The MEG X299 CREATION, as its name has already given away, is another halo product; part of the MEG line with top-shelf features and performance. The X299 chipset isn’t exactly new, but still a platform to be reckoned with. Featuring the Intel 2066 socket and designed for Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X, I will be pairing it up with a Core i9-7980XE for this review.
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The falcon utilizes its powerful wings to soar through the skies and lock down its prey. The AORUS Core takes inspiration from the falcon’s aerodynamic wings, incorporating a multi-layered design which features wing shaped contours and also resembles the falcon’s high-velocity ascension and dives through the skies.
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The heatsink proved to be very effective too, as our Samsung 970 Evo was 18°C warmer without it and a massive 29°C warmer sat flat on the motherboard with the horizontal heatsink removed, leaving the SSD stuck between the DIMM.2 module and memory.
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Both the ASUS ROG Strix Z390-I Gaming and the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac are around the $200 mark, which is a very popular enthusiast price point for small form factor high powered motherboards. Both motherboards also share similar features, including dual M.2 slots for storage and 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi modules. Nonetheless, there are differences between the two worth examining.
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ASRock’s Taichi series of motherboards has been hugely successful, offering up a lot of features, a solid VRM, and good aesthetics at a very reasonable price. The Z390 Taichi Ultimate features a 10Gbit NIC, which is one of its biggest advantages over the Taichi and even the Phantom Gaming 9. Let’s see what it has to offer.
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Much like the first gen counterparts, the 2500X is a quad core processor with simultaneous multi-threading while the 2300X is a straight forward quad core. The X processors usually have a higher thermal design power (TDP) than hypothetical non-X equivalents, allowing them to take advantage of AMDs Extreme Frequency Range technology for higher turbos for longer given sufficient cooling, although these are set at 65W, similar to non-X processors.
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Sitting at the middle of ASRock’s consumer motherboard line, the Extreme4 has long offered users a cheaper way to achieve a mild overclock from high-end processors. That same concept has applied whether we were talking about the 8700K, the 7900X, or even some of its AMD offerings.
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Today we take a look at one of the most expensive and well-endowed motherboards for the Z390 chipset; the GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Xtreme. The Xtreme nomenclature basically replaces the Gaming 9, which replaced the UD9, one of the most intense X58 motherboards ever on the market.
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The Z390 Aorus Xtreme bigs-up Intel’s little socket with the most advanced feature set imaginable. Yet despite its overclocking-friendly design, we ran into an overclocking configuration issue with HyperX Predator RGB DDR4-2933, memory that we switched to last year to contend with a memory configuration issue we saw on a different Gigabyte board.
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The heatsink design is above average for a board in this pricing area; both make good contact with the components underneath, are screwed in, and the larger, left-hand one is multi-stacked for maximum heat dispersal – it’s interesting to note that MSI has gone with a reflective, accented finish to amplify any RGB you may have in the system. It’s a shame that the Gaming Edge AC hasn’t been able to introduce an integrated I/O shield; the heatsink design is crying out for it.
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