The Z370 Taichi shoots for the stars, covering its power delivery area with dual heatsinks connected via heat pipe, three high-speed M.2 slots, eight SATA ports, SLI/Crossfire support for gaming, as well as USB 3.1 ports on the rear panel and an additional header for front panel USB 3.1 connectivity.
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This gaming-centric board offers users a number of features which make it highly competitive in the small-form-factor overclocking space at $180. Despite the small size, the board includes Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, Intel-based Wi-Fi and LAN, USB 3.1 support, M.2 storage, and six SATA ports – a rarety on a small motherboard.
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Of course you will see also interesting thermal images and a 360 degree view as well as several benchmarks. Let’s take a look at where the strengths and weaknesses of the inexpensive ASRock H370 Pro4 motherboard may be. And although we are still running an ASRock X299M Extreme4 Intel LGA2066 competition, this ASRock H370 Pro4 Intel LGA1151 motherboard will also be in the draw.
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The ASRock AB350M Pro4 is based around AMD’s B350 chipset and built into the Micro ATX form factor. This board’s small dimensions as well as its price are deceptive as the ASRock AB350M Pro4 boasts many of the features and accommodations I would expect from a full fledged X470 board. Dual M.2 slots, AMD Quad CrossFire support, full overclocking support, 7.1 channel audio, and USB Type-C are just a few of these standout features on the ASRock AB350M Pro4.
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The ASRock X399 Professional Gaming is a motherboard that has been designed to entice advanced gamers. Even the nickname of the former well-known former esports player, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, appears along with the motherboard’s name to help with the marketing of the motherboard.
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The ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is a small, gaming-oriented Mini-ITX motherboard with a fairly decent set of capabilities, making it a great option for those of us looking to build a smaller system for gaming, no matter the Ryzen performance level you want. With onboard video outputs, this board is capable of pushing both AMD’s 2×00 APUs and the 2000-series CPUs, along with a single VGA or maybe a RAID card.
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These include the new 7.1 channel audio supporting Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 5, Polychrome Sync for RGB, Gigabit LAN, PCI-E steel slots, 2 x M.2 slots for PCI-E Gen3x4 SSDs, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (Rear Type-A+C), 6 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (2 Front, 4 Rear), supports triple monitors, as well as DDR4-3200+ OC and AMD CrossfireX.
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The X299M Extreme4’s I/O panel has a gap where you’d expect to find a Wi-Fi controller on higher motherboard models, with a CLR_CMOS button next to that gap. Competitor MSI justifies more of its price difference by including a Flashback button to enable updating firmware without a compatible CPU or RAM.
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Today, we have published an Intel X299 Micro ATX motherboard test with a sweepstake on OCinside.de! After the recently released AMD Threadripper Micro ATX motherboards from ASRock we have the Intel X299 Micro ATX tested today. The new ASRock X299M Extreme4 not only offers great features like three PCI Express slots, two Ultra M.2 32Gb/s slots, eight SATA3 ports, etc. but even has some more unusual features like the OC header.
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ASRock’s X299E-ITX/ac really does mITX X299 perfectly. If you want 18 cores of a CPU, lots of M.2 drives, maybe some normal SSDs or mechanical drives, they all fit in here. Dual LAN chips, Wi-Fi, and decent sound are all present as well. Support for some high-speed RAM? Yes, that’s here too, and there are a decent number of USB ports all things considered.
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