At the high-end of the Intel Z590 range, the assortment of motherboards tend to offer similar feature-sets but the Taichi steps away from the crowd to offer up Thunderbolt 4 and we’re really impressed they decided to include this. This technology futureproofs the motherboard and gives access to 40 Gbps storage bandwidth. Taichi also delivers plenty of USB 3.2, up to three M.2 slots and of course PCIe 4.0 functionality (provided a Rocket Lake CPUs is being used).
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The delivery set, traditionally for these boards, is minimal – a user manual, a quality certificate, branded stickers on the battery, a disk with drivers, a pair of SATA cables and screws for fixing M.2 drives with gaskets for single-sided models. An external antenna for the pre-installed Intel Wi-Fi 6 module is located in a separate package.
The design of TUF motherboards varies from model to model. In our case, it is a black and gray color scheme with rare yellow accents. It is based on a 6-layer PCB that is very close to black. Changes are immediately noticeable regarding the number of expansion slots, the type of cooling for M.2 drives, the power subsystem and its cooling system.
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This Taichi is as always on a standard ATX format. Here we are therefore on the new Intel Z590 chipset which is based on the LGA1200 socket. The card is therefore not only compatible with 11th generation CPUs, but also with 10th generation CPUs such as i9-10900K or i5-10600K to name a few. Memory level, the card is able to manage up to 128 GB of DDR4 memory on four arrays at a frequency of 5000 MHz. At the level of the power supply stage, we find as the announcement the company 14 phases of power supplies Dr. Mos SPS (12 + 2 in reality) with Renesas ISL99390 of 90A.
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ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus WIFI has extremely solid hardware support for overclocking experiments (for example, a powerful power subsystem), but we already mentioned that the 11th generation CPU from Intel is extremely unfriendly towards aerial overclocking .
With the help of ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus WIFI, we were able to overclock the Core i5-11600K only up to 4800 MHz on all cores (this is a stable result). Fixing the reinforced concrete 5 GHz did not work even after fine-tuning the parameters described in the overclocking guide for Intel processors.
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This “Taichi” series, which was already present on previous generations, represents the top of the range of the ASRock brand on the Z590 chipset . Although we have officially learned of the arrival of an “OC Formula” version intended for overclockers. The “OC Formula” series ceased to exist on the mainstream socket after the Z170. With the arrival of the Z590 chipset and especially the Rocket Lake processors, several brands, such as Aorus, have decided to re-propose a unique model for overclokers. We will of course try to get our hands on a copy.
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Per a post over at the ASUS ROG Forums, ASUS is finally going to bring resizable BAR support to their Z370/Z390 product lines with an estimated timeframe of late April to early May. ASUS has been quite slow with the roll out relative to the competition leaving customers behind. It’s good to see some action from ASUS on this matter, so if you’re looking forward to this feature it may finally arrive in (relatively ) short order.
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Since the MSI MEG Z590 ACE is built on the most advanced Intel chipset, with no limitations and limits imposed on H / B chips, the motherboard’s capabilities automatically increase. The most important is the unhampered overclocking of the processor and setting any DDR4 memory dividers, reaching 5600 MHz in the described case. The manufacturer has also added a set of network systems in the form of Ethernet 2.5 Gb / s, Wi-Fi 802.11 AX and Bluetooth 5.2.
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To welcome the debut of Intel’s 11th generation Core processors, MSI launched the new MEG Z590 ACE gaming motherboard, which uses an 18-phase 90A power supply ultra-luxury power supply module, which fully meets the requirements of Intel Core i9-11900K. After ABT is activated, All-Cores maintain 5.1GHz Boost Clock , And supports up to DDR4-5600+ OC memory speed. This time I received the “Black Gold Limited Edition” from MSI, which bundled Intel Core i9-11900K CPU with MSI MEG Z590 ACE motherboard and MPG CoreLiqduid K360 water cooling. E-sports platform.
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At the time of this publication, the MSI MEG Z590 Ace motherboard is the only representative of the flagship MEG series. First of all, it is designed to work with Intel 11th generation processors, or more precisely, with flagships. Why is that? It’s simple – we have at our disposal a board not only with a rich set of slots, ports and interfaces, but also with a powerful power subsystem and a very efficient cooling system that operates in a completely passive mode.
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Our Intel Core i9-11900K struggles with stability once we exceed 5GHz on all cores, but Hero wasn’t able to achieve 5GHz across all cores – instead, we had to settle for 4.9GHz with substantial CPU voltage of 1.39v. This surprised us, cheaper boards managed to squeeze out higher frequency with less voltage.
ROG motherboards are never on the cheap side, so as expected, Hero sits at GBP £459 | USD $500 | AUD $800. This marks Hero as one of the more expensive models available. Is it worth it? From a performance standpoint, no. But, if you require the advanced features/ports and favour the design, then it is something to consider.
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