A bevy of high-bandwidth interfaces could make the Z390 Designare the best choice for creative types, particularly when considering many of those builders won’t bother to tap into the Core i9-9900K’s limited overclocking capacity. It’s also reasonably priced for its extra features.
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Gigabyte has made arguably some of the most top-tier boards in both the mainstream and HEDT platforms of varying success and design over the years. Gigabyte has really stepped up their game on the recent chipset generation from what I’ve seen with some very overbuilt power circuits but carrying with that note some questionable product positioning as far as feature sets go.
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On that day Supermicro released four different C246 models onto the market including the X11SCA-W which we are taking a look at today. The Supermicro X11SCA-W has support for up to 64GB of ECC and non-ECC memory, eight SATA ports, dual M.2 and a single U.2 port. The goal here is for a good run-of-the-mill Xeon E motherboard.
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In this review I’ll be looking at the new EVGA Z390 FTW motherboard. Those of you familiar with the EVGA lineup will recognize that this board is a middle tier board and happens to be the first of the Z390 motherboards to be released.
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Well from looking at the initial boards announced for the Z390, one of the most exciting ITX boards was the Strix Z390-I Gaming from Asus and I was excited to see it come in. I’m curious what is different from the Z370 or the Z270 for the matter and to dive into Asus’s feature set and see if the Strix Z390-I Gaming covers all of the bases for a high-end gaming PC that will take up less space on your desk and be easy to pack up and take to events to play with your friends.
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Intel’s Core i9-9980XE offers flagship-class performance to a wide range of workloads thanks to 18 cores and aggressive Turbo Boost frequencies. You’ll pay dearly for the privilege of owning one, though. Expect to budget extra for a high-end motherboard, a capable water cooling loop, and an enthusiast-oriented power supply if you plan on overclocking.
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It has been over a year since Intel launched its Skylake-X processors and Basin Falls platform, with a handful of processors from six-core up to eighteen-core. In that time, Intel’s competition has gone through the roof in core count, PCIe lanes, power consumption. In order to compete, Intel has gone down a different route, with its refresh product stack focusing on frequency, cache updates, and an updated thermal interface. Today we are testing the top processor on that list, the Core i9-9980XE.
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The Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac is a motherboard in ITX format. Every generation we can see that ASRock is offering more on a smaller space. It may surprise us how much can fit onto 17x17cm square of PCB. I won’t tell you much more right now.
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Dual M.2 PCIe x4 – one is obvious, above the PCIe x16 slot, the other on the back – 5x USB 3.1 G2, ALC1220A audio, Intel GbE LAN, Intel 9560 802.11ac WiFi, 4x SATA ports, 4x fan-headers, and a strengthened video-card slot show just what can be done on a board measuring 17cmx17cm.
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Just like the Z390 AORUS Master, the Z390 AORUS XTREME falls under the AORUS Enthusiasts segment after the new product segregation. Products in the enthusiasts segment are tailored for enthusiasts who wants more performance out of their system. For this range, you can already expect for better features such as the power phase design, better components being used, more overclocking capabilities over the AORUS Gaming lineup.
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