The Z390 Taichi’s price tag puts it in the top tier of ASRock’s current Z390 boards. The flagship of the Taichi series is the $319 Z390 Taichi Ultimate, which sports AQuantia’s 10-gigabit Ethernet LAN chip.
Read more @ PC Mag
Month: January 2019
GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS XTREME
However, occasionally they also have a flagship model that’s so expensive you’d have to be slightly mad to buy it. That’s essentially where the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme fits in the overall scheme of things, retailing for nearly twice the price of the next most expensive Aorus-branded Z390 board.
Read more @ Bit-Tech
AMD Athlon 200GE vs. Intel Pentium Gold G5400
In the course of our reviews, when we get a chance to get hands on with random processors, we run our test suite and add the data to our database. Sometimes that doesn’t materialize directly into a review, but at least we have the data. Two very similar CPUs have come across my desk recently: AMD’s dual core Athlon 200GE, and Intel’s Pentium G5400. Both chips round to the $60 mark, have some form of integrated graphics, and are aimed at budget systems.
Read more @ AnandTech
ASRock Z390 Extreme4
The VRM is in a 10+2 phase configuration. Each of the CPU and iGPU phases utilizes a dual N-channel SinoPower SM7341EH 25A MOSFET and a high current inductor. The main PWM controller is the UPI Semiconductor UP9521 in 5+2 phase mode.
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GIGABYTE Z390 DESIGNARE
While we have looked at other Z390 motherboards from GIGABYTE, today we take a look at our first one designed for content creators; the Z390 Designare. The Designare line targets content creators and modders, and for the most part has a white and black color theme as well as features for content creators, such as Thunderbolt 3.
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ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6
The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 I have here today boasts a full-coverage M.2 heatsink, dual Gigabit LAN, and ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine II. Not only are there three M.2 slots and eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports, but the feature ASRock is most excited to present, and rightfully so, is the new Phantom Gaming 2.5 Gb/s LAN.
Read more @ TechPowerUp
GIGABYTE X299 AORUS MASTER
Motherboard manufacturers are not late in the game, as many of them have released newer versions of X299 motherboards to enhance their current motherboard lineup. Gigabyte has released their new X299 AORUS MASTER motherboard to welcome the new Skylake X Refresh processors as well.
Read more @ The Tech Revolutionist
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI)
The HERO set of products from the ROG series serve as the introduction to the flagship series of the company, and ASUS positions them to be the best balance of value and feature. Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the ASUS ROG Maximus XI HERO Wi-Fi, one of the launch models in ASUS’ ROG stack of Z390 products. Let’s take a look if this is worth being your first motherboard for the dip to 9th-gen. Read on!
Read more @ B2G
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI EXTREME
In this review we’ll take a look at the performance flagship model of the Z390 range from ASUS, the ROG MAXIMUS XI EXTREME. A larger EATX motherboard featuring everything ASUS can cram in a single motherboard. Read on to find out more!
Read more @ B2G
ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9
hose of you who have a good memory for images might be confused by the branding, since ASRock’s Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 uses the same plastic covers over its I/O panel and audio pathways as the Z390 Taichi Ultimate, to cover the same voltage regulator and sinks as that more-expensive board. It even uses the same PCB, leaving only the PCH sink and some screen printing to differentiate its “Taichi” and “Phantom Gaming” brands.
Read more @ Tom’s Hardware