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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There’s plenty to get excited about here, though, with two large heatsinks for the Hero’s own pair of M.2 ports plus plenty of overclocking and testing tools with power and reset buttons as well as an LED POST code display on the PCB, not forgetting also USB BIOS Flashback and CMOS clear buttons on the rear I/O panel.
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We would like to introduce you to the ASUS ROG Maximus XI Extreme. ASUS and their Maximus series of boards have been synonymous with gamers, overclockers and overall enthusiasts over the many years since ROG or Republic of Gamers came to be.
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The VRM on the C9Z390-PGW might only have six phases, but it was able to handle our overclock to 5.2GHz, we still recommend cooling fan pointed at the VRM. The six-phase VRM is capable of supporting the OC because of its quality level. Supermicro is also using the more expensive Texas Instruments re-drivers for USB 3.1 ports. They didn’t cut corners where they could have.
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Intel’s Z390 is a bit of an oddity on the PC world. While not really a full generational leap it does supplant Z370 as the flagship chipset for Intel’s 9th generation launch. Since ASUS never really got around to launching its flagship ‘Extreme’ product position on the Z370 platform, it’s making up for lost time now with Z390, the true…
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