The gaming line is still under the Fatal1ty naming scheme, featuring a vibrant red motif, and at the top of that stack is the $390 ASRock Fatal1ty X299 Professional Gaming i9 motherboard. It touts a 13 phase power delivery, SLI and Crossfire capabilities, and the latest connectivity.
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AMD’s Threadripper 1920X offers a great price point for a beefy 12 cores and 24 threads, and while you lose four cores compared to the high end Threadripper 1950X, it comes at a $200 savings. That’s great news if you are seeking unrestrained connectivity, competitive performance in lightly threaded productivity applications, and superior performance per dollar in multi-threaded workloads.
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The Core i9-7960X offers the best performance from a 16-core processor in both lightly-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Expect to pay for the privilege of owning one, though. Moreover, thermal challenges dictate that expensive add-ons like custom water-cooling loops are a requirement, particularly if you’re hoping to overclock.
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The First Asus Rampage Extreme was released in 2008 for the first Core 2 Duo/Quad processors and brought the very best of every category to that platform, and each generation after Asus has done the same. Five major generations later, we get the ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme for Intel’s X299 ecosystem. Following Tradition, this Rampage Extreme has the very…
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The buzz since Intel announced it was bringing an 18-core CPU to the consumer market has been palpable: users are anticipating this to be Intel’s best performing processor, and want to see it up against the 16-core AMD Threadripper (even at twice the cost). Intel is the incumbent: it has the legacy, the deep claws in software optimization, and the R&D clout to crush the red rival.
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Finally AMD is right back into the thick of a market it has been noncompetitive in for over a decade, the high end desktop. This means we have new high end feature packed motherboards to drool over. The first of which we have on hand here today, The Asus Prime X399-A.
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The ‘Gaming Pro Carbon AC’ has become MSI’s defacto top-end motherboard in its main consumer line for the past couple of generations, mirrored with the XPower Gaming for overclockers. The slight change in MSI’s lineup over the last few years, from their trio of Gaming, MPower and XPower lines, to this, has been subtle – most noticeable due to the lack of an MPower if I’m brutally honest.
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Appreciating the high-level similarity between chipsets – massive socket, eight DIMM slots, heaps of M.2 and storage in general – there is little reason to reinvent the wheel. In fact, we’re comfortable in saying that Aorus takes the same floor plan for this TR4 board, but that’s no bad thing.
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We have our first dual LGA3647 review motherboard from Tyan in the lab today with the Tyan Tempest CX S7106. Our motherboard is a 1Gbe network version or the S7106GM2NR using the C621 chipset. The GM2NR-L2 version uses 10Gbe network and C622 chipset which we know many of our readers will be interested in.
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ASRock’s X399 Taichi was the first X399 motherboard we took a look at, and it not only performed well, but it was also loaded with quality components. ASRock’s take on the X399 platform is interesting, to say the least. They are using high-quality parts, implementing solid platform features, but not adding in too many aesthetic features.
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