We received our sample of the Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi as part of the press kit that AMD delivered for the launch of Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X CPUs. As we expected, the Crosshair VII Hero is a high end motherboard that is loaded with overclocking features and while it looks and feels really solid, our initial testing suggested that performance was nothing special.
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We review our second X470 board from Gigabyte, the X470 Aorus Gaming Ultra. You can consider this board as a very affordable one, priced in the €139,- (similar in USD) you get the benefits from the X470, and overall a very nicely built motherboard really. X470 offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen Gen2 processor.
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MSI has announced five different motherboards for their X470 line up designed for different kinds of gamers and PC enthusiasts. The MSI X470 Gaming Plus is the most affordable motherboard in the line-up and they sent this to us to check out. What’s in the box? The front of the box has the typical MSI…
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While many people have focused on H370 motherboards, people tend to overlook the lower cost B360 motherboards. Today we will look at GIGABYTE’s top of the line B360 motherboard the B360 Aorus Gaming 3 WIFI, which is designed to provide basic features for gamers on a budget.
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Not so long time ago we could see first gaming motherboards under the SuperO logo and each one motherboard which arrives at our redaction is better. I hope that also the C9X299-PG300 will surprise us with something exceptional. Actually, I know it will but you have to read this review to find out what is so special in the SuperO C9X299-PG300.
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This £175 board ships with a healthy feature set, including an M.2 heatsink, a further M.2 slot on the back, 12 edge LEDs for the oh-so-obligatory RGB, high-quality audio, Gigabit LAN, 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2, and a PCIe x16 slot. Getting all of these on to the form factor is no easy task, but after having had a play around with it for the last couple of days, Asus has done a reasonable job.
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The Gaming Pro Carbon AC has been MSI’s top dog for the mid-range across a range of AMD and Intel sockets over the last few years. You can usually expect a smattering of premium features, but with a much lower price tag than the all-singing, all-dancing models that typically retail for over £200.
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The MSI B360 Gaming Plus is poised to be an affordable motherboard packed with features. The color-scheme of the motherboard is black with an aggressive zig-zag line pattern in red. Utilizing the B360 chipset allows MSI to avoid the complications and additional costs of the Z370 chipset while packing in a lot of goodies most people want and expect on socket LGA 1151!
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Affordable and Extreme are not two words you often find in the description of any computer part at the same time. ASRock has done just that. Part of ASRock’s Extreme level line-up, the Z370 Killer SLI brings everything an enthusiast needs down to a price point anyone can afford. A High-Density Sapphire Black Glass Fabric PCB covered with premium components…
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Now, whether or not you take that to mean Intel is going to release a 300W CPU, or if they are saying it is designed to handle an overclocked Skylake-X CPU, the VRM could handle 300W if you theoretically needed it to. Now, the motherboard also carries some more unique features such as a 10Gbit NIC, and it has a few interesting features.
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