ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING
The motherboard comes with 6 x custom SATA cables, WiFi antenna, streaming card, SLI HB bridge, M.2 Xpander-Z card, 1/4-inch to 3.5mm jack converter, RGB LED extension cable, addressable RGB extension cables, 2 x external temperature probes, case badge, manuals, cable stickers, and GPU poster. These accessories themself cost quite a lot and if you are someone who is not going to use any of these accessories, then perhaps you should look at some other motherboard that is a lot cheaper.
The motherboard has an E-ATX for factor, which makes it larger than the rest of the motherboard on the list and has one 24-pin power connector (next to the DIMM slots), two 8-pin power connectors, present along the VRM and another 6-pin power connector, present along the first M.2 slot. This makes the motherboard capable of handling very heavy power loads. There are five PCI Express slots in the motherboard, where four of them are reinforced with metal and are PCI-E 3.0 X16 while the fifth of them is PCI-E 3.0 X1. Moreover, there are three M.2 slots in the motherboard with each of them having their own heat-sinks for effective operation. There are six SATA III ports in the motherboard, which is similar configuration to most of the other motherboards.
Coming towards the I/O of the motherboard, we come to know that there are no ports for display because the company expects the user to use dedicated graphics cards. There are 7 x audio ports, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, 2 x LAN ports, 2 x antenna ports, a PS/2 port, a Flash BIOS button, and a clear CMOS button. It is important to note that the motherboard uses two audio chipsets (Realtek ALC1220), two LAN chipsets, and Killer 1550 chipset for WLAN. The motherboard supports 2-way NVIDIA SLI and 4-way AMD CrossFireX technologies. There is a whopping number of fan headers on the motherboard; in total, ten of them, where all of them support PWM and DC modes.
The best thing about this motherboard is that it comes with top-notch VRM. The motherboard has a 14-phase power delivery, where nothing is used for the iGPU, as there are no ports to display. This great power delivery ensures the best possible overclock and you would be theoretically limited to the potential of your processor only. With a motherboard like this, Intel Core i7-9700K should be able to hit even up to 5.5 GHz if you got a silicon lottery.
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