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amazon Asus TUF Gaming Z490-Plus reviews
In addition to the Z490 gaming motherboards with beautiful and impressive designs, ASUS also brings the new TUF Gaming Z490-Plus motherboard. However, it does not have many design highlights, still ensures the power and reliability enduring.
It can be said that the TUF series is not invested much in design by ASUS but instead focuses on product quality and durability. The same goes for TUF Gaming Z490-Plus, there are not many highlights of flashy design, but the TUF icons and previous TUF products are still enough to create a highlight that is not inferior to other ROG board models.
The TUF Gaming Z490-Plus board doesn’t have as much armor as the ROG series, revealing some areas of capacitors, components, and components. Some users will think that this design is not beautiful, but some find the “nude” of the mainboard extremely sexy when the components are exposed.
Saying “nude,” but ASUS still equips protective armor in some necessary areas. The first is the heatsink area for the VRM with armor with synchronized diagonal cuts, the words TUF Gaming as a highlight. The heatsink area for SSDs is also textured with the TUF series logo and beautiful Z490 letters. All combined to create a clumsy, mechanical appearance but still have all the “high tech” elements.
Regarding the board’s power, TUF Gaming Z490-Plus is equipped with 12 + 2 power phases for the CPU, six layers of PCB, and a monolithic aluminum VRM heatsink that promises not only to bear the power of Intel CPUs. 10th generation and still cool heat dissipation with a built-in 56.7g copper layer.
The TUF Gaming Z490-Plus board has 4 RAM slots with ASUS OptiMem II technology supporting the DDR4 RAM standard with an OC bus up to 4600 MHz+.
TUF Gaming Z490-Plus features two M.2 SSD slots that support data transfer speeds of up to 32Gbps on the x4 PCI Express 3.0 band. The two SSD slots are also covered with protective armor, combined with a bit of heat dissipation for the hard drive.
Our board has two PCIe X16 slots with ASUS SafeSlot technology applied, a technology carefully researched and designed to ensure durability and increase the endurance of the slot.
Finally, in terms of the board’s connectivity, ASUS is still equipped with high-speed connection ports such as 6 USB ports with 1 Type-C 3.2 Gen 2 port for 10Gbps. Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity, high-speed I219-V Ethernet port. Most especially, the TUF Gaming Z490-Plus board also has support for next-generation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 and high-speed Thunderbolt 3 with ultra-wide bandwidth of up to 40Gbps.