At a midrange price, the Asus ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming looks, feels, and operates like a top-end Intel motherboard with just a few of the premium bells and whistles knocked off. It’s an ideal-balance ATX board for 10th Generation Intel chips, and it performed flawlessly in our tests.
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ASUS ROG Strix Z490-E can accommodate up to two NVMe storage devices, all cooled with heatsinks. This board features an Intel WiFi 6 adapter and one 2.5 GigE Ethernet port. The dark looking and ROG themed motherboard can be customized LEDs wise with Aura Sync and the onboard Gen 2 addressable RGB LED headers.
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With the Z490 proving reliable in performance we were naturally curious as to whether the latest addition to the Strix range continues its excellent showing and if dropping down the price range has an effect on anything other than how many LAN sockets there are. Let’s find out.
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ASUS has kept the feature set focused on what your typical gamer would need. There’s both Intel LAN and WiFi 6, which are more than fast enough, but no 2.5G or 5G option here like on the more expensive boards. There’s great overclocking support, fast memory support, and rather fantastic audio hardware ready right out of the box though.
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Intel’s new 400-series platform has kicked off with Z490 platform, promising next generation performance, especially when paired with 10th-Generation Intel CPUs. In this case we are looking at ASUS’ latest dive into the world of PC backbones, and the venerated motherboard manufacturer has really pulled a home run with the ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming.
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The ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E Gaming is our first look at ASUS’s new Z490 lineup. The STRIX family bridges the gap between the excellent value of TUF series boards and the no-expense-spared MAXIMUS series boards. This middle ground is perfect for high-end builds where budget is still a factor, but so are aesthetics and a broad feature set.
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