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ASRock Z490 Steel Legend

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One of ASRock's 2020 flagship motherboards with LGA1200 processor socket. Based on the top Intel Z490 chipset, it supports basic and advanced overclocking functions. Designed to create high-performance home and gaming systems, it will be of interest to overclocking enthusiasts. It is positioned as a product of the upper part of the middle price category, aimed at advanced users who can get maximum performance by fine-tuning the parameters of key system components manually. ASRock Z490 Steel Legend motherboard fully supports 2/4/6/8/10-core 10th generation Intel Core i9/i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron processors (Comet Lake core, 14nm). The increased power consumption of overclocked processors is efficiently handled by a 10-phase digital power subsystem with advanced aluminium heatsinks. Supports...installation of up to 4 modules of high-speed DDR4 RAM with a total capacity of up to 128 GB, which is quite enough for gaming, streaming and solving any household/professional tasks. To create a high-speed storage subsystem based on NVMe SSD drives, two M.2 connectors are provided. Rapid processing of network traffic with minimal latency is provided by the Dragon RTL8125BG 2.5GbE adapter.
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ASRock Z490 Steel Legend
Towards:gaming
Form Factor:ATX
Socket:Intel LGA 1200
Chipset:Intel Z490
BIOS:Ami
RAM slots:DDR4 4 sl
RAM form factor:DIMM
RAM clock:4266 MHz
Sound (channels):7.1
Connectors:HDMI, M.2
Additional connectors:DisplayPort
Power connector:24 pin
Processor power:8+4 pin

One of ASRock's 2020 flagship motherboards with LGA1200 processor socket. Based on the top Intel Z490 chipset, it supports basic and advanced overclocking functions. Designed to create high-performance home and gaming systems, it will be of interest to overclocking enthusiasts. It is positioned as a product of the upper part of the middle price category, aimed at advanced users who can get maximum performance by fine-tuning the parameters of key system components manually.

ASRock Z490 Steel Legend motherboard fully supports 2/4/6/8/10-core 10th generation Intel Core i9/i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron processors (Comet Lake core, 14nm). The increased power consumption of overclocked processors is efficiently handled by a 10-phase digital power subsystem with advanced aluminium heatsinks. Supports installation of up to 4 modules of high-speed DDR4 RAM with a total capacity of up to 128 GB, which is quite enough for gaming, streaming and solving any household/professional tasks. To create a high-speed storage subsystem based on NVMe SSD drives, two M.2 connectors are provided. Rapid processing of network traffic with minimal latency is provided by the Dragon RTL8125BG 2.5GbE adapter.

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Specifications Z490 Steel Legend
Main
Featuresgaming for overclocking
SocketIntel LGA 1200
Form factorATX
Power phases11
VRM heatsink
LED lighting
Lighting syncASRock Polychrome Sync
Size (HxW)305x244 mm
Chipset
ChipsetIntel Z490
BIOSAmi
UEFI BIOS
RAM
DDR44 slot(s)
Memory moduleDIMM
Operation mode2 channel
Max. clock frequency4266 MHz
Max. memory128 GB
XMP
Drive interface
SATA 3 (6Gbps)6
M.2 connector2
M.22xSATA/PCI-E 4x
M.2 SSD cooling
Integrated RAID controller / RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 /
Expansion slots
1x PCI-E slots3
PCI-E 16x slots2
PCI Modes16x/4x
PCI Express3.0
CrossFire (AMD)
Steel PCI-E connectors
Internal connections
TPM connector
USB 2.02
USB 3.2 gen12
USB C 3.2 gen11
Video outputs
HDMI output
HDMI versionv.1.4
DisplayPort
DisplayPort versionv.1.4
Integrated audio
AudiochipRealtek ALC1200
Sound (channels)7.1
Optical S/P-DIF
Network interfaces
LAN (RJ-45)2.5 Gbps
LAN ports1
LAN controllerDragon RTL8125BG
External connections
USB 2.02
USB 3.2 gen12
USB 3.2 gen21
USB C 3.2 gen21
PS/21
Power connectors
Main power socket24 pin
CPU power8+4 pin
Fan power connectors7
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