Product Showcase
Product Showcase
The audio solution is hidden right under the front side of the PCIe slots and based on a Realtek ALC 1200 CODEC.
You can spot higher grade capacitors, suited for high-grade audio equipment to provide rich sound in the bass range and clearer high frequencies.
Check the heatsinks, pretty industrial design. Take note of the metal cover on the primary x16 PCI-Express slot. They provide sturdier and stronger slots, handy for very heavy graphics cards.
One connector is present to the power that processor of yours one, 8-pin, just using one 8-pin connector is plenty though.
The motherboard phase power delivery design for the processor based on digital power controllers. The Z390 Steel legend has 8 IR Digital VRMs. Strangely enough, they are not covering the chokes with a heatsink though. We'll look with thermal imaging what effect that will have.
