Most of the boards that were sent over are higher end, but MSI sent over their MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFI which isn’t a budget board but is a little easier on the wallet. Its name may be a little long, but at just under $270 is it a good sweet spot for a Z490 build? Today I’m going to find out!
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The Aorus Z490i Ultra is under Aorus’ lineup of board which carries the most variations – from specially themed boards to bringing the ITX offering of Aorus. There’s just something that Aorus does that makes their ITX boards shine even from other generations and platforms.
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With six cores and twelve threads, the comparative Intel options vary between something like the Core i7-9600KF with six cores and no hyperthreading, or to the i7-9700KF with eight cores and no hyperthreading. The downside is that both of these processors are more expensive: where the Ryzen 5 3600 is $199, the i5-9600KF is $263 and the i7-9700KF is $385.
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The 3300X serves as Ryzen 3’s new flagship part with four cores, eight threads, a 3.8 GHz base and 4.3 GHz boost, plus unified core design for a mere $120. AMD says this chip tackles Intel’s $157 six-core/thread Core i5-9400F and provides 20% more performance, which would be quite the feat.
The $99 Ryzen 3 3100 is the next step down the price ladder with four cores and eight threads and a 3.8 / 3.9 GHz base/boost frequency, but it’s a steep step down on performance due to a different distribution of cores across the chiplet.
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When AMD announced the new Ryzen 3 processors built on Zen 2, I was under the impression that these were essentially the reject parts from AMD’s successful Ryzen 3000 line. Inside is a single chiplet with only four cores active out of eight, pushing up to 4.3 GHz; but the kicker was the low price of $120 for the high frequency version, or $99 for a bit slower.
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Join Josh in this Quick Look video review of the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X, a $330 motherboard with all the features and power to handle the complete range of Ryzen 3000 desktop processors. Check out the full video to find out why Josh gives this board the PC Perspective Editor’s Choice Award.
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The ASUS PRIME X570 Pro is part of ASUS’s PRIME series which is aimed more at content creators than gamers. At its current price point is really a mid-range motherboard. At the time of this writing costs around $250 from most retailers.
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