AMD’s four-core eight-thread Ryzen 5 3400G comes packing AMD’s Zen+ processing cores paired with AMD’s RX Vega integrated graphics engine, a combo that’s surely to land among the list of best CPUs for gaming because it can push playable framerates for low-resolution gaming if you’re willing to make the trade-off of lower quality settings.
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The Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming motherboard was a decent board for its day, but it had some room for improvement. Asus has tried to renovate that room with the ROG Strix B450-F Gaming board, which brings a few feature enhancements including support for AMD’s StoreMI software storage acceleration technology, which intelligently moves hard drive data to an SSD, and an enhanced layout.
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For one, the ASRock TRX40 Taichi featuring a 16-phase VRM with powerful 90 A power stages and a massive VRM heatsink with active cooling. The ASRock TRX40 Taichi also features the same modernized features and premium build quality I have praised since the X570 Taichi launched—from the integrated rear I/O shield to the 2.5 Gb/s LAN or intricate cog and gear motif.
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The BIOS meanwhile, is standard Asus. That translates to smooth navigation, decent fan control, and a solid array of tweaking options. By default, the small chipset fan is always on, but those who value absolute quietness can simply drag the Q-Fan curve to the right. Setting it to enable at, say, 80°C ensures that it remains off at all times, at the expense of raised heat around the chipset section.
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Plumbing in our usual settings of 4.35GHz and 1.325V vcore sadly saw our system freeze under load, which was mildly concerning, but thankfully heading to the EFI and applying a modest amount of loadline calibration solved the problem and the system passed our stress test as well as a full run of benchmarks without a hitch.
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Gigabyte’s TRX40 Aorus Xtreme is undeniably an insane motherboard that’s dripping with features, but at over £800, it’s not exactly affordable and even if you’re in the market for CPUs costing upwards of £1,200, you might think twice about splashing out when there are alternatives that will save you £300.
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MSI’s Creator TRX40 may be the best sTRX4 board for creative types, depending on whether you need a second graphics card or its included quad-M.2 adapter. Assuming you don’t need both, you’ll still pay handsomely for the privilege.
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We’ve finally got some more affordable TRX40 chipset motherboards to show you this month and while they’ll still not leave you with much change from £500, they are significantly cheaper than those we’ve looked at so far. First out of the blocks is the Asus ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming, which costs £480, but appears to sport many of the same features included with the more expensive Zenith II Extreme.
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The ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming motherboard features a matte black PCB with the redesigned ROG overlay scheme featuring a raindrop word pattern across the chipset cover. The board’s ATX form factor provides more than enough surface area to house the integrated components, as well as giving the board compatibility with most available gamer-friendly enclosures.
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Today we are looking at the ASUS X570 ROG Crosshair VIII HERO Wi-Fi Edition. For those who are familiar with ASUS and its Republic of Gamers (ROG) series, it should be a little to no surprise to anyone that ASUS has put great care and thought into the ROG Crosshair VIII as one of the flagship X570 motherboards on the market. It isn’t even the most expensive one, which makes it all that much more appealing.
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