MSI has began teasing its next-gen Z790 motherboards on Twitter with the primary one being a part of its MPG “Huge Efficiency Gaming” household.
MSI’s Subsequent-Gen Z790 Motherboards Get An Official Teaser Forward of Intel’s thirteenth Gen Raptor Lake Launch
September and October are going to be insane months if we contemplate all of the {hardware} launches & bulletins which might be going down. We’ve AMD’s Ryzen 7000 & AM5 platform, we now have Intel’s thirteenth Gen and 700-series platform, we now have NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX unveil & there are additionally a number of new part launches comprising new DDR5 reminiscence kits, new coolers, ATX 3.0 PSUs & Gen 5.0 SSDs. The following few months are undoubtedly going to be nice for PC builders throughout the globe.
Final month, MSI teased its AM5 motherboards for the AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs. This month, the corporate is teasing the next-gen Z790 motherboards for Intel’s thirteenth Gen Desktop CPUs. MSI is posting a teaser picture showcasing its MPG class motherboards beginning with Z490, Z590, Z690 and main as much as the subsequent era which is labeled as “Z???”.
Everyone knows that that is the Z790 motherboard that has been within the talks for a very long time now. Intel has confirmed that the brand new Z790 motherboards will stick to the prevailing LGA 1700/1800 socket & assist each twelfth Gen Alder Lake and thirteenth Gen Raptor Lake CPUs. MSI and the remainder of the board makers have already rolled out their respective Z690 BIOS to assist thirteenth Gen CPUs on their 600-series motherboards.
The particular motherboard is the MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WiFi which has all the time been the sweet-spot mainstream product. We tried to make the picture extra helpful and came upon that the board options at the very least 22 energy phases which is a rise from the 20 phases on the Z690 iteration.
The motherboard has a 4-slot DDR5 DIMM design and carries 6 SATA III ports for storage. The board has a single PCIe Gen 5 x16 connector & a PCIe x16 (Gen 4) plus a PCIe x1 (Gen 4) slot. There appear to be at the very least 5 M.2 slots on the board, all 5 of which ought to run at Gen 4 speeds because the CPU is not providing any direct M.2 lanes until the board distributors determine to separate them with the x16 discrete Gen 5.0 GPU lanes. There are two 8-pin connectors to energy the board and get to see a pleasant number of heatsinks on the board. This motherboard ought to value across the $299-$399 US worth vary.
Intel is predicted to introduce its thirteenth Gen Raptor Lake CPUs and the 700-series platform together with the Z790 motherboards on the twenty seventh of September so keep tuned for extra data.
