Intel X299 Motherboard Review Collection
The only consumer Mini-ITX motherboard for LGA 2066 becomes our only choice for these builds. Users who are certain that they have sufficient airflow over the voltage regulator will be very pleased with its overclocking capabilities, and those less certain should add a monitoring device.
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The SLI Plus range of MSI motherboards is a brand that aims for a low-cost price point, but uses the overclocking chipset to aim for the entry level of performance-per-dollar while still retaining all the key chipset features as well as a number of aesthetics.
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With the disappointing absence of Asus in the HEDT micro-ATX arena since it canned its Rampage Gene a while back, we’ve had to rely on other manufacturers, and thankfully all have come up trumps over the last few years. Here we’re looking at MSI’s effort at a micro-ATX X299 board, and the X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC – to give it its full name – seems to be right on the money too.
Read more @ Bit-Tech
Join us in a review of the hippest board of 2017, the Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme, yes, the Rampage is back. An enticing looking motherboard in a dark theme offering nice features, design and of course performance. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors.
Read more @ Guru3D
In this review I’ll be looking at the EVGA X299 Micro. This is a MicroATX motherboard based on the Intel X299 chipset and designed for the new LGA 2066 Core-X processor platform. If you couldn’t tell this is the replacement chipset for the previous X99 and promises to deliver more power for your high-end desktop needs.
Read more @ Hardware Asylum
If you aren’t deep into the overclocking scene, the name Nick Shih might not mean anything to you, but if you poke around many of the CPU benchmarking record charts online you’ll often see the handle ‘nickshih’ on the front page. The Brainchild of ASRock’s OC Formula lineup, Nick knows what it takes to break records and ASRock brings that…
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X299 motherboard VRMs received bad press after investigative research by professional overclocker der8auer demonstrated a tendency for them to run uncomfortably hot with overclocked Skylake-X CPUs. So much so that ASRock has pushed out an enhanced version of its X299 Taichi motherboard, the X299 Taichi XE, even though its X299 Taichi had been highly praised for its VRM and not implicated in the X299 VRM “scandal”.
Read more @ KitGuru
Our first look at MSI X299 offerings arrived in the form of a mid-range board from the Arsenal Gaming series, the Tomahawk Arctic. The Tomahawk line of motherboards, MSI says, have heavy plated heatsinks and “combative looks ready for anything”.
Read more @ AnandTech
The ASRock X299 OC Formula, on the other hand, is ready to push 450W easily (provided the VRM has the required airflow), making it one of the few boards out there ready to push the new i9-7980XE CPU I have sitting here on my desk. These CPUs can pull that 250W at stock, if not more, when Turbo is enabled. So if you’ve got plans on getting one of Intel’s HCC CPUs, you best pay attention to this motherboard that is ready to break past such limits.
Read more @ TechPowerUp
Ten SATA III ports and 3 M.2 sockets ensure that even the most drive-rich setup is catered for. If you’ve ever found yourself having to condense smaller drivers into one larger one for port reasons, fear not, the XPOWER has you covered. Equally plentiful are USB 3.1 sockets.
Read more @ OC3D