Here are among the first photos and particulars of a pair of premium socket LGA1200 motherboards by Colorful. The iGame Z490 Vulcan X seems to steer the corporate’s upcoming Intel Z490 chipset motherboard lineup. The CVN Z490 Gaming Pro, however, is a mid-range providing. The iGame board affords a 280 W-capable 14-phase CPU VRM, three every of PCI-Express 3.zero x16 (x8/x8/x4 with all three populated, else x16/NC/x4) slots, PCie x1, and M.2 NVMe slots; a PCH heatsink outer shroud that extends into heatsinks for 2 of the M.2 slots, a rear I/O shroud that extends into an M.2 heatsink; and connectivity that features a premium ALC1220-based onboard audio answer, 802.11ax WLAN pushed by an Intel AX201 board, and a pair of.5 GbE wired interface pushed by an Intel i225-V controller. The I/O shroud and PCH heatsink characteristic RGB LED gildings.
The CVN Z490 Gaming Pro is refreshingly spartan for a Colorful board. Chunky aluminium heatsinks cool the board’s 10-phase VRM rated as much as 125 W. The CPU socket is wired to 2 bolstered PCI-Express 3.zero x16 slots (x16/x4 electrical), You nonetheless get three M.2 slots, however solely certainly one of them incorporates a heatsink. The connectivity is entry-level, too, with a Realtek ALC892-driven 8-channel HD audio answer, and a single 1 GbE wired networking interface pushed by a Realtek RTL8111H controller. There are ARGB headers, though no RGB LED gildings.
