Rather unexpected, details of Biostar's X58 have made their way online, thanks to Matbe, and we're surprised with how good this board looks. Biostar has recently had some fame thanks to its TPower I45 motherboards based on the P45 chipset, but it seems like they've taken things to the next level with the TPower X58.

Although Biostar has gone with a fairly clean design, all the features are there such as six memory slots, three x16 PCIe 2.0 slots as well as a single x1 PCIe and two PCI slots. Around the back the board has what appears to be two PS/2 ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, two eSATA ports, a FireWire port, dual Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1-channel audio with optical and coaxial S/PDIF out.

The board also has six SATA connectors, an IDE connector and even a floppy connector for those that care. Furthermore, it has headers for another four USB 2.0 ports and an additional FireWire port as well as power and reset buttons and a debug LED display. Biostar has also gone for heatpipe cooling for the chipset and the board should have 12-phase power regulation that puts it right up with the big boys in the motherboard market.

It really looks like Biostar has made good use of the ex Abit engineers now working for the company, as this board almost looks like it could've been made by Abit. We're hoping that this board will be a bit cheaper than the €300 price point most X58 boards seem to be hovering around at the moment, but we're going to have to wait a little bit longer to find out about that.

You can find a high-resolution picture of the board here.