Thursday, October 3rd 2024
ASUS Z890 Motherboards for Upcoming Intel "Arrow Lake" Processors Leak
Yesterday, we got a leak about Intel's "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 200 series CPUs official public announcement on October 10 and the review embargo and official retail launch on October 24. However, today, we are able to look at some of the upcoming motherboards powering Core Ultra 200 CPUs, based on the Z890 chipset. Thanks to VideoCardz, we can look at ASUS high-end motherboard pictures and decipher some of the common features that will be present on high-end boards, like a hefty VRM configuration, along with some new color schemes. We notice that there are new GPU slot reinforcement and M.2 release mechanisms, alongside WiFi 7 and Thunderbolt 4. Some leaked pricing also suggests that ASUS ROG Maximus boards could be retailing for more than the highest-end Core Ultra 9 285K SKU, while there are more budget "Prime" series of motherboards present as well. Here are all leaked ASUS boards:
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Extreme:
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero:
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex:
ASUS ROG Strix Z890-A Gaming WiFi:
ASUS ROG Strix Z890-E Gaming WiFi:
ASUS TUF Gaming Z890-Plus WiFi:
ASUS Prime Z890-P WiFi:
ASUS Prime Z890M-Plus WiFi CSM:
Source:
VideoCardz
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Extreme:
32 Comments on ASUS Z890 Motherboards for Upcoming Intel "Arrow Lake" Processors Leak
Anyway, another year another Intel short lived socket, I'm not on the group that likes to bash on Intel for everything and has a party everytime the stock drops but damn, could Intel throw people a bone!?
Those giant metal blobs are very inefficient at dissipating heat, they can only absorb short burts of high heat, and then slowly dissipate it. It's obviously a gimmick to make buyers think the motherboards can handle more, yet a tiny heatsink with proper fins can do it way more efficiently, like we see on server and some workstation boards:
(This one from ASRock IMB-X1900 can handle over 450W power delivery for the CPU)
I never really thought about server vrm but its a wonder really.
I can put two 5690 around 130 watts each on this and just works and the vrm area is so little.
the tiny fan could also help a lot pushing some air inside around the rams/DIMM
Yes, I have the first gen Z790-E. As I said, no chance to get anything above 7000MHz Prime-stable with the 32GB kit and no chance to run 6800MHz with the 64GB kit (6600MHz at 1.47V is rock stable though so not too much of a loss).
The funny thing is that, not with the first one, but with one of the very first/early BIOS versions, I could run 7200MHz Prime-stable but annoyingly never again with any of the BIOS versions after that so that gives us a hint that it wasn't my IMC but the board holding me back.
Why did I not roll back to that old BIOS version? Well, it was one of those versions before some pretty critical security fixes so I just settled for running my 32GB kit at 6800MHz.
I mean, the difference in games between 6800MHz and 7200MHz is maybe 1fps so it wasn't a big deal, just slightly annoying when you can not run the RAM at its nominal speed that is printed on the box and that you paid good money for... ;)