The Z490 Aqua comes equipped as a premium feature motherboard. The large integrated monoblock which cools both the CPU and the board’s power delivery, amd it now features a very cool OLED display. There is also integrated Thunderbolt 3, 10 gigabit Ethernet, as well as its large 16-phase power delivery.
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Today we’ll be taking a look at the B550 Extreme4. The Extreme4 series is well known for its great value and high performance. This is one of the reasons why it became a popular option for gamers over the years. The Extreme4 looks similar to other ASRock’s motherboards, like the Velocita or the Steel Legend, but they all have significant differences.
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The ASRock Rack TRX40D8-2N2T is something truly innovative. The ATX form factor board eschews conventional gaming ornamentation common of its AMD Ryzen Threadripper motherboard contemporaries. Instead, ASRock rack continues in the theme of its ASRock Rack X570D4I-2T and builds a server-focused platform around a high-performance AMD Threadripper chip. The result is surprisingly good for what it hopes to accomplish, a marriage of the best of the workstation with server features.
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Our recommendations for motherboards are based entirely on my personal and professional opinion. There are notably a large number of different motherboards across the AMD chipsets including B450, X570 and more recently, B550, so I selected my top four picks based on the four market segments.
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While NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 GPU works just fine with PCIe 3.0 slots, it’s best to grab a motherboard with a PCIe 4.0 slot to make the most of its graphical prowess. We’ve rounded up the best motherboards with PCIe 4.0 slots for both AMD and Intel processors.
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Specifically, we’ll be looking at the ASRock B550M-HDV ($80.99), Gigabyte’s B550M DS3H ($94.99), the MSI B550M Pro-VDH Wi-Fi ($109.99), and our costliest contender, the Asus Prime B550M K ($120.99). Compared to what we’ve looked at in the past on B550, these boards skip many of the accouterments we’re used to seeing, like RGB lighting, shrouds and heatsinks on some items, and premium power delivery.
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As we move into the final period of Q3 2020, there is a wide variety of Intel-based motherboards on the market, spearheaded by LGA1200 models for the current 10th generation Comet Lake processors. The latest LGA1200 socket has the usual variety of Intel chipsets, such as premium Z490 models with official support for the overclocking, down to the more mainstream chipsets such as H460 and B460.
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Modeled around the elegance and aerodynamic nature of a fast car with edgy lines, ASRock is no stranger to the ‘motherboard as a hypercar’ concept. The company used to run a line of ‘OC Formula’ high-end yellow motherboards with a number of high-end features for overclocking including OLED panels and a waterproof coating.
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The AQUA line from ASRock is the brand’s “halo” product. Featuring everything except the kitchen sink, including a full-coverage mono block for custom water cooling and even a limited run serial number. This limited production board was first introduced for X570, with a run of 999 motherboards. Now, ASRock is back at it with another 999 board run on Z490 with the ASRock Z490 AQUA.
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The Z490 Steel Legend motherboard comes all of ASRock’s renowned featured such as SuperAlloy, Dr.MOS,10 Phase Power Design, PCIE steel slots, 6 x SATA ports, 2 x Ultra M.2 slots for SSDs (with 2 full coverage M.2 heatsink). There’s also 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (Rear Type-A+C), 7 x USB 3.2 Gen1 (4Front, 2 Rear, 1 Front Type-C), 7.1 HD audio, and of course the Polychrome RGB, and well as Dragon 2.5 GB/s LAN.
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