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Supports 10Th Generation Intel Core / Pentium Gold / Celeron Processors For LGA 1200 Socket
Supports Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Up To 128GB Total (4800Mhz)
Frozr Heatsink Designed With Active Cooling, Double Ball Bearings, And Zero Frozr Technology For High-Performance Heat Dissipation
Triple Turbo M.2 With M.2 Shield Frozr Delivers Transfer Speeds Of Up To 32 GB/S For Ultra-Fast Ssds
On-Board 2.5G LAN Plus Gigabit LAN With With Wi-Fi 6 (802.11Ax)
Pre-Installed I/O Shielding For Convenience And Protection From Electrostatic Discharge
| Model | MEG Z490 UNIFY |
| Release Date |
May 2020
* First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date. |
| Socket | LGA1200 |
| Form factor | ATX |
| Chipset | Intel Z490 |
| Supported Memory |
DDR4:
2133Mhz
2400Mhz
2666Mhz
2933Mhz
3000Mhz
3200Mhz
3300Mhz
3333Mhz
3400Mhz
3466Mhz
3600Mhz
3733Mhz
3866Mhz
4000Mhz
4133Mhz
4200Mhz
4266Mhz
4300Mhz
4400Mhz
4533Mhz
4600Mhz
4800Mhz
* High clock speeds may require enabling the XMP profile in the motherboard BIOS
** RAM compatibility support may also depend on the CPU memory controller |
| ECC RAM Support | |
| Audio Chipset | Realtek ALC1220 |
| Audio Channels |
7.1-Channel High Definition Audio Supports Optical S/PDIF output |
| LAN Chipset | Realtek RTL8125B |
| Max LAN Speed | 10/100/1000/2500Mbps |
| SLI Support | |
| CrossFire Support | |
| RAID Support | |
| Back I/O Ports |
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| Wireless LAN | |
| PCI-Express x16 Slots | 3 |
| PCI-Express x4 Slots | 0 |
| PCI-Express x1 Slots | 2 |
| SATA 6 Gbps Ports | 6 |
| SATA Express Ports | 0 |
| M.2 Ports | 4 |
| RAM Slots | 4 |
| Maximum Supported RAM | 128GB |
| Onboard USB 2.0 | 2 |
| Onboard USB 3.2 Gen 1 | 1 |
| Onboard USB 3.2 Gen 2 | 1 |
We managed to nudge all 10-cores on our 10900K up to 5.3GHz with UNIFY without any difficulty. Some BIOS layouts can be complex and tricky to navigate but its great that MSI keep things simple with their design.
If you want a stealth motherboard, that has all the hardware necessary to run hard and fast, the MSI MEG Z490 Unify is both affordable and capable. It's just a shame that we couldn't quite squeeze that last 100 MHz from it.
The MSI MEG Z490 UNIFY is easily one of my favorite motherboards, that's also a bit personally and thus subjective as my opinion here is based on looks as well. features wise you get 90% of what the premium 400~500 USD boards offer. The phase design is impressive the looks great. You get one 2.5 Gbps Ethernet jack but do still get AX WIFI6. The res ...
Series: P1
Capacity: 1000GB
Interface: M.2 (M)
NVME:
Form Factor: M.2-2280
NAND Flash Type: 3D NAND
Max Sequential Read: Up to 2000 MB/s
Max Sequential Write: Up to 1700 MB/s