While the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20 looks nicely designed, small items (ranging from its manual to its firmware) need some final polish, making it a tough sell as a high-end enthusiast Z370 board.
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While the iGame Z370 Vulcan X V20 looks nicely designed, small items (ranging from its manual to its firmware) need some final polish, making it a tough sell as a high-end enthusiast Z370 board.
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The X299 Extreme4 is a fine value for, say, pairing a PCIe x16 four-way M.2 adapter with a single graphics card. The price could also entice prosumers seeking to go from a six-core to an eight-core CPU. But the board’s restrictive slot configuration limits its appeal to niche cases.
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The MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium is marketed as a top of the range ATX offering and currently stands as MSI’s flagship AM4 socket motherboard. The XPower branding over the years has been heavily associated with overclocking and enthusiast level performance, but due to a change in the direction MSI in terms of marketing, the XPowerbranding now correlates with gaming as well.
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The first B360 board I got my hands on is the Colorful C.B360M-HD Deluxe V20. Colorful Group is a China-based manufacturer of all manner of consumer electronics, from ATX power supplies to hi-fi players. The company is best known for their graphics cards and, of course, their motherboards. To put the Colorful C.B360M-HD Deluxe V20 in context, I first need to briefly run through some of the changes to the B360 chipset from Z370.
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The Prime Z370-A supports keeping all three of its x16-length slots active, even when hosting two M.2 drives, which should be seen as a significant benefit by anyone who might ever consider installing two M.2 drives. Sharing problems are still present but lessened, as the second M.2 slot gets only two PCIe lanes until the user goes into firmware and sets the slot to x4 mode, which disables two of the SATA ports.
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The choice fell on an ASRock X399 Taichi. On the one hand, the purchase price tends towards the lower end of the price range of Threadripper motherboards and, on the other hand, ASRock has built a good reputation on Intel with the Taichi series in terms of price / performance and overclocking suitability.
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While many enthusiasts want the latest, greatest, bleeding edge in features, that often extends into unproven territory. If you are willing to take some risks, that’s fine, but many builders want one thing: a build that lasts and never gives them problems. To that end, Gigabytes Ultra Durable line is built with one thing in mind. Lasting Quality. The top…
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With the ASRock AB350 Gaming K4, as the name seems to imply, ASRock wants it two ways: a competitive gaming motherboard in the B350 chipset space. No idea why it is called the ‘AB350’, that’s just something ASRock seems to do, but the goal of the board here is to target the gaming crowd.
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The B360M comes equipped with a mATX form factor. However, it still packs in many of the features we’ve come to expect from the more expensive Z370 motherboards from MSI. This includes dual M.2 mounts with support for NVMe and Optane. You’ll find Tubo USB 2.1, DDR4 Boost, Gaming LAN, and premium audio hardware.
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For those unaware, the new Intel B360 chipset is a cut-down version of the Intel Z370 chipset and is aimed squarely at those wanting basic Coffee Lake features, minus the overclocking potential and at a lower price-tag. So where would a ROG motherboard fit into this criteria?
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