ASUS has inadvertently leaked photographs of their upcoming PRIME Z490-P and Z490-A motherboards, which is able to accompany the introduction of Intel’s 10th Gen “Ice Lake” CPUs. As is common with Intel, the brand new technology CPU launch shall be met with a brand new chipset launch, of which ASUS apparently has finalized designs: the corporate has uploaded Z490 photos on their present Z390 PRIME webpage.
Like with earlier ASUS designs, the PRIME Z490-P appears to focus on budget-conscious customers, with a lowered function set together with a no-frills VRM heatsink design (which suggests the VRM itself is not a top-tier one) and a fairly fundamental on-board sound processor. The motherboard nonetheless packs 2x M.2 slots and 2x PCIe 3.zero x16 slots, although the remainder of the enlargement slots are of the 1x variety (4x slots in whole). The Z490-A, although, boasts of a extra premium building, with outsized heatsinks (together with for at the least one of many M.2 slots) and 3x PCIe 3.zero x16 slots alongside 3x Pcie 3.zero 1x slots. The sound processing subsystem has additionally been clearly beefed up as compared.
