The ROG Strix Gaming set of motherboards has several members varying from the inexpensive Z370-H at ~$150 to the Z370-F at ~$200. All the boards are jet black in color and use brushed aluminum heatsinks to cover the power delivery bits. RGB LEDs make an appearance on all the ROG Strix boards, and the Z370-F has the rear IO cover light up as well.
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By now, a few of you are wondering why the non-Wi-Fi board simply didn’t reclaim the two PCIe lanes previously dedicated to the Wi-Fi board’s 802.11ac controller. The only answer we have is that the unchanged PCB layout likely leaves those two resources as a pathway to nowhere.
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ASUS has decades of experience designing and building excellent motherboards, and that is evident in the ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming. It melds the key overclocking features ASUS is well-known for, with the bling factor that gamers and modders love so much. Hardware enthusiasts will like the enhanced CPU overclocking features that include a base clock frequency of up to 432 MHz, and the combination of a digital VRM design and the ASUS TurboV processing unit.
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ASUS released the c, it is time for a quick peek ‘n review to see what this board offers. Armed with that ROG flavor it is a board that performs and looks nice. The motherboard has been fitted with the usual suspects, including a Gigabit based Ethernet jack and on that PCB you may house two M2 SSDs. Fairly standard for Z370 sure.
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WiFi, plentiful USB ports of both types and all technologies available on the front panel and the rear IO section. For those of you who enjoy the experience of opening your new hardware and taking the time to enjoy every new packet that is revealed there are loads of accessories too, from simple cable identifying stickers all the way up to GPU brackets.
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As a Strix board, it has Asus’s now standard color neutral layout that uses black and gray, RGB lighting, and the angular Strix look. Today I’m going to take a look at its features, confirm that it performs well, check out the UEFI, and then talk a little about where it sits in the market and find out if it is worth picking up.
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Utilising the new Z370 chipset, the Z370-F Gaming hits the mid-range with a distinct yet unassuming monochrome theme. Across this motherboard, we have stunning aesthetics and a good variety of features which include support for up to 4000MHz DDR4, twin M.2 slots with heatsink and trademark ROG features like 5-Way Optimization with Auto-Tuning and FanXpert 4.
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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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Asus says it has improved the trace layout between CPU and memory in order to further reduce crosstalk and noise when running DDR4 at high speeds. To this end, the in-house-developed OptiMem technology pushes the maximum supported speed up from 3,600MHz (Z270-F) to 4,000MHz with all slots populated.
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