As you can see above, on the whole, many of the

improvements from Z490 to Z590 are

incremental, and they represent one of the

shorter leaps in technology that Intel has taken

between chipsets in some time.

We don’t know a whole lot about the Intel Core

i9-11900K, aside from the little morsels Intel let

drop at its CES 2021 presentation (or about the

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According to a report from Anandtech, both Z490

and Z590 chipsets will support the 10th

Generation Comet Lake-S and 11th Generation

Rocket Lake-S chip families. Things gets a bit

stickier as you go down the line of the 400 Series

chipsets, though, with support for Rocket Lake

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to update their motherboard BIOS to use an 11th

Generation chip on the platform.

The predictable array of Z590 motherboards hit

the wires later in January: The usual major

makers (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Asrock) released

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liquid-cooling block covering the entirety of the

chipset elements and hot-running board bits like

VRMs. The radical design makes it easier than

ever for overclockers to get the absolute

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