It's like kicking in an open door, however, it never was confirmed. Z490 motherboards are designed for the announce Comet Lake-S processors, but of course will also support the following proc series,... Gigabyte Aorus confirms, Rocket Lake will also work on Z490 motherboards
Why did we need confirmation? Intel is doing what it has done for as long as I can remember,2 gens of CPU's with a board,even if the new board doesn't add anything they still force you if you are an Intel follower.
How am i supposed to use the extra 4 pci express lanes that rocket lake will offer on a z490? Today we have still 16 from comet lake, right?
from the video with Ian from Andantech and level1techs youtube I think they explain some motherboards will have a dedicated M.2 nvme slot 4.0 slot to use the added pcie lanes or something like that I read nothing about comet lake I use 10+ USBs 6x SSds 3x Nvme 10Gbe network and need free pcie bandwith for other cards so 16 cpu lanes is not even half of what I use
Ok but today, on the z490 to what is wired? i m reading about z490 compatibility with future rocket lake.
Z boards now offer plenty extra since Z3xx, 40 total with CPU's 16. What you are going to miss is PCIE 4.0 edit: so basicaly Z4xx should be entirely skipped If you care about pcie 4.0 , but you probably shouldn't.
