Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2020
Lamptron HM101 review
Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD 500 GB review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero review
Intel Core i9-10900K processor review
Intel Core i5-10600K processor review
ASRock Z490 Taichi review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Extreme review
MSI MEG Z490 ACE review
Z490 Aorus Master review
Review: ASRock X370 Gaming Professional Fatal1ty
For our next X370 review we look at the brilliant ASRock X370 Gaming Professional Fatal1ty. This enthusiast class line of Ryzen motherboard is not just stylish, it has 5 Gbps Ethernet, AC WIFI, dual M.2 slots and every feature you could wish for on the high-end Ryzen platform.
Read the full review here.
Review: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme 11G - 04/06/2017 06:24 PM
We review the flagship graphics card from Gigabyte in the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti series, the spectacular Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme 11G. This GTX 1080 Ti comes customized with an impressive cooler...
Review: MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium - 04/05/2017 08:27 AM
For our next X370 review we move on-wards to MSI with their grand X370 XPower Gaming Titanium. This top of the line Ryzen motherboard is stylish alright, wrapped in that Titanium look and feel the mot...
Review: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 6 - 04/03/2017 09:32 AM
We review the new Cooler Master MasterCasePro 6, a PC chassis that oozes features and style, but also was designed to mod and alter your chassis and transform it into something you value. The basics o...
Review: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ROG Strix OC (11GB) - 03/31/2017 01:10 PM
Join us as we review the all new ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ROG Strix 11GB. Not the engineering samples you have seen reviewed two weeks ago. This GeForce GTX 1080 Ti comes all customized with a brand ...
Review: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Frametime Analysis - 03/30/2017 12:10 PM
We check out and review the frame-pacing and frametimes with the all new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, will FCAT reveal some stuff we need to know? Read the article here. ...
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#5418495 Posted on: 04/10/2017 05:56 PM
This is a horrible design. If you use the M.2, which I would plan to use, this disables the last PCIe slot which if I plan to use two older GTX970's in SLI would leave me only 1 - 4X PCIE slot available. Since I would also like to use a PCIE tuner board and a PCIE sound card because any built in sound card no matter how good the caps are using software processing is pure crap. FAIL board.
This is a horrible design. If you use the M.2, which I would plan to use, this disables the last PCIe slot which if I plan to use two older GTX970's in SLI would leave me only 1 - 4X PCIE slot available. Since I would also like to use a PCIE tuner board and a PCIE sound card because any built in sound card no matter how good the caps are using software processing is pure crap. FAIL board.
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#5418504 Posted on: 04/10/2017 06:23 PM
How many people are planning to have four PCIe cards in use? Replace the two 970s with a single Pascal card.
This is a horrible design. If you use the M.2, which I would plan to use, this disables the last PCIe slot which if I plan to use two older GTX970's in SLI would leave me only 1 - 4X PCIE slot available. Since I would also like to use a PCIE tuner board and a PCIE sound card because any built in sound card no matter how good the caps are using software processing is pure crap. FAIL board.
How many people are planning to have four PCIe cards in use? Replace the two 970s with a single Pascal card.
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#5418519 Posted on: 04/10/2017 06:51 PM
Fan headers: these are important to anyone going with air in a case. Reviewers work on an open bench and often forget all about fans. I only see provision for about four fans, and the control characteristics available aren't described. Asus has been doing much better than this for at least ten years.
M.2 headers: I wonder why nobody yet stands these on edge, instead of flat. That would be a much better use of mobo space which is always at a premium. I think they would cool as well as (if not better than) flat.
Fan headers: these are important to anyone going with air in a case. Reviewers work on an open bench and often forget all about fans. I only see provision for about four fans, and the control characteristics available aren't described. Asus has been doing much better than this for at least ten years.
M.2 headers: I wonder why nobody yet stands these on edge, instead of flat. That would be a much better use of mobo space which is always at a premium. I think they would cool as well as (if not better than) flat.
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#5418531 Posted on: 04/10/2017 07:26 PM
I guess the flat orientation has been the default one because the M.2 have always(?) had the functionality of using a screw to fasten them to the mobo.
M.2 headers: I wonder why nobody yet stands these on edge, instead of flat. That would be a much better use of mobo space which is always at a premium. I think they would cool as well as (if not better than) flat.
I guess the flat orientation has been the default one because the M.2 have always(?) had the functionality of using a screw to fasten them to the mobo.
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I originally was looking at this one but settled on the Taichi in the end as I wasn't too bothered about the 5Gbit ethernet which was the main difference between the two as they both seem to have the same VRM setup and other features.