CES 2021: EVGA Announces Z590 DARK and Z590 FTW WIFI Boards for Rocket Lake-S

Source: Geeknetic added 12th Jan 2021

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In addition to MSI, EVGA has also unveiled some of its motherboard models with the new Intel Z chipset 590 for computers with 11th generation Intel Core “Rocket Lake-S” processors announced yesterday as the Core i9 – 11900 K .

EVGA Z 590 DARK and EVGA Z 590 FTW WIFI will be, at least for now, the first motherboards of the company for this new generation of processors, keeping the LGA socket 1200 and adding support for technologies such as PCI Express 4.0.

ARGB, PCIe 4.0, overclock and WiFi 6 connectivity are some of the hallmarks of these Z boards 590 EVGA

The EVGA Z 590 DARK will hit the market with a power system of 22 phases in the VRMs to feed the processor and RAM and allow it to be performed advanced overclocking. It will feature a PCB layout of 10 layers and support for NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs in Its three M.2 ports, dual 2.5 GbE Intel connectivity, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1. All decorated by a housing with RGB.

By another side the EVGA Z 590 FTW WiFi will have the Same support for PCIe 4.0, WiFi 6, BT 5.1, but the VRMs system for power is reduced to 17 phases on an 8 layer PCB.

We will still have to wait to know its price and availability.

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