Maxsun has revealed the corporate’s new iCraft Z790 White motherboard to accommodate among the finest CPUs obtainable at this time. Constructed on the Z790 chipset, the motherboard is prepared for Intel’s present Raptor Lake and upcoming Raptor Lake Refresh processors.
Coming from Maxsun’s flagship lineup, the iCraft Z790 White has an influence supply subsystem comprised of a 12+3+4-phase design. It is not essentially the most over-engineered design we have seen; nevertheless, it is greater than enough to deal with as much as 400W. The motherboard feeds the processor with twin 8-pin EPS connectors. That is sufficient headroom to overclock the upcoming Core i9-14900K to a wholesome frequency. Concerning componentry, the motherboard employs MP86945A energy phases that drive 60A of present per section and an MP2965 PWM controller, each from Monolithic Energy Techniques (MPS). A beefy heatsink with a 6mm nickel-plated warmth pipe retains the facility supply subsystem space cool.
Being a high-end motherboard, the iCraft Z790 White comes with all of the bells and whistles. The motherboard has its fair proportion of RGB lighting and a backplate to assist with structural rigidity. It additionally has your typical debug LEDs, a double-digit debug module that can assist you pinpoint {hardware} failures, shortcut buttons to restart or flip off your system, and a normal rear button to clear your CMOS.
The motherboard affords 4 DDR5 reminiscence slots, supporting information charges as much as DDR5-7600 and past. There are many M.2 slots on the iCraft Z790 White. All 4 slots adhere to the PCIe 4.0 x4 specification with assist for NVMe drives. Nonetheless, solely one of many M.2 slots is suitable with SATA-based M.2 drives. Maxsun additionally geared up the iCraft Z790 White with 4 SATA III ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays.
The alloy-reinforced main enlargement slot runs at PCIe 5.0 x16, so that is the one you’d need to use with the very best graphics playing cards. There are different enlargement choices, too, which embrace two PCIe x1 slots, one PCIe x16 (restricted to x4) slot, and a daily PCIe x4 slot. For those who do not plan on utilizing discrete graphics, the motherboard gives an HDMI 1.4 port and a DisplayPort 1.4 output for the processor’s iGPU.
The Realtek RTL8125B gives the two.5 Gigabit connectivity, whereas an Intel wi-fi module handles the Wi-Fi 6 connection. Maxsun selected the Realtek ALC897 audio codec for the iCraft Z790 White pair with eight gold-plated audio capacitors. The audio space is separated from the remainder of the PCB to stop interference. 5 3.5mm audio jacks and one S/PDIF out connector can be found for plugging in your headphones or audio system.
The iCraft Z790 White affords 4 USB 2.0 ports, 4 USB 3.2 ports, and one USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Kind-C port on the rear panel. That ought to be sufficient USB ports for the common person. Nonetheless, if you happen to want extra, the motherboard has one USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 header, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 header, and two USB 2.0 headers.
Maxsun plans to launch the iCraft Z790 White in October. The motherboard will retail for $299.99 on Amazon and Newegg.
