INTEL CPU Eighteen months ago, eight cores was as good as it got for desktop CPUs. Not now. In this brave new post-AMD Ryzen world, it’s half as many cores as AMD now sells you in a single CPU. It’s not even half as many as Intel is planning by the end of 2017. The … Read more
GIGABYTE AORUS GAMING 5 WIFI Review – Gigabyte’s Aorus brand may not have the long standing reputation of Asus’ ROG brand, but they are making great strides towards building their own legacy. They typically strike a great blend of high end features without breaking the bank, something we see repeated here, with the Aorus Gaming … Read more
Asus TUF X470-Plus Gaming Review – There are plenty of premium X470 boards around already but, as Asus and Gigabyte have shown this month. The TUF X470-Plus Gaming is part of Asus’ aim to reinvent the TUF brand, which used to include the likes of the Sabertooth and Gryphon series, but now focuses on the … Read more
ASROCK FATALITY B360 GAMING K4 Review – ASROCK FATALITY B360 GAMING K4 Review – ASRock, perhaps undeservedly at times, has a reputation for being a value oriented brand. While there’s nothing wrong with that per se, it does a bit of a disservice to ASRock, which deserves credit for some outstanding products over the years as well as … Read more
MSI B350i Pro AC Review – An ITX Ryzen mobo, with a fantastic overclocking solution, and a kick-ass feature set, all on the B350 chipset. Wait, what? The understated brown PCB, the sub-high- end chipset, the simple, unsophisticated black heatsinks — it all mars an otherwise fantastic assembly of prime components designed to push the Ryzen … Read more
MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC Review – It’s fair to say that the first generation of Ryzen motherboards had its problems at launch. While most of these have since been ironed out, a second-generation chipset brings with it a certain level of reassurance. You just know that those little nips and tucks will make for a … Read more
ASRock Z370 Taichi Review – It’s becoming incredibly harder for motherboard manufacturers to differentiate their products. They all pay generally the same price for the Z370 chipset, as well as many of the components on the board, such as the audio system. So just how do you make your board stand out against the rest … Read more
ASUS PRIME Z370-A Review – As one of the more affordable boards in the roundup, the Prime Z370-A surprisingly doesn’t scrimp too much on its feature set. It’s certainly eye-catching, with the black PCB offset by a white I/O cover and silver heat-sinks. Like all of the boards reviewed here, this is an ATX board, and has the … Read more
Overclock Intel’s Non-K CPUs – YOU’LL NEED THIS Z170A MOTHERBOARD Sadly, non-K overclocking is only available on this particular chipset. You may also like: [display-posts category=”processor” posts_per_page=”5″] AN OLD BIOS FILE New Z170A boards ship with the overclock hack patched out, but the old files still exist at https://overclocking.guide/intel-skylake-non-k-overclocking-bios-list. ONCE UPON A TIME, Asrock did something … Read more
Intel Core I7-7700K Review – Zak Storey dips his toe in Kaby Lake to find out. Table of ContentsIntel Core I7-7700K Review: In brief…Intel Core I7-7700K Review: BENCHMARK BONANZAIntel Core I7-7700K Review: Verdict Intel Core I7-7700K Review: In brief… » Socket 1151 » Cache: 8MB » Type: 64-bit » SSE: 4.1/4.2. AVX 2.0 » Process: 14nm » Cores: … Read more
GIGABYTE’S NEW BRAND AIMS FOR MAXIMUM EVERYTHING The Aorus brand name has been around for approximately seven years, but few people know that this is actually an off-shoot of Gigabyte. We’ve been reminded time and again by Gigabyte to not associate the two brands, yet 2016 sees the two merge. Aorus is now the prime … Read more
ASRock Z270 Gaming K6 Review – We’re jumping from the most expensive board in the roundup to the most affordable, in the form of ASRock’s Z270 Gaming K6. As the name indicates, it’s still based on the best chipset in the 200 series, the Z270, yet ASRock has managed to bring the price down to a level … Read more