Review of the motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3. Junior representative of the “gaming” series for Intel Kaby Lake-S processors

The model under consideration will be the first Gigabyte product in our laboratory since the announcement of the 200th series of chipsets. It has basic capabilities, of the additional controllers there is only ASM2142, which brings two latest-generation USB sockets to the rear panel, which means that today it will be possible to fully concentrate …

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MSI B360M Mortar Titanium motherboard review. Image product of the low-end category

With this material, we open a series of reviews of devices designed for desoldering inexpensive hubs designed for Intel Coffee Lake-S processors. A non-trivial model will act as the first participant. A special silvery shade of textolite clearly distinguishes it from a number of competitors, a kind of fashion step. There should not be any …

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ASRock Z490 PG Velocita motherboard review and testing. Experimenting with overclocking the Core i7-10700K

ASRock’s team of specialists never ceases to go for bold experiments, regularly equipping products with features that are not found in competitors. Rocket Lake-S processors are still in development, and here they have already provided a specialized M.2 port for the needs of high-speed SSDs with PCI Express 4.0 interface. It won’t work with current …

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ASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WiFi motherboard review and testing. Introducing the Intel B560 Chipset with the Core i7-10700K Processor

Together with the release of Rocket Lake-S processors to the market, developers from Intel proposed new chipsets of the “500th” series. Now boards based on the older Z590 solution are equipped with two CPU power sockets and an unprecedented power subsystem, since the appetites of computing units grow quite noticeably after forcing high power limits, …

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Review and testing of the Intel Celeron G5905 processor with doubled cache. Celeron that flies?

And this is not a plywood flight over Paris? Of course, this is still the cheapest and weakest solution for the LGA 1200 platform, but if you look back at the previous representatives of the Celeron family, you can see a very significant performance boost. Let’s consider the actual family in more detail. Processor Celeron …

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MSI Z170A MPower Gaming Titanium motherboard review. Platform for 2016 Intel Skylake-S processors

In fact, a year has passed since the appearance on the market of processors for the LGA1151 socket. By their announcement, MSI presented the Z170A Gaming M7 model, which can be attributed to the middle-end segment. Since then, there have been some changes in user expectations from modern motherboards, as a result, the developers decided …

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Review of the motherboard ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 7. The battle for the middle-end

Specialists from ASRock do not sit idly by and experiment with the model range of their motherboards without being tied to the release of new CPUs. Following the appearance of the Steel Legend series (several of these models have already become participants in our reviews), they began to improve the main gaming line of …

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ASUS ROG Strix H270F Gaming motherboard review. Meet the updated series of gaming products ROG Strix

The previous generation of LGA1151 motherboards from ASUS included several “gaming” models, which stood out among others with the Pro Gaming designation. Now, with the advent of a new galaxy of chipsets from Intel, the company’s specialists decided to separate such products into a separate segment, assigning them the designation ROG Strix. Nominally, they …

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ASUS ROG Strix H270I Gaming motherboard review. We evaluate the reduction of RAM delays as the only way to increase system performance

ASUS devices from the ROG Strix series appeared quite recently and rank below traditional ROG representatives like Maximus (if we talk about the Intel LGA 1151 platform). Conceptually, they are designed primarily for the category of enthusiasts who will not be content with regular boards (Prime series), but they also do not plan to …

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Review of the ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula motherboard based on the Intel Z390 chipset. Strict elegance

ASUS Formula motherboards have always stood apart from the rest of the solutions in the ROG Maximus series. Not inferior in their overclocking capabilities to the older products of the Extreme series, they have their own unique features. For example, a heat sink is installed on the power elements of the processor power converter …

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