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BEN MANSILL REPORTS ON THE UNUSUAL SIDE OF TECH NEWS

EXCUSE ME, HOW MUCH? The $3,400 motherboard. Don’t buy that 65-inch OLED TV you’ve budgeted for, because Asus will take those beans in exchange for a new motherboard, instead. The Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme Glacial shames the $1,000 boards we’ve been shaming in APC lately. A scan of the specs reveals bells’n’whistles galore, like 10Gb networking, Thunderbolt 4, five M.2 slots and war-grade power systems and components. There’s also a little LED display. But most of the moola goes to the monolithic EK waterblock that cools just about everything, including the VRMs, M.2s, and the chipset. APC is pleased that such things exist in this timeline, even though we’ll never own one. RAZER ZEPHYR IS REALLY REAL, NOW Looking sharp in the end of times. Razer likes to do…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

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