The MSI B350 Tomahawk Motherboard Review: Gaming On a Budget
by Gavin Bonshor on March 12, 2018 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming 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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PeachNCream - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
Minor typo at the end of the first paragraph in the conclusion section: "...with a slight not..." should probably read "...with a slight nod..."With the modest red LED lighting, this might be a nice board to have inside a windowless case.
timecop1818 - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
> comes with a one-clock OC buttonpretty sure you mean one-click
Flunk - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
One would hope you can turn the lighting off if you want.And sometimes windowless cases can be hard to find. Last time I bought a case I really liked the NZXT s340, but there is no option for a solid side panel. There are hundred different colors, but not solid side panels. Get off my lawn!
PeachNCream - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
There's a screenshot of the LED controls in the article and it looks like there's a software switch you can use to shut the lighting down entirely.The windowless cases I've seen available recently are very much on the low budget end of the price (and quality) spectrum so yeah, I don't think solid panels are easily found once you step up to a mid-range tier product.
errorfree - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link
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Its getting harder every day to find PC hardware that's not about bling. F bling IMO! Manufactures need to have two lines of products. Adult line and 3 year old line.Errorcodeexpert - Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - link
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Geranium - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
No USB 3.1(G2) on a platform which have native USB 3.1(G2) on it!!??Hurr Durr - Monday, March 12, 2018 - link
It`s only fair: the missile is anacronistic, and so is this MB.