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Intel Z390 motherboard shootout: Which flagship board should you get?
Test setup & features comparison table
Test Setup
This is the test configuration for our Intel Z370 motherboard shootout:
- Intel Core i9-9900K (3.60GHz, 16MB L3 cache)
- Thermaltake Water 3.0 360 Riing RGB Edition
- 4 x 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3000
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition (GeForce Driver Version 417.35)
- Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD
- Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Here’s also a list of our tested boards for easier reference:
- ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate
- ASUS ROG Maximus XI Extreme
- Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme
- MSI MEG Z390 Godlike
Benchmarks
The list of benchmarks we used is as follows:
- SYSmark 2018
- SPECviewperf 13
- Cinebench R15
- 3DMark
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Motherboard features comparison table
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