In keeping with its name, the XPower Gaming Titanium is titanium-colored. The cooler and the PCB are designed in this color. Together with the black components such as the processor base and the memory slots, the result is a very harmonious color concept. Openwork is the optics only by the red OC button, and the inside of the USB -3.1 front connector.
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Today we take a look at GIGABYTE’s Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming WIFI-OP, a more affordable, a basic refresh motherboard that comes packaged with Optane storage. Intel has been trying hard to get people to utilize Optane as a large cache for a slower drive when it comes to bridging the gap between modern NVMe drives and traditional hard drives.
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We’ll just come right out and say it: The Gigabyte X399 Designare EX is the most beautiful board we’ve tested from the AMD camp thus far. It’s also a top performer in our charts, but comes with a price tag to match–it’s currently selling for between $370 and $400.
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Back at the end of July, following on from the X470 chipset, AMD launched their B450 motherboard lineup, offering a more budget-friendly entry point to the AMD Ryzen processors. ASRock were quick off the mark, releasing several new motherboards to cater for different criteria; today we look at the AS Rock B450M Pro4 motherboard.
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The MSI MEG X399 Creation is an E-ATX form factor motherboard on AMD’s X399 chipset and has a variety of features specifically aimed towards professional users and content creators such as dual Intel Gigabit LAN, integrated 2T2R Wave 2 capable Wi-Fi, and it also has support for Bluetooth 5.
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The MSI MEG X399 Creation is the first MSI motherboard in a long time to have a different naming convention. Instead of going with the XPOWER or their more common carbon model, we have the MEG Creation. Sporting a whopping 19 phase digital power design, enough fan headers to cool even the most demanding setup as well as with all the features that one expects to find on a modern motherboard…
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The flagship Threadripper 2990WX is an $1800 beast armed with an incredible 32 Zen+-based cores and the ability to work on 64 threads concurrently. Threadripper 2970WX wields 24 cores and 48 threads, plus lower boost frequencies, but also pushes pricing down to $1300. Those are both quad-die configurations.
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This means that workstation users are often compute bound, and like to throw resources at the problem, be it cores, memory, storage, or graphics acceleration. AMD’s latest foray into the mix is its second generation Threadripper product, also known as Threadripper 2, which breaks the old limit on cores and pricing: the 2990WX gives 32 cores and 64 threads for only $1799. There is also the 2950X, with 16 cores and 32 threads, for a new low of $899. We tested them both.
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The suitability for overclocking was beyond any doubt, but apart from that we could observe some minor and major mistakes. BIOS versions that could damage the mainboard, an incorrectly designed voltage measuring point and a few software problems clouded the picture a bit. We judged last year that ASUS had lost sight of its sovereignty with the Crosshair product line.
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In this review, we finally put the Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO WIFI to the test with our AMD Ryzen 2 2700 CPU. Since we didn’t have the chance to power up the motherboard in the previous articles, we can now take a look at the aesthetics when the RGB lighting comes into play.
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