Gigabyte Unveils Ground Breaking Z890 Motherboards

[persondb]

Some early pricing leaks, starts at €330 for a basic board.

On a les prix de certaines cartes mères MSI Z890 pour les futurs processeurs Arrow Lake d'Intel

Et cette fois, nous avons en plus de droit à des prix en euros, globalement via Amazon NL. Trois modèles ont donc ainsi été listés chez le marchand, à savoir la MSI Pro Z890-P WiFi, la Z890 Gaming Plus WiFi et la MA...

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That is horrible, specially with how bad some of those boards are.

The Gigabyte Z890M Gaming X Rear IO is only 4x USB 2 and 3x USB 3 5gbps. For €330 or so, that is kinda horrible for such a basic board. I guess this is PCIe cost.

Where did you get that info, Z890 still seems to have plenty of gen3-lanes. Most of them will be used for SATA, 2.5GbE, WiFi and USB3.2, though.

From:

Intel's Upcoming 800-series Chipsets Leak in Detail

What appears to be the full details of all of Intel's upcoming 800-series chipsets have leaked and although we've already seen what the Z890 chipset will offer, no details of the other SKUs have leaked to date. Maybe the biggest news is that there won't be an H870 chipset this time around...

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It only states that it has 24 Gen 4 lanes. Which I assume is the upgrade from Z690/Z790 as otherwise everything seems to be more or less the same.

USB3.2 and SATA is directly from the chipset, it doesn't need to use PCIe lanes to implement it. Unless the lanes are multiplexed with USB/SATA. This happens in some case but not all.

2.5GbE and Wifi should only consume a single lane each, and that is if the wifi doesn`t use the Intel CNVIo which doesn`t connect by PCIe.

 

[TheLostSwede]

That is horrible, specially with how bad some of those boards are.

Indeed.

The Gigabyte Z890M Gaming X Rear IO is only 4x USB 2 and 3x USB 3 5gbps. For €330 or so, that is kinda horrible for such a basic board. I guess this is PCIe cost.

It's also one of their most basic SKUs, so not so strange in terms of features. Price on the other hand is terrible.

 

[Vincero]

There are three mATX boards, although one has a white and a black SKU.

Yeah there are - I did spot that - my thinking was more "I was happy to see 'an' MATX board" in the line-up at all as it seems to be unfashionable (well, in Asus world - yes I know they showed 1.... a whole one) for that platform, even though none of them are exactly overdoing it on the IO slots.

 

[persondb]

It's also one of their most basic SKUs, so not so strange in terms of features. Price on the other hand is terrible.

Yeah, it's not that it's strange that basic SKUs get shafted in feature, it's just that I don't think basic SKUs should exist at that price point.

The price that you pay for just the mobo is a lot in those.

 

[Tigerfox]

Z890 has zero PCIe 3.0 lanes, loads of typos and mistakes in the Gigabyte specs.

Must have missed that rumour. But many of those boards still have Gen3x1-slots.

USB3.2 and SATA is directly from the chipset, it doesn't need to use PCIe lanes to implement it. Unless the lanes are multiplexed with USB/SATA. This happens in some case but not all.

Intel's chipsets have had something called "HSIO-lanes" for a long time now. Each of those can either be PCIe, USB3.2 10Gb/s or SATA, but not every lane can be used for anything, atleast according to the diagramms we got in the past. So, 24 lanes Gen4 is without SATA and 2.5GbE (and WiFi I think, even if CNVio dosn't need it). With 4xSATA, 2.5GbE and WiFi, there should be 18 lanes left.

 

[Nanochip]

AI this AI that. Even though the chips have a 13 TOPs NPU. A big yawn. Not even enough to qualify for copilot+.

 

[Wasteland]

The Gigabyte Z890M Gaming X Rear IO is only 4x USB 2 and 3x USB 3 5gbps. For €330 or so, that is kinda horrible for such a basic board. I guess this is PCIe cost.

AI this AI that. Even though the chips have a 13 TOPs NPU. A big yawn. Not even enough to qualify for copilot+.

The AI's first task? To help the user find a good deal on a USB hub

 

[Tigerfox]

@Nanochip : It's rather funny to read in the product descriptions of the individual boards were AI is allegedly at work. "AI pcb", lol.

 

[axiumone]

AORUS AI SNATCH

Hmm... well, ok then.

 

[csendesmark]

As far as I can see, dual 2.5GbE and PCIe x8/x8 are Aero G's only selling points. Aero G always was just slightly orientated to creators, Aero D was the real deal, but not available in every generation (and rarely on AMD). But since Aero D's main features often were 10GbE and Thunderbolt3/4, this role now goes to Z890 AI Top.

Exactly, so they should prepare to pull data from an m.2 SSD or disk RAID in a remote machine (@10Gbps).
If they marketing it as a "creator" oriented board.
And I know AERO. I still have my old X570S version on my desk and it was OK, also it was criticized back then for the only 2.5Gbps, because ASUS' ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI
Of course I was mad, since I already had the AERO X570S by ASUS released it...
Did not make that mistake second time the ProArt X870 is gud.

 

[Minus Infinity]

So far we have Asucks and Gigashyte overpriced rubbish. Looks like I'll go Asrock this gen. But Z890 looks better than Z870E for sure, but the rest of the In tel range looks ordinary.

 

[AKBrian]

Yes, that's what the link is for...

Just updated the news post with more and better quality pics of the boards.

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The critical bit in that image is the drop to a 2366.7MHz memory controller frequency.