AMD Athlon 200GE vs. Intel Pentium Gold G5400

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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ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI)

The HERO set of products from the ROG series serve as the introduction to the flagship series of the company, and ASUS positions them to be the best balance of value and feature. Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the ASUS ROG Maximus XI HERO Wi-Fi, one of the launch models in ASUS’ ROG stack of Z390 products. Let’s take a look if this is worth being your first motherboard for the dip to 9th-gen. Read on!

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ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9

hose of you who have a good memory for images might be confused by the branding, since ASRock’s Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 uses the same plastic covers over its I/O panel and audio pathways as the Z390 Taichi Ultimate, to cover the same voltage regulator and sinks as that more-expensive board. It even uses the same PCB, leaving only the PCH sink and some screen printing to differentiate its “Taichi” and “Phantom Gaming” brands.

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ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE II

As well as all the elements you would expect to find on a fully-featured X299 motherboard, the Deluxe II now is equipped with an Aquantia 5G LAN socket on board, Intel’s latest 9260 MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wireless networking and the best Thunderbolt 3 implementation we’ve seen yet.

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ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9

Today we test on OCinside.de the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 motherboard with Intel Z390 chipset. You have to see the features and you can overclock the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 excellently! How high you can overclock an Intel 8th Gen and the new Intel 9th Gen CPU we test on this Intel LGA1151 v2 motherboard with an Intel Core i7-8700K and very impressive with an Intel Core i9-9900K CPU.

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