EVGA has launched its EVGA Z490 Dusky Okay|NGP|N diminutive edition motherboard with a spotlight squarely on gross overclocking, exceptional savor the EVGA Z490 Dusky mannequin ahead of it.
The E-ATX motherboard is a collaboration between EVGA and one in all its longtime employees, Vince ‘Okay|NGP|N’ Lucido, widely thought to be one in all the most attention-grabbing sub-zero overclockers available. The board goals to fabricate it a exiguous more uncomplicated to copy Okay|NGP|N’s previous efforts with everything about it tweaked with overclocking in mind, whereas seeming remarkably familiar to of us which secure spotted the Z490 Dusky motherboard ahead of.
It affords 18-section vitality transport, along with some unconventional produce picks too. Shall we embrace, it has factual two reminiscence slots which are mounted horizontally across the head of the board, factual above the LGA1200 socket. It be all designed to make stronger airflow even supposing you might secure to be particular the chassis works as properly alongside this thought. The reminiscence slots are ready to soak as a lot as 64GB of DDR4-5000 even supposing it be expected that overclockers will almost absolutely push these speeds a great bit further than that. That’s furthermore the attach the EVGA Z490 Dusky Okay|NGP|N differs from the Z490 Dusky ahead of it because it helps DIMMs as a lot as five,000MHz in comparison with its predecessor’s 4,800Mhz.
Within the head correct corner of the motherboard is 2 2-digit debug LEDs for monitoring CPU voltage and temperature too. It furthermore beneficial properties some convenient onboard buttons for clearing the CMOS and long-established resets for when it be foremost to fabricate some tweaks, along with triple BIOS crimson meat up. That you just will be ready to furthermore disable PCIe slots as and when foremost.
Besides such particular overclocking adjustments, the EVGA Z490 Dusky Okay|NGP|N furthermore has heaps going for it with other beneficial properties. That involves storage alternate ideas savor two PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots, one U.2 port, and eight SATA ports. Six of the eight SATA ports crimson meat up RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays whereas an ASMedia SATA controller handles the opposite two.
You furthermore accept three plump-length PCIe 3.0 slots which operate at x16, x8/x8 and x8/x8/+4 as properly as one half-length PCIe 3.0 x4 slot. There might be furthermore a 2.5G Ethernet controller and Wi-Fi 6 crimson meat up, along with 7.1 channel audio from Realtek.
Understandably then, given the diminutive edition/gross overclocking attitude of the EVGA Z490 Dusky Okay|NGP|N, it be no longer cheap. It be within the intervening time readily accessible straight from EVGA for $600. Given the EVGA Z490 Dusky mannequin is $100 less for what appears to be like to be like almost savor the identical board (outside of the reminiscence slot tweaks), we’re hoping the Okay|NGP|N model is offering better factors across the board (pun no longer intended) reasonably than simply rather of extra advertising and the addition of Okay|NGP|N’s hand-signed identify on the box.
