MSI Z490-A PRO
MSI Z490-A PRO is a 2020 ATX Z490 LGA1200 board for Intel 10th Gen, high_end tier with DDR4, dual M.2, 2.5G LAN, and a Thunderbolt add-in header.
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Product overview
Released in 2020 alongside Intel’s 10th‑gen Comet Lake platform, MSI’s Z490‑A PRO is an ATX LGA1200 motherboard built on the Z490 chipset. On our scale it’s a high_end Z‑series board: it exists to unlock CPU overclocking and fuller I/O versus B‑series while keeping the PRO line practical. It’s a good fit for ATX builds that need four DDR4 DIMMs (up to 128 GB), dual PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2, six SATA ports, two PCIe x16 plus three x1 slots, plenty of USB including rear USB‑C Gen2, integrated DP/HDMI for iGPU, and 2.5G Ethernet—solid for creators, office rigs, or expansion‑friendly desktops. Notable: a Thunderbolt add‑in‑card header for future connectivity.
- overclocking
- expansion/multi-M.2
- first-time builders
Product highlights
- Supports 10th Generation Intel Core / Pentium Gold / Celeron Processors for LGA 1200 socket
- Supports dual channel DDR4 memory up to 128GB (4800MHz)
- Twin Turbo M.2 with M.2 Shield Frozr delivers transfer speeds of up to 32 GB/s for ultra-fast SSDs
- Core Boost technology combines optimized power circuit layouts, double CPU power connectors, and a digital power design which allows for precise and steady current delivery to the CPU
- On-board 2.5G LAN plus Gigabit LAN with with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Specifications
- Socket
- LGA 1200
- WiFi
- Yes
- Integrated Graphics
- Yes
- Compatible Memory
- DDR4
- USB
- 3.2
- Max Memory Size
- 128 GB
- ECC Support
- No
- Chipset
- Z490
- Max RAM speed
- 4800 MHz
- Form factor
- ATX
- RAM slots
- 4
- M.2 slots
- 2
- PCIe x16
- 2
- Processor Generation
- 10
- Pci E
- 3.0
- M 2
- PCI-E
- Sata Slots
- 6
- Sata Speed
- 6 Gb/s
- Pci E Slots
- 2
- Tdp
- 50 W
- Nvme
- Yes
- Pci E X1
- 3
- Cpu Brand
- Intel
