The latest chipset offers up support for quad-channel DDR4 with 8 x DIMM slots on the motherboard, making room for up to 128GB of memory. Add to that four full-size PCIe slots, for quad-GPU configurations, or additional PCIe M.2 storage, taking full advantage of the 64 PCIe lanes offered up by Threadripper. If that’s not enough, there’s also 3 x M.2, 8 x SATAIII, 2 x PCIe-Ex1, and so much more!
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Coming in at around £190, it is priced significantly lower than the Crosshair VI Hero, and does away with various features that are more geared towards enthusiasts and pro-overclockers, giving gamers a more specialised motherboard catering more for their needs.
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If you need Threadripper, you’ll know it. Heavy multitaskers, streamers, those who regularly use heavily threaded applications or have heavy PCIe requirements will all experience competitive performance. The recommendation comes with a caveat, though; if you’re looking strictly for the best gaming performance, you are better served with other alternatives.
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With the release of the Ryzen Threadripper there is also a new premium chipset, the X399, and ASUS have taken up the challenge and produced a model that slots into their Republic of Gamers range, the ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme.
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As our first motherboard reviewed for the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor generation, the Supermicro X11SPH-nCTF certainly feels like a next-generation platform. We are going to review the motherboard from the perspective of forming the foundation of a storage server because it has so many storage related features such as an onboard Broadcom SAS3 controller.
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Out of the gate today is AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper family, or Threadripper for short. These CPUs take a similar design as the AMD EPYC processors, but for a consumer platform. The first two CPUs are the 1950X and 1920X, with 16 and 12 cores respectively, to be then followed by the 8 core 1900X on August 31st, and the 1920 at sometime unknown.
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ASUS’s STRIX line of products has been a popular choice on other platforms for bringing strong gaming oriented features and aesthetics to an affordable mid-range price point. Asus now brings that along to the AMD Ryzen ecosystem in the form of the ASUS ROG STRIX X370-F Motherboard. Packing AMD’s X370 Enthusiast Class chipset, It supports Dual graphics cards, NVMe SSD’s,…
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The new AORUS X299 Gaming 9 does just that and the feature list is extensive, but here are some of the main features, 3-way graphics support, a server class digital power design, Killer DoubleShot Pro and Intel networking, triple M.2 slots and a PCIe expansion card giving you 1 more M.2, Creative Sound BlasterX 720 audio, Killer 2×2 802.11ac WiFi, USB 3.1, and more RGB LEDs than any other X299 board out there!
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Style has always been an important factor for gaming motherboards, and these days that means LED highlights and eye-catching coverings, namely heatsinks and shields, over key onboard components. The X299 Aorus Gaming 9 has plenty of these accoutrements, but it also has the meat-and-potatoes features that make for a powerful gaming board.
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Here for review we have the Asus X299 TUF Mark 1. At first glance, you might think its just another motherboard with an extra layer of marketing, but Asus has put their money where their mouth is. The TUF Mark 1 has an industry leading five year warranty, which is no small thing. Excellent!
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