With the Z390 chipset, the MEG Z390 ACE as an ATX board supports the eighth and ninth generation Intel core processors (Coffee Lake-S Refresh). Native USB 3.1 support is already on board, so other additional chips can be omitted. The motherboard offers three PCIe x16 slots, but only one of them is connected to the chipset with all 16 lanes, while the other two are eight and eight respectively.
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That processor, however, is more power-hungry than its predecessors and motherboard vendors have necessarily responded with higher-end power circuitry. MSI’s Enthusiast Gaming (MEG) ACE motherboard crystallises this approach with 12 phases purely aimed at powering all eight cores with overclocking.
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The MSI MEG Z390 Godlike is one of the most expensive motherboards on the market. It’ll set you back $599 in the US and £545 in the UK, which is a vast amount of cash to spend on a motherboard. It’s also more than its key rival costs – the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme is around $50 and £45 cheaper. Can this board possibly justify an even higher price than one of our current favourites?
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The Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Extreme is one of the most expensive motherboards that you can buy for an Intel Z390 system. It’ll set you back a vast $550 in the US and £500 in the UK – which makes it more expensive than many of the processors, GPUs and other components that you may end up installing into a build. Can it possibly be worth so much? Read our Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme review to find out.
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The new ASRock Rack EPC621D4I-2M motherboard we are reviewing here is a truly unique product. Fitting in a small mITX form factor, this platform suited for servers with short depth requirements. Most motherboards in this class would use something along the lines of an Intel Xeon E-2100, Intel Xeon D or Atom CPU. Instead, ASRock Rack fits a massive socket LGA3647 for the Intel Xeon Scalable family.
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In this review we’ll be looking at one of the Apex predators when it comes to overclocking who is docile out of the box and can unleash the fury when it is time to shine. The ASUS Republic of Gamers Maximus XI APEX is the latest version of APEX motherboards designed to be the top of the line when it comes to performance potential.
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The board sports an 11-phase power array with five doubled phases (10 if we’re feeling generous) dealing with the CPU and one for the integrated graphics. The heatsinks aren’t heat pipe-linked to even-out the heat load, but they’re reasonably substantial.
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We have tested and overclocked the AMD Socket AM4 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 5 2400G processor equipped with an integrated AMD Radeon Vega GPU. In the following AMD AM4 motherboard test we explain the features of the ASRock X470 Gaming K4 Fatal1ty motherboard, show a 360 degree view and give some UEFI tips.
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ASRock does an excellent job of tweaking its design to shave money off its budget-priced X399 board, delivering an adequately equipped and modestly performing motherboard. Though not quite on-par with typical X399 offerings, this interpretation of the chipset may force others to lower the cost of entry into AMD’s HEDT space.
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As the name would suggest, the ASUS TUF Z390-Pro Gaming is part of the TUF Gaming Alliance, a collaboration spearheaded by ASUS to produce a family of hardware with a common visual theme and exceptional quality and durability. Now, if someone had tried to sell me, sight unseen, on a black/gray and yellow color scheme with digital cameo accents, I would have had trouble taking them seriously.
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