We are less than two weeks away and the vast majority of manufacturers who will bet on Intel and its Alder Lake CPUs have shown their models or have seen how they have been filtered. There will be more models than seen in this article, but these will all be available initially, while the rest (up to 100) will be incorporated over the months. With which motherboards Z690 for Alder Lake you stay?
What seemed like a desperate launch by Intel is going to turn into the other way around, a well-targeted blow to AMD’s core competing in performance and number of cores, at least in the mainstream lineup. Manufacturers always in the know have seen this and have gone out of their way to outfit the Alder Lake series with a number of motherboards unlike any we have seen in years.
Z690 baseplate models for Alder Lake
The main reason why there are over 100 Z690 chipset end-of-life motherboard models is simple: Manufacturers should offer versions with DDR4 and DDR5 because they are self-exclusive and you can only choose one. .
Therefore, as we saw last week, we are facing something unprecedented due to time and material guesswork, so right off the bat we will have more models available than ever before. That said, we’ll know all of those who leaked:
GIGABYTE
It is one of those who placed the most chips in his bet and we will really have in the first of the architecture of low-end motherboards and with DDR4, to the new AORUS Xtreme and AORUS Master in Z690. The range of cards will be extended with some series already known to all such as PRO, Ultra, Elite, Gaming and UD cards.
The leak told us what the following models will look like:
- Z690 AORUS Xtreme
- Z690 AORUS Master
- Z690 AORUS PRO
- Z690 AORUS Ultra
- Z690 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
- Z690 AERO G
- Z690 GAMING X
- Z690 GAMING X DDR4
- AX Z690 UD
- Z690 UD AX DDR4
- Z690 UD
- Z690 UD DDR4
Highlight the Z690 AERO D with a more sober and straightforward design, because it is more industrial and also in black and white.
ASUS
The offering is very similar to that of GIGABYTE in terms of the number of motherboards, but they carry the presentation as such with more secrecy. Now the spectacular Z690 MAXIMUS GLACIAL Extreme has been revealed, which will surely go for a price tag well over 1000 dollars.
- Z690 MAXIMUS GLACIAL Extreme
- Z690-G Gaming Wi-Fi
- Z690-E Gaming Wi-Fi
- Z690-F Gaming Wi-Fi
- Z690-A Gaming Wi-Fi D4
As we can see, ASUS has made a leap in quality in the low ranges to raise the level, we will see if the price also goes up with or remains to be competitive.
MSI
The dragon manufacturer will focus on several key aspects to try to capture sales in very specific segments, where for example in the low end what it will do will be to implement Wi-Fi in all its production models. , while in the mid and high midrange will boost the phasing system to appeal to users who want to overclock their processors and don’t want to spend a lot of money on higher models:
- Z690 Force Wi-Fi
- PRO Z690-A Wi-Fi
- MAG Z690 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4
- MEG Z690 UNIFY-X
- MEG Z690 UNIFIER
What is really interesting is the leap in quality that all manufacturers have made. Mid-range or low-end plates a few years ago were high-end and now they seem commonplace to us. The bad, surely the price which has also increased, since the first rumors speak of no less than 200 dollars for the input range and 350-400 for the midrange.
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