Asus Z390 boards listed

[NumLock21]

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ASUS has published a list of its upcoming motherboards powered by Intel’s yet-not-announced Z390 chipset. As expected, the company will offer several families of platforms featuring over a dozen of models aimed at different market segments and supporting different features.

ASUS intends to offer Intel Z390-based motherboards across five families of its products. The top-of-the-range Z390 offerings aimed at enthusiasts and overclockers will be marketed as the ROG Maximus XI series. For gamers and enthusiasts ASUS will offer four ROG Strix Z390 mainboards in different form-factors. For gamers with lower budgets the company will release eight Z390 motherboards under the TUF and Prime brands. In addition, there will be a single Z390 Dragon mainboard that will be available only in China.

 

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13130/asus-publishes-list-of-upcoming-intel-z390based-motherboards

 

 

[Brehohn]

Oooh these are DEFINITELY worth the upgrade from Z370 to Z390.

Right?

My thing is, if both boards support the 9th gen CPU's, which Gigabyte already released their "future compatibility" BIOS update like MSI did, then no one is going to need these unless they offer some sort of benefit.

What is Intel doing over there?

[GDRRiley]

cool, i'm still not going to change my CPU platform. 

[GoldenLag]

Its nice for intel to make the board partners release Mobos that will allways have the correct BIOS version to support the CPUs

[GoldenLag]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

cool, i'm still not going to change my CPU platform. 

Well its not like there has been a release of a "new" platform. We are still using Mobos from 2017

[TVwazhere]

6 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

In addition, there will be a single Z390 Dragon mainboard that will be available only in China.

So What board did you go with?

 

The Asus DRAGON

 

Oddly enough I'm listening to Power Metal as I'm reading this which makes it much more awesome. I do wonder if they will fall more towards Prime Level, or if it will be even cheaper.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Nice, not that I'm going to upgrade

 

Also, Z390 DRAGON ... @msi

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

So What board did you go with?

 

The Asus DRAGON

 

Oddly enough I'm listening to Power Metal as I'm reading this which makes it much more awesome. I do wonder if they will fall more towards Prime Level, or if it will be even cheaper.

It's their Prime Level. Here is Z370 Dragon. The board looks similar to their Z370P with a different heatsink design.

https://www.asus.com.cn/Motherboards/Z370-DRAGON/

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Z370-P/overview/

[dizmo]

I wonder what this means for compatibility with the older Z370. Hopefully they don't decide to change anything that we know already; the 8 core being compatible with Z370.

Though, I also can't see them making an entire new chipset for a single CPU.

It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. Nice to see that we'll have tons of board selection.

 

2 hours ago, Brehohn said:

Oooh these are DEFINITELY worth the upgrade from Z370 to Z390.

Right?

My thing is, if both boards support the 9th gen CPU's, which Gigabyte already released their "future compatibility" BIOS update like MSI did, then no one is going to need these unless they offer some sort of benefit.

What is Intel doing over there?

New builds. They do have a few niceties over the Z370 boards.

Why do people always assume new stuff comes out to entice people who just built a system?

2 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

cool, i'm still not going to change my CPU platform. 

That's not really why they update the platform It's more for people who are building new systems.

[Stefan Payne]

3 hours ago, Brehohn said:

Oooh these are DEFINITELY worth the upgrade from Z370 to Z390.
Right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Especially since the features since the P55 were dramatically increased, except for higher speed connections of course, there is nothing the same, isn't it?

 

3 hours ago, Brehohn said:

What is Intel doing over there?

Getting you to pay them more money for essentially nothing.

 

What does the Z390 do?
Where's the Advantage over the Z390??

[NumLock21]

Z390 has native wifi and Bluetooth, but they still have it as a optional feature. 

 

[mrthuvi]

4 hours ago, Brehohn said:

Oooh these are DEFINITELY worth the upgrade from Z370 to Z390.

Right?

My thing is, if both boards support the 9th gen CPU's, which Gigabyte already released their "future compatibility" BIOS update like MSI did, then no one is going to need these unless they offer some sort of benefit.

What is Intel doing over there?

It's to replace z370 line up for NEW builders that don't have worry about compatibility (bios update). The same way AMD released x470 to replace x370 with exactly 1 change, slightly better memory suppport.

[Brehohn]

Definitely not buying that board. Its extremely pointless. I see the benefit for people that brand new builders and that's it.

[Stefan Payne]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Z390 has native wifi and Bluetooth, but they still have it as a optional feature. 

 

And what does *5 say?!

My guess would be that its NOT integrated at all.

[Dylanc1500]

17 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

And what does *5 say?!

My guess would be that its NOT integrated at all.

The same as Q370. It's referring to the fact "Bluetooth" is owned by someone else and that it is version 5.0 compatible. That's why they have it after PCI Express as well.

[NumLock21]

10 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

And what does *5 say?!

My guess would be that its NOT integrated at all.

The 5 means it supports Bluetooth 5.0. The chipset has built in support for Intel wifi and BT, but it seems it's up to the board makers, to decide if they want to use this feature or not.

[Stefan Payne]

5 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

The 5 means it supports Bluetooth 5.0. The chipset has built in support for Intel wifi and BT, but it seems it's up to the board makers, to decide if they users to use this feature or not.

Do you have any proof of that?
Because it can also be something that is bundled with the Chipset, can't it?

[mr moose]

Good old Asus, 15 $300+ mobo's on offer when an $80 board would suffice for 99% of gamers.

[cj09beira]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

Good old Asus, 15 $300+ mobo's on offer when an $80 board would suffice for 99% of gamers.

maybe if you plan on selling your pc in the near future but for those that want a pc to last those boards dont cut it, 

[NumLock21]

2 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Do you have any proof of that?
Because it can also be something that is bundled with the Chipset, can't it?

Proof of what?

[Stefan Payne]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Proof of what?

That it is integrated in the Chipset and not an external Chip.

[NumLock21]

5 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

That it is integrated in the Chipset and not an external Chip.

@Dylanc1500

Mentioned about the q370 also with wifi and bt. Asus q370 has a m.2 dedicated for that.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-Q370M-C/

 

Z390 is the second generation of high-end chipset for Intel’s 300-series platform for Coffee Lake desktop processors. It builds on Z370 in two obvious areas: chipset support for up to six USB 3.1 (10 Gbps) ports, and introduces a built in wireless networking MAC for dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi use via Intel’s new integrated connectivity feature. This uses Intel’s 802.11ac Wave 2 configuration, suitable for up to 160 MHz wireless bands. These additions mirror what we saw when Intel launched the low-range and mid-range chipsets such as H370, B360, and H310, in early April.

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12750/intel-releases-z390-chipset-product-information

[Stefan Payne]

18 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

@Dylanc1500

Mentioned about the q370 also with wifi and bt. Asus q370 has a m.2 dedicated for that.

See, not integrated but Bundeled.

Ever heard about Intel Centrino??

[NumLock21]

20 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

See, not integrated but Bundeled.

Ever heard about Intel Centrino??

It need a specific set of intel wifi module to be able to tap into the built in wifi MAC that's on the chipset. 

Centrino? Yea, i've heard of it as well as Centrino 2 and Centrino Pro.

[AnonymousGuy]

I'm mildly annoyed at the fact that there's 15 ATX boards listed.  For fuck's sake Asus just release like 3 boards, it's a major turnoff to the brand because I don't want to spend 2 hours trying to figure out what the fuck the difference is between Strix-E and Strix-F  and Strix-G and Code Hero whatever the fuck.

 

They don't even publish what the differences are, you'll have 4 boards with pretty much the exact same spec list and have to ask them directly to find out that the difference is one heatsink or VRM design.