AMD X470 Motherboard Review Collection
The X470 Gaming M7 AC carves a meaty $229 out of your PC build or upgrade budget, but many gamers will consider its bling potential and tweaking tools well worth the price. Those aiming for a simpler build and who won’t be overclocking their Ryzen can opt for a more budget-friendly B350-based board.
Read more @ PC Mag
The suitability for overclocking was beyond any doubt, but apart from that we could observe some minor and major mistakes. BIOS versions that could damage the mainboard, an incorrectly designed voltage measuring point and a few software problems clouded the picture a bit. We judged last year that ASUS had lost sight of its sovereignty with the Crosshair product line.
Read more @ Planet 3DNow! (German)
The GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WIFI board features a matte black PCB with with a black armor overlay protecting the rear panel and audio components, as well as an integrated rear panel shield. In keeping with their previous AORUS series board designs, GIGABYTE spread RGB LEDs throughout the board’s surface, configurable via the UEFI or the windows app.
Read more @ PC Perspective
The mini-ITX motherboard market was long dominated by Intel due to the company’s indisputable advantage in CPU power efficiency, an essential characteristic for small form factors. That was until AMD introduced its game-changing Zen CPU architecture in early 2017 and now, with Zen in the second generation, AMD mini-ITX solutions are as competitive as ever.
Read more @ KitGuru
The Taichi Ultimate is the flagship AM4 ATX motherboard from ASRock which has a clear focus on performance. A few indications of this include the addition of an Aquantia AQC107 10Gb/s 10GBase-T network port, as well a large and overkill sixteen phase power delivery controlled by the formidable International Rectifier Infineon IR35201 PWM controller.
Read more @ AnandTech
ASRock has many interesting motherboards each generation so we are just waiting to see something exceptional based on a new chipset. For the premiere of the X470 chipset, ASRock was ready with a couple of motherboards. One of them so the X470 Taichi, is presented in this review.
Read more @ FunkyKit
On the surface, the Asus TUF X470-Plus Gaming looks to be a low-end board with Asus branding slapped onto it. Fortunately, the frugal facade is misleading, as this TUF motherboard performs quite well in all but one metric, making it a good overall product and a great foundation for an AMD-based TUF Alliance gaming build.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware
The introduction of AMD’s X470 chipset was an unspectacular affair, bringing only a handful of incremental improvements over the preceding X370 chipset. X470 motherboards reflect this trend too with manufacturers, like ASUS with its ROG Strix X470-F Gaming, using X470 as a justification to refresh existing X370 motherboards with some of the latest features and design innovations that have developed since.
Read more @ KitGuru
We review the ASUS TUF X470 Plus-Gaming, optimized for Ryzen 2000 / Zen+ on a motherboard with an ATX form factor. Alongside the release of Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X processors, AMD prepped the X470 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen processor. The new board offers is more appealing budget wise as it is selling at a 159,- USD/EUR price point.
Read more @ Guru3D
Today we take a look at ASRock’s X470 Taichi motherboard, one of the brands better known and widely enjoyed SKUs. In fact, we reviewed the Taichi Ultimate version with more high-end features, and today we are looking at a motherboard that costs roughly $60 less with a similar feature set. Both of the Taichi models offer up RGB, but their heat sink and cover colors are opposite of each other.
Read more @ TweakTown