The ASRock AB350 Gaming K4 Motherboard Review: Dual M.2 at $90
by Gavin Bonshor on April 9, 2018 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity
Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can. Stardock, the developer behind the Nitrous engine which powers the game, has ensured that the real-time strategy title takes advantage of multiple cores and multiple graphics cards, in as many configurations as possible.
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Thief
Thief has been a long-standing title in PC gamers hearts since the introduction of the very first iteration which was released back in 1998 (Thief: The Dark Project). Thief as it is simply known rebooted the long-standing series and renowned publisher Square Enix took over the task from where Eidos Interactive left off back in 2004. The game itself utilises the fluid Unreal Engine 3 engine and is known for optimised and improved destructible environments, large crowd simulation and soft body dynamics.
Total War: WARHAMMER
Not only is the Total War franchise one of the most popular real-time tactical strategy titles of all time, but Sega delve into multiple worlds such as the Roman Empire, Napoleonic era and even Attila the Hun, but more recently they nosedived into the world of Games Workshop via the WARHAMMER series. Developers Creative Assembly have used their latest RTS battle title with the much talked about DirectX 12 API so that this title can benefit from all the associated features that comes with it. The game itself is very CPU intensive and is capable of pushing any top end system to their limits.
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Topweasel - Monday, April 9, 2018 - link
This isn't one of those "Delay'ed reviews". It's practically already in a retirement home. It's well over a year since this chipset launched. I was wondering since there had been a decent amount of Z370 and X299 reviews, I was left wondering where the AMD board reviews are, but not this, I mean we are less than a week for a new chipset on the platform with new CPU's, specially for such a milquetoast selection.IBM760XL - Monday, April 9, 2018 - link
It's worth noting in the specs box on page two that there are the additional two SATA ports mentioned elsewhere above the base B350. That's one of the main reasons I'm considering this board.Although at this point, I'm going to wait for the next-gen to launch next week.
dromoxen - Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - link
both major players offer non-overclockable mid-range CPUs?? i WAS under the impression that ALL ryzens were o/c able .. Not all mid range chipsex offer overclocking tho ab320hammerang - Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - link
Sorry but shouln't a proper gaming motherboard test include mobo components thermal data with and without OC?hammerang - Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - link
Regarding the ALC892, i so budget i gonna buy an additional pcie sound card for another $80.jimandroidpc - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Up next : Review of Athlon XP 1800+cnxzlf - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
Excellent!!!
cnxzlf - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
Excellent
James_Whatson - Monday, May 7, 2018 - link
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