The Gaming 7 Wifi is one of three new Aorus X470 boards with others being Gaming 5 Wifi and Ultra Gaming. The 7 stands alone in terms of electrical specification as it has a 10+2-phase digital CPU power supply while the cheaper pair make do with 8+3.
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With 2017 finished, and Ryzen being very successful for AMD, the inevitable question was due: what happens next? Early in 2018, the plans were laid bare: a second generation Ryzen processor was set to come in mid-year, followed by a second generation Threadripper, using GlobalFoundries’ 12nm process. This is not AMD’s next big microarchitecture, which we know is called Zen 2 on 7nm, but an opportunity to launch a wave of components with minor improvements and take advantage of a manufacturing process that gives more frequency and more performance.
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The MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium is marketed as a top of the range ATX offering and currently stands as MSI’s flagship AM4 socket motherboard. The XPower branding over the years has been heavily associated with overclocking and enthusiast level performance, but due to a change in the direction MSI in terms of marketing, the XPowerbranding now correlates with gaming as well.
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The choice fell on an ASRock X399 Taichi. On the one hand, the purchase price tends towards the lower end of the price range of Threadripper motherboards and, on the other hand, ASRock has built a good reputation on Intel with the Taichi series in terms of price / performance and overclocking suitability.
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With the ASRock AB350 Gaming K4, as the name seems to imply, ASRock wants it two ways: a competitive gaming motherboard in the B350 chipset space. No idea why it is called the ‘AB350’, that’s just something ASRock seems to do, but the goal of the board here is to target the gaming crowd.
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Introduction The ASUS ROG Crosshair Vi Hero is one of the best X370 motherboards available right now and we are going to check out why. We got this high-end X370 motherboard as part of our AMD Ryzen review kit and it definitely lives up to the ASUS ROG brand name. Aesthetics The ASUS Crosshair VI…
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AMD’s Ryzen 5 2600 provides excellent performance in productivity applications and competitive frame rates in games. It’s also an attractive choice for anyone building a PC in a compact case, given a 65W TDP. But if you’re more interested in raw performance or overclocking, Ryzen 5 2600X is a better option for just $20 more.
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So even with new CPUs on the way if you are looking to build small form factor you will most likely still need to go X370 initially. So I’m excited both to finally see what Asus has to offer for AM4 ITX and to see how it compares to the Gigabyte AB350N board that I’ve been using all over the office. But I’m also hoping the Strix X370-I Gaming is a solid board that will let me build a crazy second gen Ryzen build when they finally come out as well.
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Supermicro primarily sells fully configured systems today, but the company still has a components business that forms the backbone of a large ecosystem. Our review today is going to be of the Supermicro H11DSi-NT, a dual AMD EPYC motherboard that is at the heart of the Supermicro 4023S-TRT 4U pedestal server.
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AMD’s new EPYC CPUs are real beasts; they support 128 PCI-E lanes, 8-channel memory, and up to 32 cores and 64 threads. With such high amounts of cores, features, and compactness EPYC CPUs are poised to re-awaken AMD’s competitiveness in the enterprise marketplace. Let’s see how Supermicro’s new motherboard gets along with AMD’s new EPYC CPU.
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