The Intel Z590 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Detailed
by Gavin Bonshor on January 19, 2021 10:15 AM ESTBiostar Racing Z590GTA
The last of the trio of motherboards from Biostar is the Racing Z590GTA. Based on its competitive racing themed series, Biostar has opted for a premium controller set on the ATX Z590GTA, with features including support for DDR4-5000 memory, a Realtek 2.5 GbE controller, and three PCIe M.2 slots.
Adopting a modern and interesting aesthetic, the Biostar Racing Z590GTA has diagonally imprinted blue and gray accents across the rear panel cover and M.2 heatsinks. The rear panel and chipset heatsink looks like it includes integrated RGB LEDs. For storage, the Biostar Racing Z590GTA uses a trio of M.2 slots, including one PCIe 4.0 x4 and two PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA slots. When using SATA drives in the supported M.2 slots, these will share bandwidth with the SATA ports, with six in total that can accommodate RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays.
Providing power to the CPU is an 8-pin and 4-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input pairing, with a 24-pin 12 V ATX motherboard power input on the right-hand side. Above this is four memory slots capable of DDR4-5000 memory, with a maximum supported capacity of up to 128 GB. Towards the board's center is a full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with a second full-length PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots.
The rear panel includes one USB 3.2 G2x2 Type-C, two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and two USB 2.0 ports. There is a trifecta of video outputs consisting of a DVI-D, HDMI 2.0, and DisplayPort, with three 3.5 mm audio jacks powered by a Realtek ALC1220 HD audio codec. Biostar uses a Realtek RTL8125B 2.5 GbE controller, with two antenna ports for an unknown wireless CNVi, while a PS/2 combo port and pre-attached rear I/O shield finish off the rear panel.
Biostar hasn't shared any information on pricing at the time of writing.
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Oxford Guy - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link
You’ll never be able to block all the spyware with a firewall. Windows is just one component of it. Don’t forget things like stealth CPUs that are built into the CPU, like the little friend on Lando’s shoulder. Etc.lmcd - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link
What, the tinfoil hat isn't enough anymore? The "spyware" is just as present on any Windows era.If you want to disable built in telemetry, pay for pro and disable it in the registry. It's not hard if you're really that into privacy.
Spunjji - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
@lmcd - but that would require *effort* - why waste that effort on customising a modern OS, when he could expend more effort cobbling together a barely-working platform on a 12-year-old one? 😂Makaveli - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
lol all I saw in my head reading those post are "old man yells at clouds"Oxford Guy - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
That’s due to the fact that the old man has just as much chance of getting the spyware out of Windows and CPUs (and the rest) as you lot have a chance of saying something relevant.Oxford Guy - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Call us when the shuttle lands, Pauline.Slash3 - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link
Z590 only provides six native SATA ports.ASRock's Z590 Taichi has eight ports, with two via an ASMedia ASM1061 controller.
Silver5urfer - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
Got it thanks. I suppose that's how the EVGA Dark got it's 8 SATA ports too.weilin - Thursday, April 29, 2021 - link
Z590, if i remember correctly... has 30 HSIO lanes total:6 of which are dedicated to USB (and can be ganged in pairs for 20Gb/s ports)
4 more that is either USB 10Gb/s or 5Gb/s or PCIe.
2 of them which can be Ethernet or PCIe,
2 of them which can be SATA, Ethernet, or PCIe.
6 of them which can be SATA or PCIe.
10 dedicated PCIe
So everything all together means theoretically maximum of:
4 LAN ports
8 SATA ports
10 USB ports
24 PCIe ports
It's up to motherboard manufacturers to configure them as they see fit. It seems like the popular choice is to maximize USB, leave SATA at 6 and put the rest on PCIe ports (take 1 or 2 away for Ethernet, and 4 away for Thunderbolt if present).
weilin - Thursday, April 29, 2021 - link
If anyone's interested in see the doc:https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/produc...
On to left its under "Technical Documentation" -> "Intel® 500 Series Chipset Family Platform Controller Hub Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2" -> bottom of page 18