Intel X299 Motherboard Review Collection
The Gaming 9 is packed full of features, which is no surprise, the Gigabyte AORUS Gaming 9 is the company’s flagship motherboard. Of course, you get just about every extra you can think of. If you’re building a high-end workstation, gaming system, VR rig, or even just doing some extreme overclocking, then you’ll find everything you need built-in.
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The X299-E Gaming motherboard from ASUS is a high-end gaming motherboard, priced at around £300. That’s not cheap, but it’s about mid-range for the current crop of X299 boards that run up to £500 for the enthusiast models. Of course, it’s not exactly spartan on features at this price range, and you’ll find robust overclocking, RGB lighting, M.2 storage, and a whole lot more.
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The Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 we’ll review today is sitting in a what more affordable segmented product line and certainly is a good decent motherboard alright. On the next page a word on the processors and architecture, after which we’ll dive into a full photo-shoot with the Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3.
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The new X299 platform brings a number of new features and enhancements over the previous X99 platform. First and foremost is the ability to utilize the new Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X 4-18 core X series processors via the new LGA 2066 socket. There’s added support for Intel Optane technology with Rapid Storage, faster throughput times thanks to DMI 3.0. 30…
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Joining our X299 motherboard batch is the MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC. This motherboard continues the legacy of MSI’s CARBON series motherboard which features racing-inspired visual themes including carbon fiber touches as well as the dashing curves common on exotic cars.
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It’s a good-looking board whose white, silver and blue accents contrast well with the black base, and the various features dotted around the PCB reveal that even the more affordable X299 offerings are crammed with up-to-date tech.
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MSI has produced some great-looking motherboards over the years, and while the X299 SLI Plus isn’t up there with the very best, it’s still an attractive piece of kit. The black-and-silver colour scheme will suit a wide range of builds, and the VRM and PCH heatsinks are outfitted with ‘Mystic Light’ illumination allowing for a choice of colours or effects.
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We put the X299 Prime Deluxe from ASUS to the test. This motherboard in black and white accents with a small embedded LCD display is awesome looking . It’s not just about the looks though as the X299 motherboard can house Kaby-Lake-X and Skylake-X processors, but also is injected with a lot of extra features. We’ll test it with a Core i9 7900X.
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As seen from our visit at GIGABYTE’s showroom at COMPUTEX, we have the flagship gaming motherboard from GIGABYTE, the X299 AORUS GAMING 9 and it is one decked-out piece of kit intended for extreme gamers looking to take advantage of the core count and performance advantage of intel. Read on!
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The Prime X299-Deluxe carries forward the history Asus has of taking a bit of a kitchen-sink approach to the Deluxe-named offerings, equipping the board with dual Gigabit Ethernet and a dual-controller Wi-Fi solution that encapsulates 60GHz-band 802.11ad plus dual-band 802.11ac controllers.
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