Take your gaming experience to the limit with the MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE LGA 1200 E-ATX Motherboard. Designed for high-end gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators, this E-ATX motherboard takes full advantage of the Intel Z490 chipset to support 10th generation Intel processors with the LGA 1200 socket. Up to 128GB of dual-channel DDR4 XMP memory, reaching 5000 MHz when overclocked, can be installed across four memory slots, allowing you to smoothly run complex 3D games with expansive environments and smoothly multitask demanding applications. The MEG Z490 GODLIKE also features advanced cooling with support for up to three M.2 solid-state drives and six SATA III storage drives, which can be put into RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10 configuration. An included M.2 XPANDER-Z Gen 4 S card offers two extra M.2 slots with a dedicated cooling fan. The motherboard has three PCIe 4.0 x16 slots can accommodate 2-way NVIDIA SLI or 3-way AMD CrossFire configurations to maximize your system’s graphical capabilities for high frame rates, connecting 4K and 8K monitors, and faster video rendering times. An additional PCIe 3.0 x1 slot is available for compatible expansion cards.
The MEG Z490 GODLIKE also pairs the Realtek ALC1220 audio codec with an ESS SABRE E9018Q2C DAC chip to deliver deep and immersive 7.1-channel surround sound. Other features include superfast network connections via the wired Aquantia 10 Gigabit and Realtek 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports in addition to the built-in 802.11ax Wi-Fi. The motherboard’s colorful OLED panel display can be configured to show system information or customized with animated GIFs. You can further customize your computing experience using the RGB headers to connect light strips, which can be synced with compatible peripherals such as mice and keyboards. Windows 10 or Windows 7 64-bit is required to take advantage of all the motherboard’s features.
Kenton Collins (verified owner) –
B&H were excellent and even assisted with RMA, but I was able to correct/straighten pins in USB 3.2 port. This motherboard is a beast, with great BIOS, but be very careful with ports. This came bad, but the position allows for easily being damaged in shipping or packaging.