What wifi is this board supposed to have?

[Sin Stalker]

I noticed this motherboard has a wifi antenna bracket at the back. In the  overview it mentions it supports m.2 wifi but it is sold separately. What m.2 wifi is it talking about? I checked the asus website and did a quick google search but only found m.2 cards with no antenna to go in that bracket or m.2 cards on a pcie card.

 

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157924?Item=N82E16813157924

 

 

[Kanna]

Never heard of that but I would not buy a Wi-Fi board buying an expansion is cheaper and better  

[Electronics Wizardy]

thers is no onboard wifi. You need to add a m.2 card to have wifi supported. It looks like you need to get the antennas and cables aswell if you get a wifi card.

 

 

Id probably just get a board with wifi onboard or just get a pcie wifi card.

[Mateyyy]

The metal piece is probably there because they couldn't be bothered to take it off from the Phantom Gaming AX, which is pretty much what the Pro4 is - a PG without the WIFI.

 

Regardless, avoid Asrock's Z490 boards.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, BlueScope819 said:

To directly answer your question, it uses an M.2 module (B key I think) to add wifi expansion. Also just generally I would hold on for 4th gen Ryzen

Im pretty sure its a and e keys, those are most common for wifi. B is normally sata + pcie x2 for storage.

[NumLock21]

Z490 chipset itself has support for built in WiFi,  It’s the Intel Wi-Fi 6 CNVi that can be used with something like the Intel AX200 wireless module.

[xg32]

avoid the low end asrock boards for z490, coming from a long-time asrock buyer