That M.2-like port at the bottom is actually the audio circuitry, and the “heatsink” is just a fascia. Only the custom audio board will work in it, and Asus specifically prohibits using anything else, stating it could damage the board. The audio itself is a typical Asus-tweaked Realtek ALC1220 codec dubbed SupremeFX and sports an ESS Sabre 9023P DAC.
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It seems everyone is talking about AMD right now, but there are still a lot of people buying Intel processors, especially if you are building a machine purely for gaming. With all of these new X570 motherboards with the newest features it is kind of a bummer looking at Z390 boards that have been out for almost a year now. Well ASRock wants to help you out and has recently introduced their Z390 Phantom Gaming X motherboard.
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The Z390 ROG Maximus XI Apex is designed with high performance and overclocking in mind. With Enhanced Extreme Engine Digi+, dual ProCool 8-pin power connectors and optimized 2-DIMM memory-trace layout for DDR4 4800MHz+ overclocking support, the ROG Maximus XI Apex is truly an overclockers dream.
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With the MEG ACE MSI have taken another step by tying the two MOSFET heatsinks to the chipset heatsink too thanks to a long heat pipe that runs down the side of the DDR4 memory slots. It’s certainly a unique solution. We can’t recall any motherboard adopting the same solution.
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Equipped with a 14-phase VRM solution, a well-designed onboard cooling system, and triple M.2 slots, the MSI MEG X570 ACE is aiming to prove its worth in the enthusiast segment of the AM4 market.
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We check out this Crosshair VIII Formula with a Ryzen 7 3700X processor, AMD prepped the X570 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen Generation 3 processor. The new Formula has embedded liquid cooling blocks, 5 Gbps Ethernet and AX WIFI.
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Mentioned to be a new standard for the top of the line board which aims to eliminated the active fan cooling that is present to most X570s – the whole system is a heatsink that doesn’t only lean on performance and function but actually some sort of design and elegance for the most part of course.
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The ASUS PRIME X570-PRO features dual M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots, USB 3.2 connectivity, a 6-layer PCB, dual metal-shielded PCIe 4.0 slots, an attached I/O shield, RGB lighting, and much more! Is this the X570 board you need for your Ryzen 3000 series build? Read on to find out…
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So today we’ll be taking a look at the ASRock X570 Creator motherboard designed for content creators and high-end enthusiast users. This motherboard is insanely packed with a ton of features, and utilizes AMD’s X570 chipset supporting all AMD Ryzen 2nd and 3rd gen processors. As with all X570 motherboards, it comes with the new PCIE 4.0 as standard offering better performance.
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The board features full RGB support integrated into it’s armored surface with active cooling provided for the X570 chipset integrated into the hybrid chipset / M.2 device overlay. Further, ASRock integrated PCIe 4.0 slot support into the board’s dual PCIe x16 slots for support of the latest in graphics technologies.
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