PC Specialist Myrmidon I Review

Clock and Storage Speeds

3200MHz DDR4 and the 5 GHz 10 Core Core i9-10900K make for an excellent pairing and will be more than enough performance for even the most power hungry user.

  

As we’ve seen throughout our time with the Z490 chipset, the BIOS is rapidly evolving and bring a lot of extra performance, particularly when you’re running at stock and letting the architecture handle the overclocking. We always test systems exactly as they arrive, with no tweaking or adjustments whatsoever beyond installing the latest drivers. So there might be the odd test when this slightly older BIOS doesn’t let the Myrmidon shine as brightly as we know it could, especially as we’re comparing it to our own 10900K test system which has the most recent BIOS installed.

  

Naturally the “sitting around on the desktop” reported clock speeds of the Strix RTX 2080 Ti are nothing like those you get when it’s doing its thing. In usage the GPU boosted to a maximum of 1965 MHz, with an average speed of just a hair shy of the max. Lots of airflow plus a great quality cooler allow the Turing GPU to stretch its legs.

  

Storage

We were hoping for a little more from the Samsung M.2 at the heart of the Myrmidon, although the throughput is hardly sluggish by any means.