Review: Aorus Z490 Xtreme

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 May 2020, 14:01

Tags: AORUS, Gigabyte (TPE:2376), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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No matter how expensive the Z490 board, it can only run at PCIe 3.0 speeds when used with a Core i9-10900K. That means half the potential bandwidth of the AMD setup, most ably demonstrated by having the same Corsair MP600 Force Series 2TB PCIe 4.0 drive in the secondary slots.