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GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS MASTER – TweakTown

May 18, 2021 by Stephen

For Z590, GIGABYTE is focusing on several key features for the Master, the first being the Extreme Power Design using 90A SPS for each phase along with high current MOSFETS and Tantalum Polymer Capacitors. This allows the AORUS Master to run with lower temperatures and improved transient response to changes in load.
Another significant feature of the Z590 AORUS Master is improved memory performance and compatibility with DDR4 5000+ kits that are being released into the market for Rocket Lake S CPUs. This rolls us into the PCIe 4.0 hardware design with tighter tolerances than PCIe 3.0; this means less signal loss and more stability on ports and slots designed for Gen4 devices.

GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS TACHYON – PC Gamer

May 18, 2021 by Stephen

All this talk of overclocking might imply that the board is a one trick pony but that’s definitely not the case. LN2 overclockers make up just a fraction of a fraction of the market, and a regular user looking to push their 11th Gen K-series CPU with regular cooling won’t be lacking anything in terms of connectivity. You get eight SATA ports and three M.2 slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (including a Type-C 2×2 port), Intel 2.5G LAN and Wi-Fi 6E, all of which you’d expect on a high-end board. Perhaps 5G or 10G LAN would be nice given the cheaper Aorus Master comes with 10G.

BIOSTAR Z590 VALKYRIE – TechPowerUp

May 18, 2021 by Stephen

The BIOSTAR Z590 Valkyrie features a massive VRM featuring 90 A top of the line power stages. BIOS flashback has also been included, as well as a dual BIOS. Along with the heavy-duty VRM design, the BIOSTAR Z590 Valkyrie features a unique aesthetic of black and gold, 2.5 Gb/s LAN from Realtek, and more. Let’s take a closer look at what the BIOSTAR Z590 Valkyrie has to offer!

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII EXTREME GLACIAL – Pause Hardware

May 17, 2021 by Stephen

This new water block is made of pure electrolytic copper plated with nickel in order to prevent oxidation. The coolant is directed by milled paths passing first on your processor, then through the M.2 slot, through the PCH and finally through the vrm. Integrated sensors at the inlet and outlet therefore transmit statistics to the Fan Xpert 4 software. You will always have an eye on the flow rate of your flow as well as on the temperature of your liquid. Finally, a small addressable RGB touch is integrated and visible through the plexiglass panels located at the ends.

BIOSTAR Z590 VALKYRIE – Hardware-Inside

May 17, 2021 by Stephen

With the Intel Z590 chipset, BIOSTAR offers a new mainboard series called VALKYRIE, which is aimed at enthusiasts. The VALKYRIE mainboards are available in two versions, the Z590 VALKYRIE (ATX) and the Z590I VALKYRIE (Mini-ITX). Both mainboards want to convince with their good equipment and design. We take a look at the Z590 VALKYRIE (ATX), which stands out above all for its 22-phase power supply design. Accordingly, we are curious to see how well the Z590 VALKYRIE will perform against an Intel Core i9-11900K, you will learn more in our test. BIOSTAR provided us with a test sample for this test.

TechSpot: Intel B560 is a Disaster

May 12, 2021 by Stephen

Depending on the B560 motherboard, performance of locked 65 watt parts like the 11400 and 11700 can be negatively impacted by over 30%. That’s right, we’re not talking about parts like the Core i9-11900K, but rather processors you will be using with a budget B560 motherboard.
Prior to this testing, the only B560 board that I had looked at was the MSI B560 Tomahawk which we used to review and benchmark the 11400F for our review. Performance was identical to Z590 boards I’d tested from the likes of Asus, MSI and Gigabyte. MSI even told me it was to be expected that B560 motherboards would offer the same level of performance as their Z590 counterparts, but it turns out that’s not always the case. Far from it.

MSI MEG Z590 ACE – PC Magazine

May 12, 2021 by Stephen

On the visual side of the PCB, the MEG Z590 Ace is a bit of a mixed bag. Like its predecessor, the Z590 Ace is predominantly black with shades of gray mixed in. The gray is so dark as to look black in most PC-case environs, whereas the MEG Z490 Ace’s lighter shades of gray showed more contrast with the black parts of that motherboard.
MSI compensates for this more somber tone by adding more RGB LEDs and by moving its signature dragon logo from the chipset heatsink to the rear I/O shroud. Overall, I think the lighting is a step up, but I wish the designers had kept the more noticeable mixture of gray shades on the heatsinks.

ASRock Z590 Taichi – Tom’s Hardware

May 12, 2021 by Stephen

The Z590 Taichi is a nice improvement over the previous Taichi, between the improved appearance and cool moving gear feature, it is one of the better-looking Z590 boards. But looks aren’t everything. The Taichi comes with two Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports (40 Gbps), eight SATA ports, Killer-based Wi-Fi 6E and 2.5 GbE, and a graphics card support bar. We’ll check out these details and other features below. But first, here are the full specs from ASRock.

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO – GinjFo

May 12, 2021 by Stephen

Its price positioning is consistent with the key to a leading mechanism in order to optimize its configuration down to the smallest detail. Her dress is worked through a solid passive cooling. It attacks the Z590 chipset, VRMs or even various M.2 SSDs. We also find a nicely distributed RGB and a racy overall look.
In use, the performance is there with a full UEFI BIOS. Asus also offers several “in-house” technologies to simplify its configuration and the implementation of optimization. For example, AI Overclocking proposes to automatically and intelligently boost the processor through an analysis of various parameters including the performance of the processor cooling system.

GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS MASTER – GreenTech_Reviews

May 12, 2021 by Stephen

Some manufacturers, when developing motherboards based on the Intel Z490 chipset, have provided support for one of the most important innovations of the 11th generation processors – PCIe version 4.0. But it was impossible not to release the updated series of motherboards based on the Intel Z590 chipset for a number of reasons. If visually the Z590 AORUS Master practically does not differ from the Z490 AORUS Master (if you look closely, there are differences, but we are talking about the visual component), then inside the changes are very significant – especially the power subsystem and its cooling system. The first was noticeably strengthened, and the second received an active mode of operation.