CES 2021: the Intel Z590 motherboards are here, and they’re looking pretty

At CES 2021, motherboard aesthetics are on point

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AtCES 2021,Intelgave a bit of a tease about 11th-generationRocket Lake-Sprocessors, spearheaded by the Intel Core i9-11900K. But a processor can only go so far without one of thebest motherboards, and hot on the heels of that new processor announcement, we’ve started to see some of the upcoming 500-series ‘board designs.

Asus,MSI, Colorful and more have all launched 500-series motherboards at CES 2021, and some of the Z590 motherboards are looking sharp indeed. These motherboards will be backwards compatible with current Intel 10th-generationComet Lake-Sprocessors, of course, but they’re fully enabled with all the features of the upcoming 11th-generation chips.

Namely, these motherboards will have native support for PCIe 4.0, something that was missing from Comet Lake-S – even thoughAMD-equipped motherboards have been compatible with this technology since mid-2019. Intel Rocket Lake-S will also natively support faster memory – up to DDR4-3200 from DDR4-2933.

We don’t know when these motherboards will actually make it to market, as that entirely depends on when Intel launches its 11th-generation platform. However, Intel is claiming that Rocket Lake-S is launching in Q1 2021, so we’ll likely see these motherboards launch sooner rather than later.

To give you a glimpse of the new designs, we’ve included a slideshow down below, so you can see what upcominggaming PCswill be showing off through their tempered glass side panels.

Asus Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial

Asus Prime Z590-A

Asus ROG Strix Z590-E Gaming

Asus ROG Strix Z590-A Gaming

Colorful iGame Z590 Vulcan W

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