A micro-ATX size offers up easier integration of the various ports and slots than, say, mini-ITX. The four DIMM slots ought to be coloured in dual-channel mode, though if you do put two sticks next to each other – in single-channel configuration – a BIOS screen pops up and informs you of the potential faux pas
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The Strix Z370-I Gaming provides excellent hardware with only the smallest of layout concerns. We recommend waiting for another firmware update that patches the Load-line Calibration bug before adding it to your shopping list.
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Following in the footsteps of eight previous Maximus Formula predecessors dating back a decade to 2008, the Maximus X Formula brings the iconic ROG heritage to Intel’s 8th generation platform. Featuring everything gamers have come to love about Formula from the EKWB powered VRM cooling, ROG Armor, steel backplate, and RGB lighting and mixed it in with the new LiveDash…
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The Z370 TOMAHAWK is designed to fulfill the needs of those who can’t or won’t dish out over $200 for a motherboard. That market is huge, and MSI has done a good job of addressing platform cost in regards to Intel’s latest 8th Generation platform.
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They had the ROG Stix X299-XE Gaming and I figured I should get it in and see just how it compares to all of the other X299 boards we have had in. I knew it fits the dimensions needed for the Case Labs case but is it going to be what I need otherwise? Well, I’m going to take a closer look at its features and then test it to see how it performs. Read on if you are interested in finding out what it has to offer.
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The Prime X299-Deluxe we are looking at here happens to be the flagship in the ‘consumer’ X299 lineup, separate to the Republic of Gamers brand which focuses more on gaming functionality. The idea is that the non-gaming line has fewer of the gaming focused features, and might exhibit other appropriate features that a mainstream consumer is interested in.
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Gigabyte recently released their X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO motherboard with improved VRM design, let’s have a look and review it. It is a nice motherboard in dark accents that resides in a high-end segment. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby-Lake-X and Skylake-X processors and has the looks to kill.
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It’s certainly well equipped for a mini-ITX motherboard, offering M.2 and Optane support for blazing fast storage devices. High-end audio comes courtesy of the ALC1220 chipset, there’s super fast WiFi, high-end power delivery hardware and RGB lighting. The list goes on, but spec for spec, it would be easy to think this was a full-size ATX motherboard.
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Whereas the Ryzen 5 2400G comes with four SMT-enabled Zen cores and 11 Radeon Vega CUs, the Ryzen 3 2200G includes four cores without simultaneous multi-threading and eight CUs, enabling 512 Stream processors. Although Ryzen 3’s resource allocation isn’t far off from the flagship, it costs $70 less than Ryzen 5 2400G.
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Just one mini-ITX motherboard currently exists for Intel X299 and with constraints like SO-DIMM only memory and steep pricing, system builders willing to put up with a larger footprint would be wise to consider micro-ATX as an alternative. Today we review one of only three micro-ATX motherboards for X299 – the MSI X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
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