MSI Previews MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III Motherboard
TapTechNews on May 17th, MSI today teased the MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III motherboard. The biggest feature of this motherboard is that it has replaced with Realtek's 5G wired network card.
In addition to supporting 5G wired network, this motherboard also uses Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 wireless network card and Realtek ALC4080 sound card.
TapTechNews sorted out the specifications of this motherboard as follows:
PCB Design and Memory
The MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III adopts an 8-layer PCB design and is covered with 2 ounces of copper foil. This motherboard adopts a 19+1+1-phase power supply design, and the core part is equipped with 105A Dr. MOS.
In terms of memory, the MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III motherboard is equipped with 4 DDR5 memory slots, and supports up to DDR5-7800 memory overclocking.
PCIe and Storage
The MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III has 3 PCIe slots, of which the top main PCIe slot is alloy-reinforced and supports PCIe Gen5, the second slot is PCIe Gen3 x1, and the third is a physical x16 PCIe Gen4 x4.
This motherboard provides 5 M.2 slots, including one PCIe Gen5 x4 slot from the CPU, one Gen4 x4 slot from the CPU and three Gen4 x4 slots from the chipset.
In addition, MSI also provides 6 SATA interfaces for this motherboard.
IO Connection
The MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III is configured with 2 USB Type-A 5Gbps interfaces, 6 USB Type-A 10Gbps interfaces, 1 USB Type-C 10Gbps interface and 1 USB Type-C 20Gbps interface on the rear IO panel.
In terms of the front connector pins, this motherboard provides 4 sets of USB 2.0 connector pins, 2 sets of USB Type-A 5Gbps connector pins and 1 set of USB Type-C 20Gbps connector pin.
Others
The MPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI III motherboard includes a complimentary USB4 expansion card that can be installed on the third PCIe slot of this motherboard.
This expansion card can provide 2 USB4 interfaces and 2 DP1.4 interfaces. After connecting the PCIe 6-pin auxiliary power supply cable, the first Type-C interface can provide 100W PD power supply, and the second interface can also provide 27W PD output.