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The Maximus Formula has been the go-to enthusiast platform for years. Living between the Hero, one of the best gaming platforms, and Extreme, the top-tier ROG board is no easy task. Still, the Z690 Formula manages quite well, offering legit connectivity from Thunderbolt 4 to USB 3.2 Gen2x2, 10Gbe with the help of Marvell AQC chipset and top-of-the-line audio with the new Realtek ALC4082.
Read more @ TweakTown
Last week widespread reports of melting MOSFETs on Asus’ Z690 Hero motherboards emerged across various social media platforms, with pictures of motherboards that met a fiery fate spurring a bit of investigation from the enthusiast community. We followed up with Asus to learn more, and the company acknowledged the issues to Tom’s Hardware (below) and provided a full statement on the underlying causes. The company is also beginning a replacement program for impacted users.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
Performance on the Z690 Tomahawk ended up average overall among the other boards we tested. While all tests were very close in either direction, the Procyon tests showed the most significant departure from average, matching the slower DDR4 boards more closely than their DDR5 counterparts. Gaming results were on par, if not marginally faster, than the rest so we’re in good shape there.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
Compact motherboards are getting more and more popular each year. When everything can be integrated into the motherboard, then we can save space and build a smaller and cooler PC for our daily tasks without sacrificing performance. This is what Biostar thought about when designing the B550M-Silver motherboard. The BIOSTAR B550M-Silver is one of its less-expensive gaming motherboard that comes in a micro ATX format, and promises a great gaming experience. So what else can we expect?
Read more @ FunkyKit
The ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero is supplied in a box with a slightly updated design of the previous models. On the front side you can see the name of the board, some logos of the component manufacturers and the technologies used, as well as the image of the board.
The package is not very large – it includes a user manual, a set of branded stickers, a card with information about the ROG series, a USB flash drive with drivers, a fabric logo keychain, a metal holder for a video card, a pair of adapters for RGB devices, four SATA cables and screws for fixing M.2 drives.
Read more @ i2Hard (Russian)
This motherboard has the most accessories I’ve ever seen shipped with a board before. We have our manuals, six SATA cables, ARGB splitter, RGB extension cable, fan splitter cables, ROG fan controller, ROG DIMM.2 module, ROG Clavis DAC, WiFi Antenna, Q-connector, ROG keychain, ROG screwdriver, ROG stickers, ROG USB flash drive (drivers included), ROG thank you card, ROG case badge, and M.2 screws.
Read more @ ThinkComputers
Networking connectivity includes Wi-Fi 63 with the Intel AX210 chipset; LAN is powered by the Marvell AQC113C 10Gbe, supporting the multi-gig operation. USB 3.2 is supported throughout the board with an external port on the rear I/O and internally with headers. The rear I/O includes a Gen2x2 and five Gen2 ports in red and another four Gen 1 ports in blue. Audio is pushed through the now-aging ALC1220 chipset from Realtek, but GIGABYTE does include the ESS 9118 DAC.
Read more @ TweakTown
The use of the hot AMD X570 chipset in motherboards for the AMD AM4 platform is reflected in their overall design, in which manufacturers use active cooling of the chipset. However, now on the market you can find motherboards based on the updated AMD X570S chipset (the name still uses AMD X570), which has lower power consumption and for which, as a result, the use of passive cooling systems is sufficient. These include the ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING WIFI II motherboard, which, as the name suggests, is part of the ROG STRIX gaming series and offers users very good features.
Read more @ i2Hard (Russian)
But leaving aside the non-enlightenment. The most interesting thing about this board is possibly the type of memory it uses, I am talking about the well-known DDR4 memory. For this, the Tomahawk has 4 slots that support up to 128Gb in total and that support speeds of up to 5200MHz with overclock . Although, as you already know, depending on the memory that is installed, this speed can be very different.
Read more @ NewEsc (Spanish)
MSI MEG X570S Ace Max, belongs to MSI’s flagship series motherboard. What is more interesting is that it is positioned in MSI’s X570S series, but its essence is the X570 chipset. The most obvious difference is that the X570S series chipset uses a fanless The heat dissipation scheme eliminates the problem of noise generation and dust accumulation of the fan. As for other parameter configurations, let us take a look at it next.
Read more @ Chiphell (Chinese)