Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero WiFi Review – A little over a year ago, we were battling with some gremlins with various X370 boards, one of which was the Asus Crosshair VI Hero, until Asus released a spate of EFIs (as did other manufacturers) to improve memory support and stability. Fast forward to 2018, though, … Read more
While most of the gaming motherboards for the Intel 6th generation Core processor, aka the Intel Skylake, out there on the market right now is equipped mostly with the high end Intel Z170 chipset, some people do not really want all the features that are present in the chip. Some just want a no nonsense, … Read more
If you fancy having RGB lighting on your motherboard, but Asus‘ lighting-equipped offerings, such as the Maximus VIII Formula or Hero, aren’t quite in your price range, then MSI‘s new Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon might be just the ticket. Like MSI’s Z170 A XPower Gaming Titanium, the Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon has chrome-plated PCI-E slots, but … Read more
Core frills to add to the thrills. Afew Aorus motherboards have passed through the labs over recent issues, and this month, the Z270X-Gaming 8 joins the Gaming 9 at the top of Aorus’s Z270 stack. A few core features differentiate the two — namely the motherboard based CPU VRM watercooling solution, the networking setup, multiGPU … Read more
In recent months, we’ve reviewed a number of the high-end motherboards GIGABYTE released this summer, including the G A-Z170X-U11 ra Gaming, GA-X99-Ultra Gaming, and the GA-Z170X-Designaire. For those who haven’t kept up, the thing these boards all have in common is support for up-and-coming technology, such as devices that connect via U.2, USB 3.1 Type-C, … Read more
MSI Z370 Godlike Gaming Review – Coffee Lake perfection when coffee lake first launched, it’s fair to say we were fairly apprehensive of the azure juggernaut’s response to Ryzen. After all, it came out of the blue. Kaby Lake officially launched in January 2017, and a meager nine months later, we gained its hex-cored successor. And there … Read more
Old faithful AM4 motherboard made manifest Asus is a behemoth of a company, split into different divisions dealing with graphics, peripherals, monitors, mobile devices, and everything else, with divisions upon divisions upon divisions, each with the aim of producing and maintaining products aimed at its own target audience. Take the motherboard division, for example. Inside … Read more
Carbon fiber all the things. Gigabyte’s Gaming 5 series has generally always been the value king, but it might need to rethink its game plan with the likes of MSI dropping this sweet little number on to the AMD playing field. It may not have as clean a look as Gigabyte’s mighty Aorus lineup, but … Read more
Outstanding value for money This board is the perfect example of what an incredible value proposition Ryzen can be. Chuck this together with a R7 1700, overclock it to R7 1800X levels, and you’ve got a platform that will outperform an Intelbased system that will set you back. AMD has always been known for outstanding … Read more
LGA 2066 MOTHERBOARD 4/5 VERDICT The ROG Strix X299-E Gaming is a versatile and reasonably priced X299 motherboard, though it’s best served with Skylake-X ONCE AGAIN, WE have a new collection of CPUs that also demand a new motherboard. This time it’s Intel with its simultaneously released Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors, the shared LGA … Read more
Why, Asus? Why? We want to be kind to your products, honest we do, but with the current lack of innovation across your mid-range motherboard arsenal, it forces us into an unhappy position. Read our ASUS ROG Strix X470-F Gaming Review. What’s the problem? Well, it’s a simple one, but it comes down to what can … Read more
We have to hand it to Asus – they’ve designed a very aesthetically attractive board considering. Even better, they’ve managed to squeeze in the most expensive X370 chipset into a board at this price, which is simply astonishing value. Let’s dig deeper to see how they’ve managed to do so. Like many of Asus’ recent … Read more