MSI designed the X470 Gaming Pro Carbon as a midrange solution with some overclocking features to help you get the most out of your hardware. The board features an eight-phase power design with heatsinks to help keep the MOFSETs from overheating. It also has two eight-pin CPU power connectors, which can help to ensure a stable supply of power.
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It is designed to keep costs down and pass those savings along to the consumer while still maintaining a decent feature set through platform based features. It’s also part of Biostar’s Racing series, so it should pack some other features as well. Let’s take a look!
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Much like the first gen counterparts, the 2500X is a quad core processor with simultaneous multi-threading while the 2300X is a straight forward quad core. The X processors usually have a higher thermal design power (TDP) than hypothetical non-X equivalents, allowing them to take advantage of AMDs Extreme Frequency Range technology for higher turbos for longer given sufficient cooling, although these are set at 65W, similar to non-X processors.
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The Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 motherboard is one of the second salvos of AMD EPYC motherboards. When AMD EPYC first launched, the first motherboards offered had some reasonably specific use cases in mind. In this second salvo we are seeing from vendors, motherboards are coming out that are more general purpose in nature.
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Flagship overclocking, impressive I/O, and excellent performance make this board shine. If the price doesn’t stop you, the Aorus Xtreme is an excellent blend of the Aorus 7’s performance and the Designare EX’s style, making it one of our favorite X399 options.
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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.
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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.
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The X3999 Aorus Pro is certainly well equipped, offering support for the entire TR4 range of CPUs, as well as quad-channel DDR4 memory and overclocking. You’ll find superb connectivity too. There are USB 3.0, 3.1, and Type-C inputs. Expansion cards can benefit from 4-way GPU support.
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It comes with a ton of features such as ASRock’s Super Alloy, 8 Power Phase & Dr. MOS, as well as Phantom Gaming 2.5Gb/s LAN, PCIE steel slots, 3 x Ultra M.2 connectors, Polychrome RGB Sync, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (both Type-A and Type-C) and 12 x USB 3.1 Gen1 ports. And there’s more …
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AMD has really been taking the fight to Intel over the last year. Ryzen has made AMD a viable CPU option for gamers and enthusiasts while Threadripper is outstanding for workstations. But arguably the big money – and the most important battle – is at the highest end of the market. This is where EPYC comes in, and industrial-strength motherboards like the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 (rev. 1.0) on test here.
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