Motherboard News & Reviews

Welcome to the Motherboard News & Reviews Database. This is a collection, primarily of reviews, dedicated to motherboards from across the globe. Looking for something specific? Use the search utility, tags, or just explore through using the drop-down menu. From there, you can select your preferred motherboard manufacturer to find a listing of motherboards by chipset that have reviews available. If it’s been reviewed recently, you’ll find it. All reviews that are not natively in English will have translated links provided where possible.

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ASUS Z590 ROG MAXIMUS Boards Detailed

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ASUS began taking preorders for its Z590 motherboards just yesterday. Among TUF and STRIX series, only one ROG Maximus motherboard is currently listed on Amazon, the XIII Hero. The Hero series has always been very popular, often being the best compromise between ridiculously priced Extreme or Apex series while still offering all premium and often unnecessary features that we simply ‘want’ to have from the Maximus series.

ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero, Extreme, and Extreme Glacial have all been detailed in a new slide deck that was just sent to us. The presentation has a lot of details that we are not going to repeat in this post. We encourage you to just click on the first slide and enjoy the presentation.

See slides & more @ VideoCardz

ASRock X570 TAICHI RAZER EDITON

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The Razer Edition of the X570 Taichi is quite an improvement in terms of added features over the original, which was a great motherboard as well. To squeeze the even more performance out of the system, an even beefier VRM is installed with 16 phases, we’ve got an improved audio system, 2.5 Gigabit LAN, WiFi 6 via the Killer AX1650x, Razer Chroma integration and more!

Read more @ [M]adShrimps

MSI MEG B550 UNIFY – HKEPC

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MSI launches a new flagship motherboard “MEG B550 UNIFY”, featuring a luxurious straight-out 16-phase 90A digital power supply design, a full-coverage extended I/O cover and a double-sided FROZR metal heat sink, supporting DDR4 5100+ OC memory speed And PCIe 4.0 configuration, it also has 4 sets of M.2 SSD configuration, WIFI 6 and 2.5G LAN network module. The B550 UNIFY with low chipset positioning is unexpectedly good for the big brother X570 UNIFY, which is simply unbelievable.

Read more @ HKEPC (Chinese)

ASRock Taichi Razer Edition – Razer Synapse 3

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Today on OCinside.de we are testing a special RGB software that can be installed with the brand new ASRock Taichi Razer Edition motherboard. Currently available are the ASRock X570 Taichi Razer Edition and the ASRock B550 Taichi Razer Edition motherboards. With this we tested the extensive Razer Synapse 3 tool including Razer Chroma Studio and explained it step by step in this video tutorial. German with English subs. In addition, there will soon be another video with the RGB effects on our OCinside YouTube Channel. The complete review of the ASRock Taichi Razer Edition AMD AM4 motherboard will be available soon as well.

Read more @ OCInside

ASRock X570 PG Velocita

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When AMD launched their Ryzen 5000 series processors late last year we sort of got a “refresh” of X570 motherboards.  One of those boards was the ASRock X570 PG Velocita, which sits in their Phantom Gaming (PG) line.  This board is all ready for the new 5000 series processors with upgraded power stages, Killer networking for both the 2.5G LAN and 802.11ax WiFi 6, USB 3.2 gen 2, Gen4 M.2 NVMe storage, and of course a sleek design with RGB lighting.  Is this the board you need to get for your Ryzen 5000 series build? Read on as we find out!

Read more @ ThinkComputers

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO (WI-FI)

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As for performance, memory overclocking was pretty good, but not quite top-tier. The ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Pro (WiFi) did well to reach 4000 MHz with the stock XMP timings on my Trident Z Neo kit, and was able to boot with the tighter C14 B-die setting at 3600 MHz, but was not able to pass stability testing with the tightened timings. However, ASUS gets points for the safeguards and aids they have put in place, which make the overclocking process simpler and less stressful. The retry logic for overclocking works very well and does a great job of recovering to the BIOS after a failed overclocking attempt.

Read more @ TechPowerUp

MSI Announces New A520, B550 mATX Motherboards

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MSI has announced two new entry-level mATX motherboards, the MAG A520M BAZOOKA WIFI and the MAG B550M VECTOR WIFI. These are both interesting boards, with the A520 board being one of the few that feature an integrated Wi-Fi solution. It features a heatsink on the VCore portion of the VRM, as well as an available M.2 heatsink. One the B550M VECTOR WIFI front, we also have another mATX form factor board featuring a similar or identical layout, VRM, etc. Click the links to find out more on each of these new boards.

MSI MPG Z590 GAMING FORCE

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Courtesy of momomo_us, we have a picture today of MSI’s upcoming Z590 motherboard, the MAG Z590 GAMING FORCE. This board features an elegant design highlighting the MSI dragon logo, as well as deep purple heatsinks and golden highlights. Large heatsinks cover the 16 phase VRM hardware, two PCIe x16 slots, three M.2 slots and more adorn the board. An interesting item ins the PCIe 6-pin power connector at the bottom of the board to further supplement power to the board. This should mainly be for the extreme overclockers.

MSI & ASUS AGESA 1.2.0.0 BIOS Availability

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ASUS has started to roll our AGESA v1.2.0.0 compatible beta BIOS’, and MSI is not far behind. This drop add support for further CPU models, and per Patrick Schur and 1USMUS, possibly additional bug fixes, and updated SMU and improvements to Curve Optimizer. I’ve already loaded the latest Beta BIOS for the TUF GAMING X570-PRO (WI-FI), but haven’t seen any noticeable changes. I had already hit a stable 1900MHz FCLK, and that remains stable with this release. Front panel USB 3.0 ports are now running capped at USB 2.0 theoretical max (480Mb / 60MB), but that’s another story. Head over to MSI or ASUS to check for a BIOS update. X570, B550, A520 are generally rolling out first, with X470 and others to follow next month.

Intel Z590 Motherboards Detailed @ AnandTech

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Due to the size of the core being used, the newest Rocket Lake flagship is only 8 cores compared to the previous generation’s 10, but by contrast, Intel has put a few new features onto the leading flagship chipset, and a number of vendors are straight out of the gate with a wide variety of models and price points. There are two (or three)big differences between the new Z590 and the previous flagship Z490.

First up is the CPU-to-chipset link, which has been doubled from a DMI x4 link to a DMI x8 link. This means an effective CPU-to-chipset bandwidth of a PCIe 3.0 x8 link, and suggests that two PCIe 3.0 x4 drives can be attached and run at full speed. Out of all the 500-series chipsets, we are under the impression that Z590 is the only one that will do this, with all others forcing an x4 link. Also, the x8 link only works with Rocket Lake CPUs, and will downgrade to x4 with a previous generation processor.

Read more @ AnandTech