The EVGA Z490 Motherboards are here.
Powered by the latest 10th Generation Intel® Core i9 processors, these motherboards put the power back in your hands. Game, stream, create, work, or just browse the web – these motherboards will be front and center to handle everything you can throw at them.
 
The New Desktop Powerhouse!!
 
Learn more here: https://www.evga.com/articles/01409/evga-z490/

Wishing for a Z490 Classy board to upgrade my Z370 board... but I guess the FTW will do just fine if I was to. the Dark would be amazing but I think it would be outside budget

rjohnson11
A lot of people are looking forward to this!

Really? Why?
 
There is basically nothing new, the only difference is that the CPUs have two more cores and that's it.
In comparison to other manufacturers I am not seeing any information about PCIe 4.0, does EVGA support it with the upcoming Rocket Lake CPUs?
Or is another MoBo required?

apsese
So all the new 10th gen intel chips need new board (like this one)?

Yup, new socket.... Z390 uses LGA 1151 socket, the new Z490 will make use of LGA 1200.

sweet

I need this feature explained 
 
Realtek 7.1 Channel HD Audio + EVGA NU Audio
 
I own a EVGA NU Audio. 
is this on the Motherboard?
or works with the EVGA NU Audio Card?

random_matt
So when are any of these Z490 (Any brand) boards available to buy?

end of May... the CPU line up doesnt come out until the 21st of May i think it is ... so i doubt that they will release boards much sooner at all than that
 

Looks like MSI, AsRock and Gigabyte are supporting PCI-E 4.0 hardware on their boards for future compatiblity with Rocket Lake which will support PCIE 4.0. So far it appears Asus has no hardware support mentioned anywhere in their marketing materials, and EVGA appears to not have any mention of hardware support either. This is a big deal for longevity of the board, future expansion, so you don't need to purchase a new motherboard down the road that just to get the features other vendors are offering now with Z490.
 
Simple question, do EVGA Z490 boards also have the hardware and will they be supporting PCIE 4.0 with a future BIOS update like the other vendors?

The prices for the z390s are $230 for the FTW, and $500 for the dark, I'd expect prices to be around that for the z490 here as well.

Key specs say "• PCI Express® 3.0 Ready" I wonder if it is a typo and should read PCI Express 3.0 / 4.0 Ready

Anyone else notice the Dark is a z490 ATX board with just 2 dimm slots? Are they saying people should use 2 x 8gb stick and stay at a max of 16gb or spend more for 16gb and 32gb sticks? And if they want to put 2 dimms why not make it micro or mini-itx? seems like a waste to only have 2 dimms on an atx board. 

kcwilsonii
I need this feature explained 
 
Realtek 7.1 Channel HD Audio + EVGA NU Audio
 
I own a EVGA NU Audio. 
is this on the Motherboard?
or works with the EVGA NU Audio Card?

It's a gimmick. It's NOT anywhere close to the same as a standalone NU Audio card. It's just onboard realtek audio with a couple extra capacitors or something. Total marketing gimmick.

Please make an itx again, love EVGA but I can’t let go of itx.

cateno
hello
I hope this board go to EU the Z390 not sold in EU ...

Not sure why it wouldn't it a new socket compared to the z390

Any guess as to when a Micro ATX board would be announced?
 
10.5 year old PC should probably be replaced.