Gigabyte has just announced another socket LGA2066 motherboard, the X299 Aorus Master. The "Master" brand extension is positioned below the flagship Aorus Extreme, which would make this board a successor to the X299 Aorus Gaming 7. This board gets a new design scheme that is in line with Gigabyte's Z390 motherboard offerings. Out of the box it has support for Core X 9000-series processors.
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, announced the release of the Z390 DESIGNARE motherboard with full support for the newest 8-core Intel Core i9-9900K processors.
With the launch of Intel's 9th Generation Core processors, including the Core i9-9900K, Intel has also introduced the Z390 chipset. Since Intel's official announcement we've already seen quite a lot of motherboards Z390 motherboards announced. Today we are taking a look at our first Z390 motherboard, which happens to be the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming SLI/ac. It sits right in the middle of ASRock's Phantom Gaming line and features a 10-phase power design, 2.5 Gigabit LAN, SLI and CrossFire support, and much more. Let's get this board on the test bench and see what it can do!
Today we are checking out the first MAG board from MSI, the MAG Z390 Tomahawk. This board has a very aggressive look which lends itself to gamers and MSI has added the pre-installed I/O shield as well. You are also going to get dual M.2 slots (one with an M.2 cooler), USB 3.1 support, dual Intel LAN, USB 3.1 gen 2, and of course RGB lighting. Read on to see if this is the Z390 board for you.
The new COLORFUL iGame Z390 Vulcan X joins the family of high-performance, gamer-inspired products of the COLORFUL iGame family. The new motherboard will support the latest Intel 9th-gen processors as well as 8th-gen processors in LGA1151 package.
ASUS is announcing a workstation motherboard for the Z390 chipset, it is the WS Z390 Pro. It of course has support for 8th generation Core processors, but the big thing with this board is that it makes use of a PCI-Express 3.0 x48 bridge chip.
Earlier this week Intel made their 9th generation processors and the Z390 chipset official. With that we are going to see a whole slew of new motherboards for Intel's latest mainstream platform. As of right now the embargo on the processors is still in effect, but we are able to tell you about the chipset, and more importantly the motherboards! Today we have a preview of the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming SLI/ac, which basically sits in the middle of the Phantom Gaming series. ASRock of course has moved their Phantom Gaming branding over from their graphics cards, so when you see Phantom Gaming you'll know it is ASRock's gaming brand. This board features a 10-phase power design, 2.5 Gigabit LAN, SLI and CrossFire support, and much more.
AMD launched their second generation Ryzen processor back in April and with that we got the new X470 chipset, which for one supports the new Ryzen processors right out of the gate and offers some new features like Extended Frequency Range 2 and Precision Boost 2. Just like the initial Ryzen launch the higher-end X470 motherboards came first, and now we have the budget-minded B450 boards. While we call these budget boards, they really offer quite a lot and you get pretty much the same feature-set you get with X470. If you are running a single graphics card and don't need an abundance of USB ports one of these boards might be perfect for you and the money you save can be used towards a better graphics card or NVMe solid state drive. Today we are checking out the very small MSI B450i Gaming Plus AC motherboard, which is a mini-ITX board. Is this board perfect for your next small form factor build? Read on as we find out!
When it comes to ASUS motherboards you have quite a lot of choices, many users opt for their Republic of Gamers boards, but their Prime line is actually quite good. We've used a "Prime" motherboard as our baseline board for processor testing for both Intel and AMD for the past couple of years. These boards might not have all of the flash that the ROG series does, but they are extremely reliable and are still packed with features. For the Ryzen refresh the main "Prime" board from ASUS is their Prime X470-PRO. This board features a slick design with silver heatsinks and an integrated M.2 cooler as well. You also have support for DDR4 3466 MHz memory, USB 3.1, dual M.2 slots, and even some RGB lighting. Is this the board you need for your Ryzen build? Read on as we find out!
When Intel released their 8th generation "Coffee Lake" processors back in October 2017 they were released alongside the enthusiast-class Z370 chipset. That was the only chipset you could use with these new processors at the time. Now you have the option of H370, B360, and H310. The B360 chipset differs from H370 in a few different ways, first you only have support for a single x16 PCI-E slot, only 12 PCI-E lanes (compared to 24), fewer USB ports, and there is no CPU or memory overclocking. Today we will be checking out a B360 board from Biostar. This is actually our first look at a B360 board, but also our first look at a board from Biostar. The Biostar B360GT3S motherboard is part of Biostar's Racing line, which is a gaming line within their product stack. Let's take a look and see if there is a lower-cost alternative to getting a Z370 motherboard.
