ASUS ROG Strix Z590-I Gaming WIFI

The ASUS ROG Strix Z590-I Gaming WIFI is the brand's premium mini-ITX offering, with a true focus on high-end small form factor systems. It uses an all-black design, with elements of the ROG Strix design over a mesh-covered rear panel cover, with an RGB enabled ROG logo built unto the combined M.2 and chipset heatsink.

Along the bottom of the board is a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with two stacked M.2 slots, with one operating at PCIe 4.0 x4, and the other with PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA support. The right-hand side is four straight-angled SATA ports, with support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. Memory support is great as expected for an ASUS mini-ITX model, with speeds of up to DDR4-5333 and up to 64 GB of capacity. ASUS is also advertising a 10-phase power delivery in an 8+2 configuration, with one 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input delivering the necessary power to the processor.

On the rear panel are one Thunderbolt 4 Type-C port, with one USB 3.2 G2x2 Type-C, one USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, one USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and four USB 2.0 ports. For users planning to take advantage of Intel's integrated graphics is an HDMI 2.0 video output, while three gold plated and illuminated 3.5 mm audio jacks are powered by a Realtek ALC4080 HD audio codec and Savitech SV3H712 amplifier. ASUS uses an Intel I225-V 2.5 GbE controller, with an Intel AX210 Wi-Fi 6E CNVi, which also adds BT 5.2 device connectivity. Finishing off the rear panel is a small BIOS Flashback button.

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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

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