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/

A lot of people are looking forward to this!

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

Looking them over they have a lot to like. It really has lots of great features that people will really want.

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?

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

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.

I was thinking I seen an article where some or all of the z490 boards would be PCIe 4.0 with a bios update later on but it might have been something else I was reading.

sweet

PCIE 4.0 is supported on some Motherboards I think.
This is a bit fuzzy on all the documentation out there
 
The Intel Chipset 490 is PCIE 3.0
 
BUT the Comet Lake CPU does not.
The Rocket Lake cpu will support 4.0
 
So you could build and swap out CPU's later I suppose.
That may end up being my plan as my PC is now 7-8 years old.
Still runs great but really ready for serious upgrade as I have several
projects I would like to do but really need the added improvement of cores and threads.
 
I am also hoping to see Intel XE DG2's listed soon as interested in that for the upgrade
as well