Intel Turbo USB 3.2 Gen 2: Powered by IntelUSB 3.2 Gen2 controller, Turbo USB ensures an uninterrupted connection with more stability and fastest USB speeds Premium Thermal Solution: Extended Heatsink DesignandM.2 Shield Frozr are built for high performance system and non-stop works Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital (UK) PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Financial Services Register no. 704348. The register can be accessed through http://www.fca.org.uk In terms of storage support, there aretwo PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots, with four right-angled SATA, and two straight angled SATA ports bringing the total of SATA portsto six. Only the top M.2 slothasa heat sink included, with the six SATA ports garnering support for RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 arrays. Marlin1975 - Friday, May 1, 2020 - link So in other words a re-spin of previous chipset with little to no real useful extra features but will require a new board. Classic intel. This is one of many reasons my last system was Intel and my new system is AMD now.

regsEx - Friday, May 1, 2020 - link New networking controllers, support for PCIe 4 CPUs (RKL-S that will be released in future).

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Looking at MSI's entry-level Z490 model, the MSI Z490-A Pro which is designed for more professional users and content creators, it's interesting to see that MSI has included a single Realtek 2.5 G NIC.Also included are two PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots, six SATA ports, and support for up to 128 GB of DDR4-4800 memory across four slots.