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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Overclocking and comparison of processors. Part I: AMD Solutions – Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 3, and FX-6100

For almost a year, processors of the Zen microarchitecture have been on the market, on which AMD has high hopes. Five years of development should have finally brought the company out of the position in which it found itself after the release of Intel’s Core family solutions. A timid attempt to rectify the situation back …

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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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ASRock X570S PG Riptide motherboard review and testing. History back

More than a year had passed since the introduction of products based on the AMD B550, and the market was in desperate need of updating the assortment. However, the company did not come up with anything new for the AM4 socket, and nevertheless, all manufacturers have already presented updated products based on the old-new X570 …

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ASUS TUF B450M-Pro Gaming motherboard review. Filling in the rows

The first wave of ASUS motherboards, built using a mid-range hub for Ryzen processors, did not pose a threat to more serious and expensive products. The TUF Gaming family included products with the Plus index, while more “charged” devices came out a little later, they contain the “Pro” suffix. The younger model, reduced in size …

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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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SteelSeries Sensei 310 gaming mouse review

After the not-so-successful global debut of the Sensei Wireless mouse in 2014, many fans of the brand may have had the feeling that the company has decided to completely abandon this once-successful line. And the lull that followed for three years only confirmed this idea. However, at the beginning of August 2017, SteelSeries announced that …

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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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ASRock Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard review. Overclocking the Core i5-8600K on a mini-ITX device

ASRock’s product range cannot be called modest, but compared to its competitors, the number of solutions it has is much less. Perhaps, thanks to this, it is still possible to maintain their intelligible positioning in the composition of the lines, and models of miniature dimensions make up a small representation there, therefore each board turns …

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