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ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming review - Introduction

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/19/2017 09:34 AM [ 4] 5 comment(s)

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ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming motherboard
That relatively affordable ROG mobo

ASUS released the c, it is time for a quick peek 'n review to see what this board offers. Armed with that ROG flavor it is a board that performs and looks nice. The motherboard has been fitted with the usual suspects, including a Gigabit based Ethernet jack and on that PCB you may house two M2 SSDs. Fairly standard for Z370 sure. But being an ROG board, it does offer some pretty sweet tweaking options hidden inside that BIOS. This more affordable ROG will get that 8700K well over 5.1 GHz, get ya sum 'o dat!

Coffee Lake are the new 8th generation desktop processors from Intel, including the new mainstream six-core part. A product line that is the direct answer and effect from what AMD has been pursuing aggressively in the desktop processor channel. With this first 'mainstream' step from intel they will offer 6-core processors. These will need to be paired with a new motherboard chipset and thus motherboard, the Z370 based ranges. With the introduction of Ryzen and more recently the announcement of Threadripper processors the processor market and channel has been turned up-side down, and Intel is slowly waking up from it's S3 deep-sleep state finally realizing that they cannot keep serving just quad-core processors in mainstream, as they have been doing for subsequent years now. AMD gave Intel a serious awakening call and as such they needed to step up, significantly. Intel’s primary processor business has been releasing and refreshing quad-core processors for many years combined with high-margin spicy priced E type (e.g. Broadwell-E / Haswell-E / Skylake-X) processor release every now and then. You can't really blame Intel either as there simply was no competition - hence they had no rush and have been relaxed all the way for years now. Intel did anticipate Zen (or Ryzen), but the AMD consumer aimed Threadripper 16-core and Naples server segment 32-core made Intel step up its game a notch as they shifted into a higher gear ever since Ryzen was released. Over the summer Skylake-X processors have been announced with limited releases and availability for the highest core count procs. Skylake-X however is available in good quantities at for the 10-cores ans 12-core parts, but these start ay 999 Euros for the 10-core version. There is a Intel Core i7-7800X hexa-core avai;able at the sub-400 Euro ranger though, but it needs to be tied towards an X299 motherboard, but these start at 350 euros. Ergo, AMD is outflanking Intel in any and every product segment price wise. This now changes with the Coffee Lake generation of processors that have up-to six-cores alongside more affordable Z370 motherboards.

In this review we look at the ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming. The board as stated is positioned in a mainstream to higher-end region and has that ROG stamp, stuff we like of course. Have a peek and then let's head onwards into the review my man.  

 




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