Intel finally expanded the core count of its mainstream processors, facilitating solid all-around performance from the Core i7-8700K. Aggressive Turbo Boost bins ensure great performance in lightly-threaded workloads, while six cores cut through demanding tasks much more adeptly than Core i7-7700K. Intel’s Core i7 line-up is still expensive, but you’ll pay a lot less per core than in prior generations.
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Their new Z370-Pro Gaming is on our test bench today, and it’s already only of the most unique looking Z370 motherboards we’ve seen in the office, or anywhere for that matter. It comes equipped with TUF Protection and TUF Components, ensuring your system stays running in demanding tasks, 24/7. That’s good news for those who plan to overclock their hardware and run their system with demanding tasks extensively.
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Sure, Z370 offers no innovation over Z270, but with the new 6-core CPUs installed, they’re some of the fastest gaming hardware on the market today. With that in mind, we’ve got yet another premium gaming motherboard to test today, the ASRock Z370 Fatal1ty Gaming K6!
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The Ultra Gaming is, as you might have guessed, a gaming-focused motherboard. It features support for multiple graphics cards, high-performance memory, overclocking of the CPU, and blazing fast storage solutions. So let’s dive in and take a closer look at what it has to offer.
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The new board comes equipped with support for the new 8th-Gen CPUs, such as the 6-core Intel Core i5-8400 and the Core i7-8700K we recently reviewed. To give you more value for your money, you’ll also find Aura Sync RGB lighting, M.2 Heatsink cooling, easy overclocking and optimizations, powerful onboard audio, networking and more.
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One of the first motherboards we’ll be testing is the new ASUS RoG STRIX Z370-I. Of course, it’s also one of the first Z370 Mini-ITX motherboard we’ve tested too. Mini-ITX is a popular market, especially for those who want a compact system that doesn’t eat up lots of desktop space, or that they can take to LAN gaming events.
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If high-end overclocking isn’t all you’re after, you’ll also find room for multiple graphics card, exceptional onboard audio thanks to Realtek and DTS Connect, a huge amount of storage options including M.2 and Optane, as well as Gigabit LAN. Oh, and it has RGB lighting, but show me something that doesn’t these days; love it or hate it, it’s here to stay.
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ith support for SLI and CrossfireX via 4 PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots it could form the backbone of even the most extreme gaming system, whilst the combination of three Gigabit LAN ports and AC WiFi keep you connected no matter how strenuous the situation. Elsewhere some blistering DDR4 speeds and a wide selection of USB ports ensure that you will never run out of bandwidth.
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ith dual LAN, gold plating, high end audio, USB 3.1, RGB LEDs everywhere you look and even swappable overlays the Gaming 7 brings many tools to the party. Of all the manufacturers Gigabyte are the ones who have really taken lighting to the next level and the support for 300 (count em) Digital LEDs is something that we cannot wait to see in action once the modders get their hands on it.
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The combination of AC WiFi and Intel I219-V keep you connected to the world whilst dual M.2 sockets and umpteen USB ports ensure that your devices work to their fullest capacity at all times. Combine the multi-GPU support and the SupremeFX audio with the AUDA Sync lighting and 3D printed mounts and you can be sure that things will look as nice whether you’re looking at your monitor or staring in through the side window.
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