC installed, even with a Windows reinstall, for whatever reason I could NOT write data to my HDDs without it being instantly corrupted.

 

I had never seen that issue before, or since.

 

That's actually what prompted me to migrate to my current Core i5 3570 build on an AsRock motherboard. Same hardware on the new board, no issues since.

 

I'll never buy Biostar again

[Gursel]

Just now, Jon Jon said:

Biostar burned me years ago with my old AMD Phenom II X4 965 build.

 

It started corrupting any data coming in via network.

 

Even with an expansion NIC installed, even with a Windows reinstall, for whatever reason I could NOT write data to my HDDs without it being instantly corrupted.

 

I had never seen that issue before, or since.

 

That's actually what prompted me to migrate to my current Core i5 3570 build on an AsRock motherboard. Same hardware on the new board, no issues since.

 

I'll never buy Biostar again

Oh crap, I don’t know what to do now, I needed an Itx motherboard for my build with NZXT Manta and now I'm feeling like I need to do more research. Even though I heard some people are making positive comments on the brand on other forums and websites, I can't trust the brand, because even one single person complaining about the products are making me nervous about purchasing it. Thank you and I appreciate your help.

[rio2]

2 minutes ago, Gursel said:

Oh crap, I don’t know what to do now, I needed an Itx motherboard for my build with NZXT Manta and now I'm feeling like I need to do more research. Even though I heard some people are making positive comments on the brand on other forums and websites, I can't trust the brand, because even one single person complaining about the products are making me nervous about purchasing it. Thank you and I appreciate your help.

The ASROCK Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac is a nice AM4 ITX board with AC wireless, but it's a little more expensive than the biostar one. But if you're fine with B350 the GIGABYTE GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI should be cheaper than the ASROCK one.

[Hiitchy]

1 minute ago, Gursel said:

Oh crap, I don’t know what to do now, I needed an Itx motherboard for my build with NZXT Manta and now I'm feeling like I need to do more research. Even though I heard some people are making positive comments on the brand on other forums and websites, I can't trust the brand, because even one single person complaining about the products are making me nervous about purchasing it. Thank you and I appreciate your help.

Do more research, try to reach out to people who have similar or the same Biostar product you have. What I've usually done on sites like Amazon is ask questions about the product, and usually people who have bought it will answer pretty quickly. At least, that's been my experience with it. I think by now they have a pretty solid product despite the fact that I've usually shied away from them. Give it a try and see what happens.

[Jon Jon]

1 minute ago, Gursel said:

Oh crap, I don’t know what to do now, I needed an Itx motherboard for my build with NZXT Manta and now I'm feeling like I need to do more research. Even though I heard some people are making positive comments on the brand on other forums and websites, I can't trust the brand, because even one single person complaining about the products are making me nervous about purchasing it. Thank you and I appreciate your help.

Honestly, I stick with ASUS and ASRock for everything now.

 

I used Gigabyte for a few builds in the passed and felt meh about that.

 

My first gaming PC ran on a high end MSI board that started giving me grief after a while.

 

Granted, those instances are from 5-10 years ago, including the Biostar issue I had.

 

I can say that my ASRock board has been rock solid for the last 5 years, and that's with me maxing out the RAM slots and using 3 of the expansion ports (my R9 380, a PCI ASUS Xonar Essense ST Sound Card, and an Elgato HD60Pro in the PCI-E 1x slot).

[Gursel]

39 minutes ago, kukrimate said:

The ASROCK Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac is a nice AM4 ITX board with AC wireless, but it's a little more expensive than the biostar one. But if you're fine with B350 the GIGABYTE GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI should be cheaper than the ASROCK one.

I do not have Gigabyte GA-AB350N in my country, I saw it and I was thinking to ship it from US, then I realized that I won't have the warranity. I also noticed that AS-Rock X370 listed but as you said it is more expensive than the others. I will dig deeper and list all the options that I have, thank you for your help.

[Patrick3D]

I've used boards from all of the manufacturers, read reviews for whichever specific board you are considering. Particularly with Ryzen there have been BIOS issues, make sure the board vendor is responding quickly with BIOS updates to resolve issues. With ITX you want to pay attention to reports of heat issues and select a board that has all of the ports/features that you desire.

As for BIOSTAR, my last experience with them was for an AMD FX based system. The board was very thin and flexed easily. It worked perfectly but I had to be careful to avoid flexing the board too much when installing cables and a heatsink. Regardless of vendor they all sell the occasional lemon. The last "bad" board I got came from MSI and was an FM3+ board that had bad memory sockets. ASRock, Asus, and Gigabyte have been the most reliable in my experience. I'm currently building a system with an MSI board (Mortar Arctic B350M, MATX.) My other 2 (older) AMD systems right now are running ASRock boards.

[Zando_]

You can. I think @Damascus has one, and it's pretty good. 

[Damascus]

I would get the asrock board, the Gigabyte ones throttle.