MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Plus Motherboard

GAME IN STYLE

The MPG series brings out the best in gamers by allowing full expression in color with advanced RGB lighting control and synchronization. Experiment on another level of personalization with a front LED strip that provides convenient in-game and real time notifications. With the MPG series, transform your equipment into the center of attention and top leaderboards in style.

THERMAL SOLUTION FOR MORE CORES AND HIGHER PERFORMANCE

With more cores’ processors, thermal and power design is more important to make sure the temperature keeps lower. MSI extended PWM heatsink and enhanced circuit design ensures even high-end processors to run in full speed with MSI motherboards.

M.2 SHIELD FROZR

World’s fastest SSDs can start to lower performance when getting hot. Part of the motherboards heatsink design, M.2 SHIELD FROZR is the next generation M.2 thermal solution to avoid this by offering the best thermal protection to make sure that SSD maintains maximum performance.

FULLY CONTROLLABLE IN BIOS AND SOFTWARE

MSI motherboards let you manage speeds and temperatures for all your system and CPU fans. Total Fan Control allows you to check your primary system characteristics in a simplified graphical interface. You can also set up to 4 temperature targets for CPU and motherboard, which will adjust the fan speeds automatically.

DIY 2.0 – INTEGRATING WITH THE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT

Connect and synchronize with MSI coolers and cases with strategically positioned pin-header locations including a dedicated pump-fan header.

EXTREME STABILITY & COMPATIBILITY TESTING

MSI conducts thorough memory testing with the most popular memory brands under extreme conditions to ensure your system runs stable no matter what. Our memory partners include brands like Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, G.Skill and many more to optimize memory modules, configurations and even improve overclocking.

HIGH-BANDWIDTH AND LOW-LATENCY NETWORK

2.5Gbps LAN provides incredible data transfer speed faster than general Gigabit LAN. This is a premium solution for demanding users.

Specifications

• SOCKET : 1200

• CPU (MAX SUPPORT) : i9

• CHIPSET : Intel® Z490 Chipset

• DDR4 MEMORY : 5000(OC)/ 4800(OC)/ 4600(OC)/ 4533(OC)/ 4400(OC)/ 4300(OC)/ 4266(OC)/ 4200(OC)/ 4133(OC)/ 4000(OC)/ 3866(OC)/ 3733(OC)/ 3600(OC)/ 3466(OC)/ 3400(OC)/ 3333(OC)/ 3300(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2933(JEDEC)/ 2666(JEDEC)/ 2400(JEDEC)/ 2133(JEDEC) MHz

• MEMORY CHANNEL :  Dual

• DIMM SLOTS : 4

• MAX MEMORY (GB) :  128

• PCI-E X16 : 2

• PCI-E GEN  : Gen3

• PCI-E X1 : 3

• SATAIII : 6

• M.2 SLOT : 2

• RAID : 0/1/5/10

• TPM (HEADER) :  1

• LAN : 1x Realtek® RTL8125B 2.5G LAN

• USB 3.2 PORTS (FRONT) :  1(Gen 1, Type C), 4(Gen 1, Type A)

• USB 3.2 PORTS (REAR) :  1(Gen 2, Type C), 1(Gen 2, Type A), 2(Gen 1, Type A)

• USB 2.0 PORTS (FRONT) :  4

• USB 2.0 PORTS (REAR) :  2

• SERIAL PORTS(FRONT) :  1

• AUDIO PORTS (REAR) :  5+ Optical S/PDIF (Realtek® ALC1200 Codec)

• DISPLAYPORT : 1

• HDMI : 1

• DIRECTX : 12

• FORM FACTOR  : ATX

• CROSSFIRE :  Y

• OPERATING SYSTEM  : Support for Windows® 10 64-bit