Apart from the odd aesthetic omission, the only significant cutbacks you’ll notice at a glance are a drop to just one M.2 heatsink and also slightly less elaborate power circuitry and cooling, with an 8+3 phase design and none of the dense, heat-pipe-linked heatsinks of the more expensive board.
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The most evident refinement from Gigabyte is entirely practical, though. Witness the Gaming 7’s monster VRM heatsink. This cooler starts with a six-millimeter-diameter copper heat pipe that comes into direct contact with the thermal pads beneath.
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We received our sample of the Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi as part of the press kit that AMD delivered for the launch of Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X CPUs. As we expected, the Crosshair VII Hero is a high end motherboard that is loaded with overclocking features and while it looks and feels really solid, our initial testing suggested that performance was nothing special.
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We review our second X470 board from Gigabyte, the X470 Aorus Gaming Ultra. You can consider this board as a very affordable one, priced in the €139,- (similar in USD) you get the benefits from the X470, and overall a very nicely built motherboard really. X470 offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen Gen2 processor.
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MSI has announced five different motherboards for their X470 line up designed for different kinds of gamers and PC enthusiasts. The MSI X470 Gaming Plus is the most affordable motherboard in the line-up and they sent this to us to check out. What’s in the box? The front of the box has the typical MSI…
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This £175 board ships with a healthy feature set, including an M.2 heatsink, a further M.2 slot on the back, 12 edge LEDs for the oh-so-obligatory RGB, high-quality audio, Gigabit LAN, 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2, and a PCIe x16 slot. Getting all of these on to the form factor is no easy task, but after having had a play around with it for the last couple of days, Asus has done a reasonable job.
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The Gaming Pro Carbon AC has been MSI’s top dog for the mid-range across a range of AMD and Intel sockets over the last few years. You can usually expect a smattering of premium features, but with a much lower price tag than the all-singing, all-dancing models that typically retail for over £200.
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There are many good motherboard brands on the market but ASRock is always surprising with something special. We were reviewing the X299E-ITX/ac so the only motherboard designed for the Skylake-X processors in mini ITX format and now it’s time on the only micro ATX motherboard for the AMD Threadripper – X399M Taichi.
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ASRock sent us the X370 Pro4 just before the launch of AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen. This was unexpected because we knew full well the new Ryzens would be accompanied by the X470 chipset, which meant the X370 Pro4 felt old before its time.
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We review the ROG Strix X470-F Gaming, optimized for Ryzen 2000 / Zen+ on a motherboard with an ATX form factor. Alongside the release of Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X processors, AMD prepped the X470 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen processor. The new ROG Strix X470-F Gaming is a little more appealing budget wise as it is selling at a € 209,- price point.
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