Reinforced slots, DIMM.2 socket, USB 3.1 sockets around the back, both HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, PS2 ports for keyboard and mouse should you still be living with 2001-era peripherals, dual LAN including the AQC108 5G LAN for those seriously bandwidth heavy needs and all the usual ASUS accoutrements such as RGB LED strip headers, dedicated water pump headers and even flow monitoring points
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One item deserves its own five minutes of fame: A break-out PCIe card that houses the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 WiFi module and antenna headers. This solution occupies a lone PCIe x1 slot and a USB 2.0 header on the board. We’d recommend populating it in the bottom x1 slot. If you’re using SLI or three dual-slot PCIe cards, you’re forced to put the card into the bottom x16 slot, which is less than ideal.
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MSI’s Gaming Pro Carbon lineup of motherboards are positioned to be the go-to motherboard for gamers and enthusiasts alike. If we ask people what makes a motherboard a gaming product we get a few answers depending on what gamers expect. Audio and networking are important, then we also get overclocking support, and even RGB LEDs as answers from some people when it comes to what they want in a motherboard for a gaming machine.
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For the launch, they sent over the Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon, one of their higher end boards and I’ve been testing with it. Today I want to check out what they have going on for features and see how it compares to the rest of the market. Is the Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon the board to get for your new build? Let’s find out.
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In this review I’ll be looking at the EVGA X299 Micro. This is a MicroATX motherboard based on the Intel X299 chipset and designed for the new LGA 2066 Core-X processor platform. If you couldn’t tell this is the replacement chipset for the previous X99 and promises to deliver more power for your high-end desktop needs.
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If you aren’t deep into the overclocking scene, the name Nick Shih might not mean anything to you, but if you poke around many of the CPU benchmarking record charts online you’ll often see the handle ‘nickshih’ on the front page. The Brainchild of ASRock’s OC Formula lineup, Nick knows what it takes to break records and ASRock brings that…
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We review the new ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming motherboard. At a price of €179, the newly designed TUF sits in the mainstream segment. It has the TUF styling, yet was made to be a bit more affordable. And that shows with its unusual yellow/orange striping. The motherboard has been fitted with the usual suspects, including a Gigabit based Ethernet jack and onboard you may house two M.2 SSDs.
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X299 motherboard VRMs received bad press after investigative research by professional overclocker der8auer demonstrated a tendency for them to run uncomfortably hot with overclocked Skylake-X CPUs. So much so that ASRock has pushed out an enhanced version of its X299 Taichi motherboard, the X299 Taichi XE, even though its X299 Taichi had been highly praised for its VRM and not implicated in the X299 VRM “scandal”.
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Our first look at MSI X299 offerings arrived in the form of a mid-range board from the Arsenal Gaming series, the Tomahawk Arctic. The Tomahawk line of motherboards, MSI says, have heavy plated heatsinks and “combative looks ready for anything”.
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The MSI Carbon range has long hit the sweet spot between price and feature set and we have the latest model in Z370 guise here for review today. If you’ve not read our MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Preview yet, for shame, then you can bring yourself up to speed by clicking those words, but for everyone else let’s find out if the MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC performs as well as its forebears.
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