Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming Motherboard LGA1151 review
Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming Motherboard LGA1151 review
FORGreat efficiency
Great software
Good overclocking
DDR 4000MT/s OC capable
Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi
Ample fan headers
Good USB provision
Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi
Ample fan headers
Good USB provision
AGAINST
Slight feature/price disadvantage
Doesn't stand out in any one particular way
Only one onboard RGB lighting zone.
Benchmark Settings
Synthetic Benchmarks & Settings
PCMark 8
Version 2.7.613Home, Creative, Work, Storage, Applications (Adobe & Microsoft)
3DMark 13
Version 4.47.597.0Skydiver, Firestrike, Firestrike Extreme Default Presets
SiSoftware Sandra
Version 2016.03.22.21CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth
DiskSPD
4K Random Read, 4K Random Write128K Sequential Read, 128K Sequential Write
Cinebench R15
Build RC83328DEMOOpenGL Benchmark
CompuBench
Version 1.5.8Face Detection, Optical Flow, Ocean Surface, Ray Tracing
Application Tests & Settings
LAME MP3
Version 3.98.3Mixed 271MB WAV to mp3: Command: -b 160 --nores (160Kb/s)
HandBrake CLI
Version: 0.9.9Sintel Open Movie Project: 4.19GB 4K mkv to x265 mp4
Blender
Version 2.68aBMW 27 CPU Render Benchmark, BMW 27 GPU Render Benchmark
7-Zip
Version 16.02THG-Workload (7.6GB) to .7z, command line switches "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=9"
Adobe After Effects CC
Release 2015.3.0, Version 13.8.0.144PCMark-driven routine
Adobe Photoshop CC
Release 2015.5.0, 20160603.r.88 x64PCMark-driven routine (light and heavy)
Adobe InDesign CC
Release 2015.4, Build 11.4.0.90 x64PCMark-driven routine
Adobe Illustrator
Release 2015.3.0, Version 20.0.0 (64-bit)PCMark-driven routine
Game Tests & Settings
Ashes of the Singularity
Version 1.31.21360High Preset - 1920 x 1080, Mid Shadow Quality, 1x MSAACrazy Preset - 1920 x 1080, High Shadow Quality, 2x MSAA
F1 2015
2015 Season, Abu Dhabi track, RainMedium Preset, no AFUltra High Preset, 16x AF
Metro: Last Light Redux
Version 3.00 x64High Quality, 1920 x 1080, High Tesselation, 16x AFVery High Quality, 1920 x 1080, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF
The Talos Principle
Version 267252Medium Preset, High Quality, High Tesselation, 4x AFUltra Preset, Very High Quality, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF .
buried inside this case here is the Seuss's ed 390 Strix II is their other interesting kind of gaming motherboard as they brand and actually fairly highly priced for being part of their strikes lane of if you're new to the Asus kind of motherboard lineup generally speaking there are G specific branded board or Republic of gamers are their highest and most feature packed boards and then they have their Strix lineup which is they slightly cut down but generally still
pretty great lineup of motherboards with generally a little lower price tag skill with it to give you a quick rundown of the board we obviously have support for in South ninth and 8th gen CPUs including the 9900 K which is a bit of a power hog low we'll talk about that in a second you obviously still have the same 1151 socket in the center for ddr4 random slaws and actually 2 m dot 2 slots both of which are heat sinks one of them is just below the chipset and is a
hundred and ten millimeter slot whereas the top one is the more standard 80 millimeter slot that the majority of your own up to SSDs would fit in just fine next thing I'll go to starts we have two x16 sized slots the top one is full x16 electrically and go straight to the CPU the middle one goes to the CPU as well otherwise x8 electrically and if you're running them together so if you're running two graphics cards in them for example and they'll be running in x8 and x8
each and then the bottom slot is while it's x16 in size it's not a reinforced slot and it's only x4 electrically and goes through the chips there along with basically everything else on the board including both of the m2 slot that does mean that both the m2 starts our bandwidth constricted so bear that in mind if you're planning on picking up any is at 390 board if you're using multiple m dot 2 slots and anything else then some of the PCIe slots will turn off for example
because they're through PCIe switches and otherwise the rest of them will be fairly bandwidth limited if you're hitting your end up tubes pretty hard I put the top left hand corner of the board you have a single 8 pin power connector which is just fine even for a 900 K and then you have a bracket that is essentially meant to be used for the included I guess 80-odd mill fan to give better airflow over the VRMs we'll talk more about the Veyrons in a second but suffice to
say it's a pretty impressive configuration in terms of the rest of the stuff that's on the board you have a USB type-c front panel header a thunderbolt connector down the bottom and two standard RGB connectors as well as one addressable RGB connector just below the SATA ports you have six SATA ports yoseob's so you use your USB 2 and USB 3 pump and hammers down the bottom you also have the supreme effects audio setup which is actually pretty nice as well
where they filled 7.1 audio with s/pdif on the back and what we're talking about the back you also have a couple of display outputs you have Gigabit Ethernet you have CM VI Wi-Fi built-in which is nice to see you also have USB to USB 3 USB type-c and a ps2 most combo port as well if you need one now as I said this port supports Intel's in length Gen 19 900k but can it handle it whilst I said the V RMS up is pretty great so the overall answer is yes I don't have any information from Asus here so I'm just going off what's on the board and research and the
components but basically the controller you they're using is a digi+ vrm ASP 1400 CTB which is as far as I'm aware a rebranded ir35 201 or 35 2 or 3 either way that means that it's an 8 a channel can set up with the PWM to the MOSFETs and those MOSFETs there's a total of 10 of them in what looks to be an 8 + 2 although I believe that's a double date + 2 so I believe it's something along the lines of 4 plus 2 actual but then a 8 + 2 kind of final result but either way that is the setup the the MOSFETs that using our mCP 3 o 2 O 4 5 which are high and low side
MOSFETs together and those can do 45 amps each which means that this is a pretty impressive setup there what does all of that mean for real-world testing with a 19 900k I saw basically no increase in temperature on the V RMS even when hitting the neuralgic a full load at full stock boost and of course that you can obviously overclock pretty well on the board and in terms of temperatures I think the maximum the vrm set was about 50 degrees Celsius which is nothing 4 V RMS and that's without the fan installs so if you really wanted to push in an 800 K you could do and I think you do pretty well with that speaking of overclocking this bore actually has a
pretty interesting feature that none of the they're kind of competitors on the market have and that is a Seuss's new AI overclocking feature this is something that appears on the side the sidebar if you like where you normally see you know your CPU frequency and temperature and memory frequency and stuff but you know have a little prediction window so there's a couple of things I want to explain here first of all the SI L is effectively your silicon quality so it's estimating how good of an overclocker your chip will be the higher the percentage the better
the overclock are the chip is supposedly that's not necessarily a kind of guarantee that if you have a 95 or 100% kind of SI L chip then you're gonna get you know a million gamers it just means that your chip is more likely to be happier to overclock you also have a cooler point score that is essentially just how well your cooler can do at cooling your CPU and that is something that the the system or the nother board learns from as you load up the CPU no set of stuff so in theory putting a bear a cooler gets you a better score means the system will be able to
auto overclock your cpu even more now you do have to go in and manually set it to auto overclock your cpu if you want that you put AI optimized in the overclocking settings and then it will do it all for you but it's actually a pretty good and pretty stable overall setup which is actually quite nice to see the rest of the BIOS is fairly standard it's the usual sort of menu system interface and it really isn't much change to your besides that ai overclocking feature so supposed to say it's not as user friendly as MSI's but it's a little bit easier to get to things like
overclocking and then or you know people that get your vice but it's so a decent user experience although not the most friendly thing in the world so the roundup here is that this is an expensive motherboard it's selling at the time of reviewing in the UK which makes it a well pretty expensive board the gigabyte is at 390 master board which is one of their highest and fact I think it is their highest and Zed 390 board is only more and that does have a good number more features and well the vrm setup isn't necessarily you know
worse on this that one is slightly better so if you're going for some extreme overclocking that one does have a few extra fee a few kind of details that might be a little bit better for you but um overall it's it's definitely expensive especially if you're being a Strix Board but it does have a few features to back that up with the IAI overclocking and mostly a great vrm setup and some nice overall connectivity too you still do have the problems of as I said that bandwidth limitation when it comes to say your render to slots and stuff like that as not only do your
MDOT twos and you know your lower PCIe slots but also all of your iOS all of the Wi-Fi all of your Gigabit Ethernet your USB ports to your thunderballs all of that goes through the chipset as well which means that you're gonna be limiting your MDOT who's basically whatever you do if you're using multiple or even just one high-end one in here so do you bear that in mind but otherwise if you're looking for a Zedd 390 board and especially if you do want to stick on
the su side of things then this is a really nice option if a big expense would I put this on my desk and probably it's a nice board it's a little bit lacking in i/o in terms of USB ports that tend to use a fair number of them but overall I'm pretty happy with it I'd be fairly happy to recommend it if you're looking for a Xan 390 board and yeah it's just generally pretty good so with that said I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below is this a board you're interested
in are you interested in the serenade master more because it's not that much more expensive or is you know you just no interested in side through 90 in general you're sticking with your new rising CPU for example I mean one that comes down below if you want to buy one of these boards or to check your pricing when and where you wash this then take a look at the link in the description down below where you can check that out you can also check out the rest of the
links down there too .
The STRIX series is usually ASUS version of a more fun, enthusiastic, better-looking motherboard, yet on a budget. And two weeks ago I had reviewed the prime Z 390-A, it's entry-level. And we saw a lot of cool improvement but but but with the Republic of Gamers STRIX Z390-E, we have even more for our money. So without any further ado, let's take a closer look to this better-looking motherboard. (Sigh) INTRO PLAYING Alright, so this is not my first STRIX and I absolutely love reviewing them because this is opportunity for Asus to, as I said
earlier, trying to balance really cool gaming features and budget and there's also a few things that are not on the entry level such as thunderbolt and stuff like that but we have on the other hand more focused aesthetical and gaming friendly features so starting with the obvious we have here an ATX motherboard which is thirty point five centimeter long for twenty four point four centimeter wide. As usual it is powered by an LGA 1151 socket which will support both
the 8th generation of iCore Intel processor as well as its 9th generation. I usually do not mention the VRMs but in this case because the ninth generation of Intel processors needs a considerable more amount of energy than its previous generation, we have more beefy VRMs and that of course means more heat and potentially overheating and that is why Asus as provided, in the package with this motherboard, a little fan and fan bracket which will move
air-flow little bit faster and try to keep this overheating at bay. Memory wise we have the usual dual channel configuration which can support up to 64 gigabyte of ddr4 Ram overclockable up to 4.266 megahertz, which by the way is 266 megahertz more than its previous generation: the Z370 powered motherboard. So kudos to Asus for that. But note as well that there are rumors in market that the Z390 chipset can support up to 128 gigabyte of ddr4 Ram with 32 gigabyte
sticks so let's see what's gonna happen in the next weeks and months but that might be a BIOS update which will allow this motherboard to support up to 128 gigabytes of ddr4 ram in dual channel. Let's see. Staying in the memory this board can support up to 2 m.2 solid-state drive. One 11 cm long and 1, 8 centimeter long. So here I want to take a second to mention the fact that now the M.2 Solid State drive's heat shield and the chipset each shield, are two separated
component which is an improvement compared to the previous generations of motherboards such as Z370, Z270, Z170 etc and that seems like a small detail but it has its importance. In the past, heat coming from the M.2 Solid State drive would be easily conducted toward the chipset and thermo-throttling would be an overall issue or an overall design issue on the motherboard. So yes, it looks like a small change but it has its importance. As for the previous two generation
of chipset the Z390 is Optane ready, meaning that our M.2 Solid State drives can both swap up to 32 gigabit per second. And as I mentioned before that also means serious heating and possible thermal throttling, and that is why both of our M.2 Solid State drives heat-shields are equipped with thermo-pads. So moving upward, we have six third-generation PCIe expresses. Three single BUS speed, single slot, and three 16 slots with different speeds. As usual only the closest 16 slot to the CPU can provide up to 16 full BUS speed so if you have only one GPU to
operate this is where you want it to be for optimal performances. If you are going for a two way GPU configuration, the two first 16 slot PCI Express will be sharing their bandwidth and we will have a 8x8 BUS configuration. And in the case you are going to use those three 16 slots there will be all sharing the same bus speed and we will have an 8 by 4 by 4 configuration. And because those 16 PCI slots are most likely to carry the heavy weight of our video cards, they
have been metallically reinforced as well. SATA wise we have our usual six SATA 3.0 plugs which can all transfer up to six gigabit per second. I/O wise, I want to note that the i/o shield is integrated onto the motherboard and that's again something I love seeing. Asus started to do this with their Z270 Maximus series a couple years ago and, as I used to say back then and I keep saying right now, something I want to see more often. It's a real improvement. Saves you
time, makes it more airtight. It's just an overall win-win so kudos to Asus to start with this. We have a mouse keyboard ps/2 connector, two second generation USB plugs which can transfer data up to 480 megabits per second, four 3.1 second generation USB intake, three of them type A and 1 type C, which can all transfer that up to 10 gigabit per second, and that is one of the very few improvement we can notice coming from the Z370 to the Z390 chipset. We have more 3.1 second generation USB nested into the chipset which allows us to have more than, you
know, the usual 2 second generation 3.1. We can actually have up to 6 of them in this motherboard and that is something which is quite a lifesaver for like video editing people like me, or even big gamers who have to swap data from a hard disk to an hard disk or USB or whatever. So kudos to Intel / ASUS for this one. We have - 3.1 first-generation USB plugs which can transfer data up to five gigabit per second, our usual Display and HDMI output, our Intel
wireless AC 9560 which can transfer data up to 1.3 gigabit per second and again this is the second main improvement that you will see coming from the Z370 chipset to the Z390 chipset. We have a wireless adapter nested in there, which will allow multiple manufacturers to, more easily and more affordably, add Wi-Fi adapter without adding their dedicated third-party when a wireless chip set in there so again kudos. So not many improvement chipset wise but
definitely good ones. Our surge protected Gigabit LAN and finally our usual five channel plus optical output. Alright, so time to take a closer look to our onboard connectors. So we have two second-generation front panel USB connectors right here which can both transfer that up to 480 megabits per second. One 3.1 first-generation front panel USB connector right here which can transfer data up to five gigabit per second and a 3.1 second generation front panel type-c
connector which can transfer that up to ten gigabit per second. Again a consequence of our chipset upgrade. So far, pretty good. It looks like a very nicely done design and complete motherboard, but of course, as you know my favorite part of the review is the enthusiastic slash aesthetic part of it. And Asus, as usual, tend to pay more attention to their STRIX series when it comes to looks and gaming aspect so in our case we have seven fan connectors. two of which
are also water pump connectors, so if you are looking for a single or dual custom water cooling system these little motherboards, will have everything you need to make it happen. It also have one external thermal connector sensor for accurate thermal monitoring. Now aesthetically wise I am in love. It has the very same PCB board that the Prime series is using right so the one I reviewed two weeks ago the same components mainly but I have to say the design printed on
the board and the overall look and feel of it is absolutely gorgeous I mean that is a question of taste and I absolutely love it one thing we need to note here is that this board is all right compliant if you do not know the aura synced lighting effect then you should read the review I've done about that a couple years ago and in a nutshell the aura sink effect will you know sync all the RGB of your different aura compliant opponents in your build so that they can all do like cool synchronous effect together and on this particular board we have a very nice
AURA/OLED strip hidden and there's our roof and it looks absolutely gorgeous and what Asus tries to do usually is to add more than one strip maybe two or even three integrating into the board but I'm kind of happy that they just went for one good quality good looking or a strip where it should be now if that is not enough we also have two more or a complaint an RGB connector here and here and unlike the entry-level we have an addressable or rack compliant
RGB connector right there and you know that is something I complained about two weeks ago and I was reviewing the Arime Z390 or the absence of an addressable RGB connector so very happy and kudos to Asus for putting it on they're more enthusiastic friendly gamer board all right so this is conclusion time and the ROG STRIX Z390-E which is not cheap but I'll also say that Asus has definitely shown a more detailed approach and a more focused attention unto the performance of this board and that start with
vrm hitting which are definitely bigger and higher than the one available on the PRIME Z390-A. It also shows when you have a second M.2 solid-state drive heat-sync which a thermal pad on the other side and for the first one it has been separated from the chip set hit sync and finally we have this included fan and fan bracket to be installed on our VRM if needed so a real worry coming from Asus to keep this board as cool and performant as possible even if you are going to push it to its extreme limits on top of it all of course you have a premium build a premium
motherboard which looks amazingly good the aura sync effect has not looked as good on this board at this price point of that is my personal opinion we have everything you need to put you know addressable or classical or export on it as well and I have nothing bad to say about it but that's always about the Z390 chipset which powers this motherboard is so identical give or take a couple of details it's so identical to its predecessor the Z370 chipset that I don't see how you'd warrant an upgrade and dropping another mony this report both the same processors I
mean one can argue that because of the vrm if you use a ninth generation ichor Intel processor on the Z370 chipset you lose some 10-15 percent performances but even in this case I still don't see you know why you'd have to do that expenditure so as far as I go even though this is an amazing product an amazing motherboard if you have a Z370 chipset I wouldn't upgrade it but
if you don't if you have something previous to Z370 chipset to go for it this is the best bang for your buck the best motherboard which can range anything from casual gaming to extreme workstation load and something who can last you a long long time you know the best performance driven design I have seen in a long long time as well .
about Z 390 and I'm finally allowed to show you said 390 boards I've had these boards and they've been in the background of the videos for a while on the main OT 3d channel but what we're going to do is we do have the the main board here and I've kept the little fan separate so there's some what I want to show you with that well have a look at the accessories just quickly first that you can get an idea of what you're gonna get in the box so you get the card saying
welcome to the Republic you get a sticker pack these go on your fans these go on your cables or separate them out you can put this on a coaster to make your own rock coaster and you've got some other bits and boobs over this happy not feel boobs you get a voucher for money off cable mod cables and then your driver CD and the manual and then underneath but in the packaging you can actually see that they've added some extra detail onto the packaging in the actual
packaging yourself you get let's have a look how many in total that you get you get four SATA cables you get I believe there are yeah these are both RGB extended cables one to four pin normal extension cable one to three pin addressable extension cable then you also get a I think this might be from one of the other boxes and I've made a boo-boo but this is a temperature pay but I think this might come from the hero box that's my fault but it's because I've been trying to rush and to do too many you do get your Wi-Fi Bluetooth antenna so yeah and this screws
onto the back and you can put it onto the back of your case if you want you get some zip ties you get a sli bridge and you get your door hanger should you want to use and then you get all the the screws for your MDOT two's but you don't get that people do still say to me about this and I've seen it in the past people saying I didn't get the screws to screw the motherboard into the case well you won't if they don't supply those the screws for the case come with the case
anyway ok so our first broad look at the board what I want to do though is I want to draw your attention to this up in the top left hand corner and this is a fan mount and I'm going to move the ball around so that you can see where it goes now what Asus say that you should do if you want to mount the little fan is pull this up here and then mount the fan like that and then that brings it out over the IO shield and like it blows pretty much directly down on the fan but
something I noticed which is something I think you guys might like more there you will still have to raise it up so that you can screw it all in but something I actually liked the look of more was mounting it that way around and that is so you can see that you get a bit more surface area so rather than it being square and over here like that you mount it the other way around so this side and this side mounted and then the other to go over that now I'm not a fan of using fans
like this on the board anyway if you were going to use it and it didn't mess up with your the clearance on your heatsink or anything then this is probably the way that I would go with it comes with a three pin cable anyway rest of the things talked about on the board we will work our way around so eight pin top left-hand corner then you've got your CPU optional and your CPU fan header here then you've got four pin RGB header up on the top then this is the memo
case which come down you can see your boot lights or your post light so you've got CPU at the bottom then dram then VGA and then boot and these all change color so if they stop on something you know what you're having issues with during your post or boot cycle obviously the power external USB 3.1 six satyrs that little tab there is actually fabric by the way no I'll G be on the chipset and you've got three fan headers down the side here actually I do apologize
CT sensor thermal sensor so the thermal sensor that I said to you about before does come with the strips this is a hundred and up to 110 millimeter and then this one up here it's up to you eighteen but you can use a SATA and up to you on there if you like then you should go down the bottom you can see USB three two USB 2 s external fan header this is something that you're going to need to get used to see on an Asus boards now this is the Asus note they've got their
own proprietary header where you're going to see products coming out that's going to plug into that another RGB headed down here supreme FX audio and then on this side you can see your Wi-Fi Gigabit Ethernet HDMI display port USB USB type-c you can also see this is SS 10 so SuperSpeed 10 so that's USB gin USB 3 Gen 2 and these ones down inlets see that two speeds that's gin - this is just Gen 1 so and one of the things I did want to show you and this is only
meant to be a quick video but I do have the ability to be able to show you the lights because I've got a magic cable that allows me not to power the board up in a way that would mean breaking the NBA but it means I can power the board up so that I can just show you the lights so you've got the RGB section through the rock I now this is acrylic and it's etched and because it's etched it means it catches the light and if I'm honest I really really like it so it's up to you
obviously with the RGB you can easily turn it off but I think that's fairly effective I say it with all of this tricks boards I do think it's a shame there's not anything down on the chipset itself but still this is our first look at the rogue strips Zed 390 motherboard please check out a 3d TV for more we've got the extreme the formula the ITX board and the gene to show you and we've also got the hero that you can see in the background on rush kit as well so lots and lots of reviews for you to have a look at .
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Only one onboard RGB lighting zone.
Specifications
Socket
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LGA 1151
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Chipset
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Intel Z390
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Form Factor
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ATX
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Voltage Regulator
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10 Phases*
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Video Ports
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DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4
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USB Ports
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10 Gbps: (1) Type-C, (3) Type A5Gb/s: (4) Type A, (2) USB 2.0
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Network Jacks
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(1) Gigabit Ethernet, (2) Wi-Fi Antenna
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Audio Jacks
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(5) Analog, (1) Digital Out
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Legacy Ports/Jacks
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(1) PS/2
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Other Ports/Jack
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✗
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PCIe x16
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(3) v3.0 ( x16/x0/x2*, x8/x8/x2*, x8/x8/x4*)(*Two lanes shared
w/SATA 5-6)
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PCIe x8
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✗
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PCIe x4
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✗
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PCIe x1
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(3) v3.0
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CrossFire/SLI
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3x / 2x
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DIMM slots
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(4) DDR4
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M.2 slots
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(1) PCIe 3.0 x4 / SATA*, (1) PCIe 3.0 x4(*Consumes SATA port 2)
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U.2 Ports
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✗
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SATA Ports
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(6) 6Gb/s (Port 2 shared w/SATA M.2, 5-6 w/PCIe x16-3)
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USB Headers
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(1) 10Gb/s Gen2, (1) v3.0, (2) v2.0(Consumes PCIe x1 slots 2/4)
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Fan Headers
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(7) 4-Pin, (1) Asus Fan Extension Card
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Legacy Interfaces
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Serial Com Port, System (Beep-code) Speaker
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Other Interfaces
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FP-Audio, (2) RGB-LED, Asus NODE, TPM, Thermistor, (1) D-LED
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Diagnostics Panel
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✗
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Internal Button/Switch
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✗ / MemOK
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SATA Controllers
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Integrated (0/1/5/10)
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Ethernet Controllers
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WGI219V PHY
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Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
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Intel 9560 802.11ac 2x2 (1.73Gb/s) / BT 5 Combo
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USB Controllers
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✗
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HD Audio Codec
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ALC1220
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DDL/DTS Connect
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✗
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Synthetic Benchmarks & Settings
PCMark 8
Version 2.7.613Home, Creative, Work, Storage, Applications (Adobe & Microsoft)
3DMark 13
Version 4.47.597.0Skydiver, Firestrike, Firestrike Extreme Default Presets
SiSoftware Sandra
Version 2016.03.22.21CPU Arithmetic, Multimedia, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth
DiskSPD
4K Random Read, 4K Random Write128K Sequential Read, 128K Sequential Write
Cinebench R15
Build RC83328DEMOOpenGL Benchmark
CompuBench
Version 1.5.8Face Detection, Optical Flow, Ocean Surface, Ray Tracing
Application Tests & Settings
LAME MP3
Version 3.98.3Mixed 271MB WAV to mp3: Command: -b 160 --nores (160Kb/s)
HandBrake CLI
Version: 0.9.9Sintel Open Movie Project: 4.19GB 4K mkv to x265 mp4
Blender
Version 2.68aBMW 27 CPU Render Benchmark, BMW 27 GPU Render Benchmark
7-Zip
Version 16.02THG-Workload (7.6GB) to .7z, command line switches "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=9"
Adobe After Effects CC
Release 2015.3.0, Version 13.8.0.144PCMark-driven routine
Adobe Photoshop CC
Release 2015.5.0, 20160603.r.88 x64PCMark-driven routine (light and heavy)
Adobe InDesign CC
Release 2015.4, Build 11.4.0.90 x64PCMark-driven routine
Adobe Illustrator
Release 2015.3.0, Version 20.0.0 (64-bit)PCMark-driven routine
Game Tests & Settings
Ashes of the Singularity
Version 1.31.21360High Preset - 1920 x 1080, Mid Shadow Quality, 1x MSAACrazy Preset - 1920 x 1080, High Shadow Quality, 2x MSAA
F1 2015
2015 Season, Abu Dhabi track, RainMedium Preset, no AFUltra High Preset, 16x AF
Metro: Last Light Redux
Version 3.00 x64High Quality, 1920 x 1080, High Tesselation, 16x AFVery High Quality, 1920 x 1080, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF
The Talos Principle
Version 267252Medium Preset, High Quality, High Tesselation, 4x AFUltra Preset, Very High Quality, Very High Tesselation, 16x AF .
buried inside this case here is the Seuss's ed 390 Strix II is their other interesting kind of gaming motherboard as they brand and actually fairly highly priced for being part of their strikes lane of if you're new to the Asus kind of motherboard lineup generally speaking there are G specific branded board or Republic of gamers are their highest and most feature packed boards and then they have their Strix lineup which is they slightly cut down but generally still pretty great lineup of motherboards with generally a little lower price tag skill with it to give you a quick rundown of the board we obviously have support for in South ninth and 8th gen CPUs including the 9900 K which is a bit of a power hog low we'll talk about that in a second you obviously still have the same 1151 socket in the center for ddr4 random slaws and actually 2 m dot 2 slots both of which are heat sinks one of them is just below the chipset and is a
hundred and ten millimeter slot whereas the top one is the more standard 80 millimeter slot that the majority of your own up to SSDs would fit in just fine next thing I'll go to starts we have two x16 sized slots the top one is full x16 electrically and go straight to the CPU the middle one goes to the CPU as well otherwise x8 electrically and if you're running them together so if you're running two graphics cards in them for example and they'll be running in x8 and x8
each and then the bottom slot is while it's x16 in size it's not a reinforced slot and it's only x4 electrically and goes through the chips there along with basically everything else on the board including both of the m2 slot that does mean that both the m2 starts our bandwidth constricted so bear that in mind if you're planning on picking up any is at 390 board if you're using multiple m dot 2 slots and anything else then some of the PCIe slots will turn off for example
because they're through PCIe switches and otherwise the rest of them will be fairly bandwidth limited if you're hitting your end up tubes pretty hard I put the top left hand corner of the board you have a single 8 pin power connector which is just fine even for a 900 K and then you have a bracket that is essentially meant to be used for the included I guess 80-odd mill fan to give better airflow over the VRMs we'll talk more about the Veyrons in a second but suffice to
say it's a pretty impressive configuration in terms of the rest of the stuff that's on the board you have a USB type-c front panel header a thunderbolt connector down the bottom and two standard RGB connectors as well as one addressable RGB connector just below the SATA ports you have six SATA ports yoseob's so you use your USB 2 and USB 3 pump and hammers down the bottom you also have the supreme effects audio setup which is actually pretty nice as well
where they filled 7.1 audio with s/pdif on the back and what we're talking about the back you also have a couple of display outputs you have Gigabit Ethernet you have CM VI Wi-Fi built-in which is nice to see you also have USB to USB 3 USB type-c and a ps2 most combo port as well if you need one now as I said this port supports Intel's in length Gen 19 900k but can it handle it whilst I said the V RMS up is pretty great so the overall answer is yes I don't have any information from Asus here so I'm just going off what's on the board and research and the
components but basically the controller you they're using is a digi+ vrm ASP 1400 CTB which is as far as I'm aware a rebranded ir35 201 or 35 2 or 3 either way that means that it's an 8 a channel can set up with the PWM to the MOSFETs and those MOSFETs there's a total of 10 of them in what looks to be an 8 + 2 although I believe that's a double date + 2 so I believe it's something along the lines of 4 plus 2 actual but then a 8 + 2 kind of final result but either way that is the setup the the MOSFETs that using our mCP 3 o 2 O 4 5 which are high and low side
MOSFETs together and those can do 45 amps each which means that this is a pretty impressive setup there what does all of that mean for real-world testing with a 19 900k I saw basically no increase in temperature on the V RMS even when hitting the neuralgic a full load at full stock boost and of course that you can obviously overclock pretty well on the board and in terms of temperatures I think the maximum the vrm set was about 50 degrees Celsius which is nothing 4 V RMS and that's without the fan installs so if you really wanted to push in an 800 K you could do and I think you do pretty well with that speaking of overclocking this bore actually has a
pretty interesting feature that none of the they're kind of competitors on the market have and that is a Seuss's new AI overclocking feature this is something that appears on the side the sidebar if you like where you normally see you know your CPU frequency and temperature and memory frequency and stuff but you know have a little prediction window so there's a couple of things I want to explain here first of all the SI L is effectively your silicon quality so it's estimating how good of an overclocker your chip will be the higher the percentage the better
the overclock are the chip is supposedly that's not necessarily a kind of guarantee that if you have a 95 or 100% kind of SI L chip then you're gonna get you know a million gamers it just means that your chip is more likely to be happier to overclock you also have a cooler point score that is essentially just how well your cooler can do at cooling your CPU and that is something that the the system or the nother board learns from as you load up the CPU no set of stuff so in theory putting a bear a cooler gets you a better score means the system will be able to
auto overclock your cpu even more now you do have to go in and manually set it to auto overclock your cpu if you want that you put AI optimized in the overclocking settings and then it will do it all for you but it's actually a pretty good and pretty stable overall setup which is actually quite nice to see the rest of the BIOS is fairly standard it's the usual sort of menu system interface and it really isn't much change to your besides that ai overclocking feature so supposed to say it's not as user friendly as MSI's but it's a little bit easier to get to things like
overclocking and then or you know people that get your vice but it's so a decent user experience although not the most friendly thing in the world so the roundup here is that this is an expensive motherboard it's selling at the time of reviewing in the UK which makes it a well pretty expensive board the gigabyte is at 390 master board which is one of their highest and fact I think it is their highest and Zed 390 board is only more and that does have a good number more features and well the vrm setup isn't necessarily you know
worse on this that one is slightly better so if you're going for some extreme overclocking that one does have a few extra fee a few kind of details that might be a little bit better for you but um overall it's it's definitely expensive especially if you're being a Strix Board but it does have a few features to back that up with the IAI overclocking and mostly a great vrm setup and some nice overall connectivity too you still do have the problems of as I said that bandwidth limitation when it comes to say your render to slots and stuff like that as not only do your
MDOT twos and you know your lower PCIe slots but also all of your iOS all of the Wi-Fi all of your Gigabit Ethernet your USB ports to your thunderballs all of that goes through the chipset as well which means that you're gonna be limiting your MDOT who's basically whatever you do if you're using multiple or even just one high-end one in here so do you bear that in mind but otherwise if you're looking for a Zedd 390 board and especially if you do want to stick on
the su side of things then this is a really nice option if a big expense would I put this on my desk and probably it's a nice board it's a little bit lacking in i/o in terms of USB ports that tend to use a fair number of them but overall I'm pretty happy with it I'd be fairly happy to recommend it if you're looking for a Xan 390 board and yeah it's just generally pretty good so with that said I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below is this a board you're interested
in are you interested in the serenade master more because it's not that much more expensive or is you know you just no interested in side through 90 in general you're sticking with your new rising CPU for example I mean one that comes down below if you want to buy one of these boards or to check your pricing when and where you wash this then take a look at the link in the description down below where you can check that out you can also check out the rest of the
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Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming Motherboard LGA1151 review
The STRIX series is usually ASUS version of a more fun, enthusiastic, better-looking motherboard, yet on a budget. And two weeks ago I had reviewed the prime Z 390-A, it's entry-level. And we saw a lot of cool improvement but but but with the Republic of Gamers STRIX Z390-E, we have even more for our money. So without any further ado, let's take a closer look to this better-looking motherboard. (Sigh) INTRO PLAYING Alright, so this is not my first STRIX and I absolutely love reviewing them because this is opportunity for Asus to, as I said
earlier, trying to balance really cool gaming features and budget and there's also a few things that are not on the entry level such as thunderbolt and stuff like that but we have on the other hand more focused aesthetical and gaming friendly features so starting with the obvious we have here an ATX motherboard which is thirty point five centimeter long for twenty four point four centimeter wide. As usual it is powered by an LGA 1151 socket which will support both
the 8th generation of iCore Intel processor as well as its 9th generation. I usually do not mention the VRMs but in this case because the ninth generation of Intel processors needs a considerable more amount of energy than its previous generation, we have more beefy VRMs and that of course means more heat and potentially overheating and that is why Asus as provided, in the package with this motherboard, a little fan and fan bracket which will move
air-flow little bit faster and try to keep this overheating at bay. Memory wise we have the usual dual channel configuration which can support up to 64 gigabyte of ddr4 Ram overclockable up to 4.266 megahertz, which by the way is 266 megahertz more than its previous generation: the Z370 powered motherboard. So kudos to Asus for that. But note as well that there are rumors in market that the Z390 chipset can support up to 128 gigabyte of ddr4 Ram with 32 gigabyte
sticks so let's see what's gonna happen in the next weeks and months but that might be a BIOS update which will allow this motherboard to support up to 128 gigabytes of ddr4 ram in dual channel. Let's see. Staying in the memory this board can support up to 2 m.2 solid-state drive. One 11 cm long and 1, 8 centimeter long. So here I want to take a second to mention the fact that now the M.2 Solid State drive's heat shield and the chipset each shield, are two separated
component which is an improvement compared to the previous generations of motherboards such as Z370, Z270, Z170 etc and that seems like a small detail but it has its importance. In the past, heat coming from the M.2 Solid State drive would be easily conducted toward the chipset and thermo-throttling would be an overall issue or an overall design issue on the motherboard. So yes, it looks like a small change but it has its importance. As for the previous two generation
of chipset the Z390 is Optane ready, meaning that our M.2 Solid State drives can both swap up to 32 gigabit per second. And as I mentioned before that also means serious heating and possible thermal throttling, and that is why both of our M.2 Solid State drives heat-shields are equipped with thermo-pads. So moving upward, we have six third-generation PCIe expresses. Three single BUS speed, single slot, and three 16 slots with different speeds. As usual only the closest 16 slot to the CPU can provide up to 16 full BUS speed so if you have only one GPU to
operate this is where you want it to be for optimal performances. If you are going for a two way GPU configuration, the two first 16 slot PCI Express will be sharing their bandwidth and we will have a 8x8 BUS configuration. And in the case you are going to use those three 16 slots there will be all sharing the same bus speed and we will have an 8 by 4 by 4 configuration. And because those 16 PCI slots are most likely to carry the heavy weight of our video cards, they
have been metallically reinforced as well. SATA wise we have our usual six SATA 3.0 plugs which can all transfer up to six gigabit per second. I/O wise, I want to note that the i/o shield is integrated onto the motherboard and that's again something I love seeing. Asus started to do this with their Z270 Maximus series a couple years ago and, as I used to say back then and I keep saying right now, something I want to see more often. It's a real improvement. Saves you
time, makes it more airtight. It's just an overall win-win so kudos to Asus to start with this. We have a mouse keyboard ps/2 connector, two second generation USB plugs which can transfer data up to 480 megabits per second, four 3.1 second generation USB intake, three of them type A and 1 type C, which can all transfer that up to 10 gigabit per second, and that is one of the very few improvement we can notice coming from the Z370 to the Z390 chipset. We have more 3.1 second generation USB nested into the chipset which allows us to have more than, you
know, the usual 2 second generation 3.1. We can actually have up to 6 of them in this motherboard and that is something which is quite a lifesaver for like video editing people like me, or even big gamers who have to swap data from a hard disk to an hard disk or USB or whatever. So kudos to Intel / ASUS for this one. We have - 3.1 first-generation USB plugs which can transfer data up to five gigabit per second, our usual Display and HDMI output, our Intel
wireless AC 9560 which can transfer data up to 1.3 gigabit per second and again this is the second main improvement that you will see coming from the Z370 chipset to the Z390 chipset. We have a wireless adapter nested in there, which will allow multiple manufacturers to, more easily and more affordably, add Wi-Fi adapter without adding their dedicated third-party when a wireless chip set in there so again kudos. So not many improvement chipset wise but
definitely good ones. Our surge protected Gigabit LAN and finally our usual five channel plus optical output. Alright, so time to take a closer look to our onboard connectors. So we have two second-generation front panel USB connectors right here which can both transfer that up to 480 megabits per second. One 3.1 first-generation front panel USB connector right here which can transfer data up to five gigabit per second and a 3.1 second generation front panel type-c
connector which can transfer that up to ten gigabit per second. Again a consequence of our chipset upgrade. So far, pretty good. It looks like a very nicely done design and complete motherboard, but of course, as you know my favorite part of the review is the enthusiastic slash aesthetic part of it. And Asus, as usual, tend to pay more attention to their STRIX series when it comes to looks and gaming aspect so in our case we have seven fan connectors. two of which
are also water pump connectors, so if you are looking for a single or dual custom water cooling system these little motherboards, will have everything you need to make it happen. It also have one external thermal connector sensor for accurate thermal monitoring. Now aesthetically wise I am in love. It has the very same PCB board that the Prime series is using right so the one I reviewed two weeks ago the same components mainly but I have to say the design printed on
the board and the overall look and feel of it is absolutely gorgeous I mean that is a question of taste and I absolutely love it one thing we need to note here is that this board is all right compliant if you do not know the aura synced lighting effect then you should read the review I've done about that a couple years ago and in a nutshell the aura sink effect will you know sync all the RGB of your different aura compliant opponents in your build so that they can all do like cool synchronous effect together and on this particular board we have a very nice
AURA/OLED strip hidden and there's our roof and it looks absolutely gorgeous and what Asus tries to do usually is to add more than one strip maybe two or even three integrating into the board but I'm kind of happy that they just went for one good quality good looking or a strip where it should be now if that is not enough we also have two more or a complaint an RGB connector here and here and unlike the entry-level we have an addressable or rack compliant
RGB connector right there and you know that is something I complained about two weeks ago and I was reviewing the Arime Z390 or the absence of an addressable RGB connector so very happy and kudos to Asus for putting it on they're more enthusiastic friendly gamer board all right so this is conclusion time and the ROG STRIX Z390-E which is not cheap but I'll also say that Asus has definitely shown a more detailed approach and a more focused attention unto the performance of this board and that start with
vrm hitting which are definitely bigger and higher than the one available on the PRIME Z390-A. It also shows when you have a second M.2 solid-state drive heat-sync which a thermal pad on the other side and for the first one it has been separated from the chip set hit sync and finally we have this included fan and fan bracket to be installed on our VRM if needed so a real worry coming from Asus to keep this board as cool and performant as possible even if you are going to push it to its extreme limits on top of it all of course you have a premium build a premium
motherboard which looks amazingly good the aura sync effect has not looked as good on this board at this price point of that is my personal opinion we have everything you need to put you know addressable or classical or export on it as well and I have nothing bad to say about it but that's always about the Z390 chipset which powers this motherboard is so identical give or take a couple of details it's so identical to its predecessor the Z370 chipset that I don't see how you'd warrant an upgrade and dropping another mony this report both the same processors I
mean one can argue that because of the vrm if you use a ninth generation ichor Intel processor on the Z370 chipset you lose some 10-15 percent performances but even in this case I still don't see you know why you'd have to do that expenditure so as far as I go even though this is an amazing product an amazing motherboard if you have a Z370 chipset I wouldn't upgrade it but
if you don't if you have something previous to Z370 chipset to go for it this is the best bang for your buck the best motherboard which can range anything from casual gaming to extreme workstation load and something who can last you a long long time you know the best performance driven design I have seen in a long long time as well .
about Z 390 and I'm finally allowed to show you said 390 boards I've had these boards and they've been in the background of the videos for a while on the main OT 3d channel but what we're going to do is we do have the the main board here and I've kept the little fan separate so there's some what I want to show you with that well have a look at the accessories just quickly first that you can get an idea of what you're gonna get in the box so you get the card saying
welcome to the Republic you get a sticker pack these go on your fans these go on your cables or separate them out you can put this on a coaster to make your own rock coaster and you've got some other bits and boobs over this happy not feel boobs you get a voucher for money off cable mod cables and then your driver CD and the manual and then underneath but in the packaging you can actually see that they've added some extra detail onto the packaging in the actual
packaging yourself you get let's have a look how many in total that you get you get four SATA cables you get I believe there are yeah these are both RGB extended cables one to four pin normal extension cable one to three pin addressable extension cable then you also get a I think this might be from one of the other boxes and I've made a boo-boo but this is a temperature pay but I think this might come from the hero box that's my fault but it's because I've been trying to rush and to do too many you do get your Wi-Fi Bluetooth antenna so yeah and this screws
onto the back and you can put it onto the back of your case if you want you get some zip ties you get a sli bridge and you get your door hanger should you want to use and then you get all the the screws for your MDOT two's but you don't get that people do still say to me about this and I've seen it in the past people saying I didn't get the screws to screw the motherboard into the case well you won't if they don't supply those the screws for the case come with the case
anyway ok so our first broad look at the board what I want to do though is I want to draw your attention to this up in the top left hand corner and this is a fan mount and I'm going to move the ball around so that you can see where it goes now what Asus say that you should do if you want to mount the little fan is pull this up here and then mount the fan like that and then that brings it out over the IO shield and like it blows pretty much directly down on the fan but
something I noticed which is something I think you guys might like more there you will still have to raise it up so that you can screw it all in but something I actually liked the look of more was mounting it that way around and that is so you can see that you get a bit more surface area so rather than it being square and over here like that you mount it the other way around so this side and this side mounted and then the other to go over that now I'm not a fan of using fans
like this on the board anyway if you were going to use it and it didn't mess up with your the clearance on your heatsink or anything then this is probably the way that I would go with it comes with a three pin cable anyway rest of the things talked about on the board we will work our way around so eight pin top left-hand corner then you've got your CPU optional and your CPU fan header here then you've got four pin RGB header up on the top then this is the memo
case which come down you can see your boot lights or your post light so you've got CPU at the bottom then dram then VGA and then boot and these all change color so if they stop on something you know what you're having issues with during your post or boot cycle obviously the power external USB 3.1 six satyrs that little tab there is actually fabric by the way no I'll G be on the chipset and you've got three fan headers down the side here actually I do apologize
CT sensor thermal sensor so the thermal sensor that I said to you about before does come with the strips this is a hundred and up to 110 millimeter and then this one up here it's up to you eighteen but you can use a SATA and up to you on there if you like then you should go down the bottom you can see USB three two USB 2 s external fan header this is something that you're going to need to get used to see on an Asus boards now this is the Asus note they've got their
own proprietary header where you're going to see products coming out that's going to plug into that another RGB headed down here supreme FX audio and then on this side you can see your Wi-Fi Gigabit Ethernet HDMI display port USB USB type-c you can also see this is SS 10 so SuperSpeed 10 so that's USB gin USB 3 Gen 2 and these ones down inlets see that two speeds that's gin - this is just Gen 1 so and one of the things I did want to show you and this is only
meant to be a quick video but I do have the ability to be able to show you the lights because I've got a magic cable that allows me not to power the board up in a way that would mean breaking the NBA but it means I can power the board up so that I can just show you the lights so you've got the RGB section through the rock I now this is acrylic and it's etched and because it's etched it means it catches the light and if I'm honest I really really like it so it's up to you
obviously with the RGB you can easily turn it off but I think that's fairly effective I say it with all of this tricks boards I do think it's a shame there's not anything down on the chipset itself but still this is our first look at the rogue strips Zed 390 motherboard please check out a 3d TV for more we've got the extreme the formula the ITX board and the gene to show you and we've also got the hero that you can see in the background on rush kit as well so lots and lots of reviews for you to have a look at .
Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming Motherboard LGA1151 review
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