Gigabyte recently released their X299 Aorus Gaming 7 PRO motherboard with improved VRM design, let’s have a look and review it. It is a nice motherboard in dark accents that resides in a high-end segment. This X299 motherboard can house Kaby-Lake-X and Skylake-X processors and has the looks to kill.
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It’s certainly well equipped for a mini-ITX motherboard, offering M.2 and Optane support for blazing fast storage devices. High-end audio comes courtesy of the ALC1220 chipset, there’s super fast WiFi, high-end power delivery hardware and RGB lighting. The list goes on, but spec for spec, it would be easy to think this was a full-size ATX motherboard.
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Just one mini-ITX motherboard currently exists for Intel X299 and with constraints like SO-DIMM only memory and steep pricing, system builders willing to put up with a larger footprint would be wise to consider micro-ATX as an alternative. Today we review one of only three micro-ATX motherboards for X299 – the MSI X299M Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
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The X299 Aorus Gaming 7 Pro has all the features and benefits of the X299 Aorus Gaming 7, along with a higher-capacity voltage regulator and a couple extra M.2 covers. Potential buyers who were considering the former should further consider the additional amperage offered in this version, to support their extreme overclocking ambitions.
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Mini-ITX Z370 motherboards are not rare, but today we have a new mini-ITX Z370 motherboard from a company that typically does not partake in the mini-ITX game. SuperMicro’s subsidiary SuperO has one mission; to produce PC gaming products. That means SuperO is dedicated to making motherboards targeted at gamers, which is not an easy task since it is hard to relate motherboard features to equivalent gaming benefits.
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The biggest barrier to entry of the X299 platform is price, and ASRock is looking to shake things up by providing a low cost but reliable product with basic platform features. ASRock is known for making waves with fairly priced loaded products, so let’s see how this one does.
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The X299 Micro has three full-length PCIe slots, supporting up to 2-way graphics. The physical slot configuration allows for a dual slot GPU to fit in the primary GPU slot (top) and the secondary just below it. Technically EVGA’s manual suggests support for SLI plus an additional PhysX graphics card, should single-slot GPUs be in play, with the third slot being a PCIe 3.0 x4 from the chipset.
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If you are familiar with the name Supermicro, you probably spend some time around data centers and servers in general. However, with more than 2 decades of providing 24x7x365 reliability in the enterprise IT world, Supermicro started providing that same server-grade DNA in its SUPERO consumer gaming brand a few years ago to Intel’s 4th and 5th generation Core platforms.…
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ASRock’s Z370 Professional Gaming i7 is their top of the line Z370 motherboard targeting the most demanding power users and gamers. The motherboard features high-quality components through and through, tons of USB 3.1, triple M.2 slots, and on top of everything it has one of the best networking configurations of any Z370 motherboard.
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Supermicro’s X11SPI-TF single socket P (LGA 3647) is a server motherboard with an ATX form factor. It utilises Intel’s C622 chipset which has 20 PCIe lanes, 10 USB 3.0 ports, 14 SATA ports, and 8x PCIe Uplink. The chipset also offers support for Intel Virtualization technology (VT-d), vPro, RST enterprise, Node Manager, and Platform Trust Technology (PTT).
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