The Intel Z590 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Detailed

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• WaltC - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link

  If my x570 Aorus Master fan is "active", it has sure fooled me...;) It is not audible.

• Makaveli - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link

  I'm on a Asus Prime X570-Pro for just over a year now and I've not heard the chipset fan once totally overblown issue. Drama queens!

• Samus - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link

  I think it's impressive Intel kept a PCIe4.0 chipset down to 6w TDP. Definitely doesn't need active cooling.

• Slash3 - Sunday, January 24, 2021 - link

  The chipset isn't Gen4.

• Spunjji - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link

  Not surprised if they're expecting users to overclock chips that will exceed 200W at stock settings. 😬

• YB1064 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link

  Is it just me or are the MSRPs listed utterly insane? Intel has been relegated to a poor man's AMD, yet these crazy prices? As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.

• Samus - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link

  I don't think it's actually the chipset costs that are inflating the price of the boards, but the ridiculous power circuit and components required to deliver over 200w of power to the CPU's in order for these board makers to take advantage of PL2.

• fundead - Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - link

  I thought the active fan is for the 10 gig networking chip. It is facing that heatsink which is right next to the vrm heatsink.

• damianrobertjones - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link

  Looking at the prices, I'm really, REALLY glad that I bought an AORUS Z490 Elite (£154, new) from eBay. I just don't understand the prices.

• aidan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link

  I've just done exactly the same, no regrets whatsoever