We recently took a look at GIGABYTE’s AORUS Gaming 7 for the Z370 platform, and today we will look at its little brother, the Z370 AORUS Gaming 5. The Gaming 5 has fewer features than the Gaming 7 but also costs about $30 less. Saying it has fewer features isn’t the whole story though, as the Gaming 7 has two Gbit NICs, the Gaming 5 drops one of those for a WIFI controller.
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There are several additional features that warrant the price hike but also mean that a successor to the awesome Gaming 5 is perhaps a little unlikely too. Thankfully, those features mean that while in name we’re looking at a successor to the Z270N-WiFi, the Z370N-WiFi is much more capable.
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GIGABYTE’s X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO is GIGABYTE’s answer to Intel’s HCC (12+ core) CPUs, which pull over 200 with ease. The new CPUs, which were released months after Intel’s ten core and below X299 HEDT processors, have much higher power requirements than their predecessors.
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The only consumer Mini-ITX motherboard for LGA 2066 becomes our only choice for these builds. Users who are certain that they have sufficient airflow over the voltage regulator will be very pleased with its overclocking capabilities, and those less certain should add a monitoring device.
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The SLI Plus range of MSI motherboards is a brand that aims for a low-cost price point, but uses the overclocking chipset to aim for the entry level of performance-per-dollar while still retaining all the key chipset features as well as a number of aesthetics.
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With the disappointing absence of Asus in the HEDT micro-ATX arena since it canned its Rampage Gene a while back, we’ve had to rely on other manufacturers, and thankfully all have come up trumps over the last few years. Here we’re looking at MSI’s effort at a micro-ATX X299 board, and the X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC – to give it its full name – seems to be right on the money too.
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Equipped with support for the latest Intel 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs, the MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC looks set to dominate our benchmarks, much like many other Z370 motherboards have done recently. With support for high-speed DDR4 memory, Turbo M.2, Intel Optane, Lightning USB 3.1 gen2, Gaming LAN…
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Join us in a review of the hippest board of 2017, the Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme, yes, the Rampage is back. An enticing looking motherboard in a dark theme offering nice features, design and of course performance. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors.
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As with its less expensive Strix boards, Asus offers two variants of the Hero with the only difference being the inclusion of onboard 802.11ac Wi-Fi for £10 more. Our model is the Wi-Fi-less version, which retails for £260, so it’s definitely one of the pricier Z370 boards out there.
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The GIGABYTE AX370-Gaming 5 board features a matte black PCB with with a white armor overlay protecting the rear panel and audio components. In line with their AORUS Intel boards, GIGABYTE spread RGB LEDs throughout the board’s surface, configurable via the UEFI or the windows app.
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