AMD X470 Motherboard Review Collection
Our second X470 review is of ASUS’s Crosshair VII Hero, and it’s one loaded motherboard. At the original Ryzen launch ASUS also launched a Crosshair motherboard, which is part of their top tier ROG brand for AMD. ASUS typically has provided excellent support for AMD systems, and today we look at their best and brightest star, the Crosshair VII Hero.
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AMD pushed vendors to improve VRMs, and many vendors have fixed oddities that might have existed with X370 motherboards. Overall, these motherboards should be more refined and should offer more motherboard features, so let’s take a look at the GIGABYTE X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI.
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With the recent launch of the 2nd generation AMD Ryzen CPU’s, it’s to be expected motherboards would get a revamp as well. Besides the new chipset, the beloved Crosshair Hero has undergone some significant tweaking, some aesthetic and functional, and some less obvious but very important. A pre-mounted I/O shield will be welcome and readily apparent, but an updated and…
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So, AMD’s 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs turned out to be rather good, but to take advantage of all the features on offer, you’ll need one of the newer X470 or B450 motherboards, and it’s the former that we’re looking at today, specifically Gigabyte’s X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi.
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MSI released its lineup of five socket AM4 X470-based gaming motherboards in time with the new second generation Ryzen processors from AMD earlier this week, covering a range of performance across the gaming market. Today we examine the top dog of this new X470 lineup from MSI in the form of the X470 GAMING M7 AC motherboard.
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However, Gigabyte’s designers have taken the feedback from the media and builders to make this board even better than their 300 series predecessors. This X470 board has toned down the plastic and over-aggressive molding of boards past, in favor of a more industrial and anodized styling. We’d call that an improvement.
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The GAMING M7 AC features two RGB LED lit zones, one above the IO shield at the back and then a bank of 8 LEDs mounted on the reverse side, on the top-right section; illuminating the rear of the DIMM slots against the motherboard back plate. The RGB implementation is arranged by MSIs Mystic Light.
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The STRIX X470-F GAMING features a neutral, black and white colour scheme, onto which the usual Aura Sync RGB colours are introduced on the IO shield at the back of the motherboard, illuminating the wedge shape and ROG logo. The graffiti style text on the southbridge heatsink gives an iridescent effect, changing colour depending on the angle of light hitting it.
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But I’m excited to see what everyone is going to do different this generation, I’m not used to seeing new AMD boards on the regular like this, I could get used to it! So to start things off I’m going to check out the X470 Gaming M7 AC from MSI that MSI and AMD provided.
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Equipped with an 8+2 VRM, and a set of chunky heatsinks, the X470-F should have some decent overclocking potential. OF course, with armored PCIe slots, dual M.2, AURA RGB and much more, it ticks off all the features one would expect from a premium gaming motherboard. If that wasn’t enough, a built-in rear I/O guard, USB 3.1 support and more certainly sweeten the deal.
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