MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE flagship motherboard (to cost 960 EUR?)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/20/2020 08:39 AM | source: videocardz.com | 6 comment(s)

There's one more Z490 leak to mention, the LGA1200 based MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE found its way to the web as well. The flagship Comet Lake motherboard looks pretty alright.

You can spot 3x PCIe x16 slots, a triple M.2 slot with an additional M.2 “Xpander-Z Gen 4” card (appears to be the same as on MEG X570 GODLIKE). Interesting is the mention “Gen 4” basically means it’s PCIe 4.0 compatible. In other words, the motherboard could theoretically support PCIe 4.0. The processor (Comet Lake), however, is PCIe Gen 3.0. Perhaps that Rocket Lake processors to be released later will bring that PCIe gen 4.0 compatibility. GODLIKE has a nice OLED display once again. The board also would get dual Thunderbolt 3 slots and 10Gbe Aquantia and 2.5Gbe Ethernet ports. This motherboard is tagged as digital PWN with 16+1+1 (90A) phase design.

Now, wait for it ... momomo_us leaked the European pricing for the MSI Z490 series, the MEG GODLIKE will cost around 960 EUR. yeah, the prices (if correct), do not sit well.

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Kaarme
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#5780928 Posted on: 04/20/2020 09:13 AM

Only looking at the excerpt on the front page, I was going to write a joke here about the mobo needing to support PCIe 4.0, despite the CPU not supporting it, with a price like that, but then it turns out it might not even be a joke.

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#5780948 Posted on: 04/20/2020 10:28 AM

A VRM that can handle up to 1.4KW?? Really? Impressive!

But where will you find those? Under kitchen hobs?

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#5780972 Posted on: 04/20/2020 12:46 PM

HA HA ! i am finding very hard to see many sales of the Z490 and new Cpu`s regardless of pricing.

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#5781056 Posted on: 04/20/2020 05:22 PM

On other hand it is just 160 Euro more than the X570 then the Z490's price make sence...
But i guess you can do almost the same with the around 400 Euro version.

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#5781099 Posted on: 04/20/2020 07:39 PM

It's going to be demigod like once Zen3 lands. Just sayin.

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