Intel Z390 Chipset Product Brief and Block Diagram posted

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/14/2018 07:32 AM | source: | 20 comment(s)

Intel on its website has published a page on the Z390 chipset, including a chipset block diagram showing all connections. Z390 will support all Coffee Lake generation desktop processors but would also be compatible for the next-generation.

Z390 has been discussed a lot, it should be a chipset intended for 8-core Coffee Lake CPUs, but these are not expected to launch anytime soon. Z390 will get an LGA1151 socket using the traditional DMI 3.0 chipset-bus (which basically is an x4 PCIe link lane up/downlink. Similar to the Z370 chipset, it'll have 24 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes. Also similar is storage at six SATA 6 Gbps ports with AHCI and RAID support; and up to three 32 Gbps M.2/U.2 connectors. LAN remains the same as well. 1 GbE, Intel recommends their Wireless-AC 9560 card for the motherboard manufacturers to pair this chipset with for 802.11ac and Bluetooth 5. Some differences are spotted though, USB is configured at six 10 Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, ten 5 Gbps USB 3.1 gen 1 ports.

All in all, there are very little changes, other than new CPU support. You can find more info here.

Above Intel Z390

Above (for comparison) Z370

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tunejunky
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#5546644 Posted on: 05/14/2018 04:00 PM

to me this is another Intel fail.
socket 1151 could easily have been fully compatible, excepting of course, chipset sales.
with the new AM4 X470 boards at least we have a feature set that will be used by over 50% of people buying them with backwards and forwards compatibility.
with that said, pcie/U2 storage prices are falling faster than knickers at a rave.
whether or not people *need* hyper-fast storage is irrelevant. people *want* it, or to be able to add it at a later date.

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#5546691 Posted on: 05/14/2018 06:28 PM

wait the Z370 has 6 SATA 3's with 1-2 M.2 slots... how is that not enough for you?

It s not that simple,cause you see some SATA are disabled when you use the m.2 slot etc.So in my setup i have only 4 available SATA connectors plus the most but not all of PCIE.So the theoretical numbers are different from what u can actually use and it depends of what and how much you use.
So to cut a long story short,yes i would like Z390 to have more.Maybe its the Gigabyte board i have (Z370 Aorus Gaming 7) that limits the options down but still it doesnt suit me fine with no compromises made.

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#5546799 Posted on: 05/15/2018 06:37 AM

I'm really interested to why people need so many PCIE lanes, I mean SLI and crossfire are dead basically. we have m.2 now and SATA SSDs are plenty fast. please help me understand

i am agree with you about multiple GPU.
Despite not adding too much in real condition, people might want to use full speed PCIe 3.0 x 16 With NVMe... wich is impossible with Z390.
A bit heretic on an high end mobo... I was expecting more too.

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#5546802 Posted on: 05/15/2018 06:58 AM

I'm really interested to why people need so many PCIE lanes, I mean SLI and crossfire are dead basically. we have m.2 now and SATA SSDs are plenty fast. please help me understand

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#5546811 Posted on: 05/15/2018 07:37 AM

think big dude... if u using ur usage as model, then u wont find need more
most people wont use up all those lanes TRUE
but for some people, they need more lanes also TRUE

but again intel need to give a bump (more) pci lane, not for real-use but simply for upgrade-term, got what i mean ?
well amd X399 got total 64 lanes right ?

if we talk intel X299, it can get max 68 lanes? (cmiiw) but again it need i9 $2000 cpu
Well I assume people wants improvement in any aspect of the platform as time goes on....my fear is that the Z series which is the only MBs you can OC with intel will be more expensive with more PCIe /PCH lanes, making overclocking on intel platform more irrelevent but its probably intel's greed there.

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