leak ASUS "Accidentally" Leaked PRIME Z490-P

[rnario]

ASUS put PRIME Z490-P pitcures in Z390 description

 

Google Webcache

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vmW7TpGX0sMJ:https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-Z390-P/

 

Also on Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-z490-motherboard-intel-comet-lake-s

 

Obviously this is not an accident, and it's not their first time doing this¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And the chipset heatsink is WEAK

 

[Flavio hc 16]

oh's not bad, but a food "top of the line" mobo with no usb c in 2020? yikes

[Jurrunio]

I wonder if they just moved over the Z390-A's VRM or actually improved it

 

and heatsinks on the lower half of the board are as useless as ever

[Arika]

too many diagonal stripes.

 

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Those are not USB-c. they screwed up on their own marketing slides?

[RejZoR]

Why can't they make VRM heatsinks with flat base and then 90° fins from it, even at angle if they want to make them look fancy, you know, like a comb design of cooler instead of these stupid shaped abominations that are not efficient at all. Or just pin stack on top of flat base. I'd actually prefer this, like for BGA chipsets, but larger. And even if they slammed a cover on top, you'd still have a stack of pins underneath where air can easily move through as the whole thing is placed vertically.

 

These full chunks of metal just initially delay the heatup because it's a chunk of metal that can accumulate some heat and once saturated, it disperses heat at terrible rate because it has no real surface area.

 

Something like this, but obviously larger to fit over VRM circuitry:

[Tan3l6]

What's the "ProCool connector" about?

One 4-pin  and one 8-pin?  What if PSU only has 24-pin + 8-pin power connectors for mobo? The 4-pin stays vacant?

[colonel_mortis]

@rnario please can you add some personal input about this news to your post, per the Tech News Posting Guidelines

 

[Jito463]

26 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

What's the "ProCool connector" about?

One 4-pin  and one 8-pin?  What if PSU only has 24-pin + 8-pin power connectors for mobo? The 4-pin stays vacant?

I don't know what the "ProCool" is, but my X470 motherboard has both an 8+4 CPU power, but I've only got the 8-pin plugged in and it works fine.  Typically speaking, the extra 4-pin is for heavy OC'ing - which I don't bother with - or high power draw processors.

[RejZoR]

36 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

What's the "ProCool connector" about?

One 4-pin  and one 8-pin?  What if PSU only has 24-pin + 8-pin power connectors for mobo? The 4-pin stays vacant?

Those connectors are usually hollow, made of folded metal to resemble a 3D pin where ASUS ProCool is a solid piece of metal used to form the connector pin. Here's a pic I found from Z390...

 

 

Yeah, ASUS ProCool is literally just that. I think I've seen it on some of my mobos and they weren't even advertising this in any special way...

[Arika]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

ASUS ProCool

Geez what a terrible name...

[CTR640]

3 hours ago, Arika S said:

Geez what a terrible name...

Sounds like it's targetted at brats playing Fortnite.

[dat_boi_fluff]

lol am dummy dont pay attention to this.
 

Edited April 18, 2020 by dat_boi_fluff
misinformation on my part

[schwellmo92]

4 minutes ago, dat_boi_fluff said:

From what I understand those are technically USB-C, but in the shape of type A. It's very confusing but heres an article to help understand a little bit better. I'm sure you could find better articles but I'm too lazy.

 

 

The information you provided doesn’t prove your point at all. Type-C is the physical connector, the end.

[dat_boi_fluff]

2 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

The information you provided doesn’t prove your point at all. Type-C is the physical connector, the end.

Ah yes I guess so, I'll delete it so no misinformation

[Đỗ Đức Huy]

You can quote me on this months in the future, there will be a thousand dollar Z390 board from Asus. Got the tipped off from one of the product manager at one of Asus local distributor. That's all I will ever say on this. The Z490 prime is the "base line" model, all other Asus board will be better than this feature wise.

[AkatsukiKun]

I think it's always been hard for me to recommend the intel platform given that they charge so much just to be able to overclock, and add-in the most basic overclockable board and you're spending ~$40-50(CAD) ish and maybe more for intel especially at this price point while you can get a B450 board that's a bit under the Tomahawk.

[TOMPPIX]

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-meg-z490-godlike-flagship-motherboard-leaks-as-well.html

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 4/18/2020 at 3:44 AM, Arika S said:

too many diagonal stripes.

 

Those are not USB-c. they screwed up on their own marketing slides?

It's not a leak unless there's something drastically weird about it. 

[5x5]

5 hours ago, TOMPPIX said:

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-meg-z490-godlike-flagship-motherboard-leaks-as-well.html

Of course, everyone wants a 960 euro board for their 200 euro CPU. Long live the chipset market

[AndreiArgeanu]

On 4/18/2020 at 11:16 AM, rnario said:

And the chipset heatsink is WEAK

I mean I've never seen Intel motherboards nowadays to have that much cooling compared to the high end ryzen boards which some have fans or watercooling.

[AndreiArgeanu]

43 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Of course, everyone wants a 960 euro board for their 200 euro CPU. Long live the chipset market

I can only imagine that the price is that high because it's made for LN2 cooling or something like that.

[5x5]

2 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

I can only imagine that the price is that high because it's made for LN2 cooling or something like that.

It's like that because there are stupid people who buy these. The same reason the GT80, GT82 and other horribly overpriced and impractical pieces of tech exist. The tech "whales" spend lots of money on things they don't need

[rnario]

On 4/20/2020 at 8:50 PM, AndreiArgeanu said:

I mean I've never seen Intel motherboards nowadays to have that much cooling compared to the high end ryzen boards which some have fans or watercooling.

Well on second thought unless Intel put PCIE4.0 in the chipset, it barely runs that hot, but compared to AMD it just feels like Intel is doing things wrong..

[kakik09]

On 4/18/2020 at 6:16 PM, rnario said:

And the chipset heatsink is WEAK

It's an entry level board within the Z490 line-up. What did you expect?

[dizmo]

Predictably boring for a basic board. It'll be interesting to compare this year's Intel and AMD CPUs. Maybe we'll see some serious movement in pricing from Intel. Or maybe they'll just hold fast and come back stronger in a year or two. 

On 4/18/2020 at 4:33 AM, Flavio hc 16 said:

oh's not bad, but a food "top of the line" mobo with no usb c in 2020? yikes

It's not a top of the line motherboard...

On 4/20/2020 at 6:06 AM, 5x5 said:

Of course, everyone wants a 960 euro board for their 200 euro CPU. Long live the chipset market

What a completely nonsensical comment to make. It's not like Intel makes significantly mrke expensive CPUs or anything

On 4/20/2020 at 6:56 AM, 5x5 said:

It's like that because there are stupid people who buy these. The same reason the GT80, GT82 and other horribly overpriced and impractical pieces of tech exist. The tech "whales" spend lots of money on things they don't need

Or people that like the aesthetic. Most people spend money on things they don't really need. But guess what. It's their money, not yours. Not sure why you'd even care.