The motherboard ROG Maximus XIII Apex Asus is approaching stores built under the new chipset Z590 and socket LGA 1200.
Asus relies on its new ROG Maximus XIII Apex motherboard to be capable of dominating the new 11th Gen Intel Core Rocket Lake-S processors, which are going to raise the performance per sip of Comet Lake and also its power requirements.
Asus has listed the ROG Maximus XIII Apex on its website, which implies that the successor to the ROG Maximus XII Apex is down and very close to launching.
The motherboard with the Z590 chipset and the LGA 1200 socket makes use of an 18 phase power subsystem and each power stage can handle up to 90 amps. Asus seems to have done a redesign of the motherboard power zone and removed the phase doublers. In addition, they use 10K black metallic Japanese capacitors, to withstand a few degrees of overclocking beyond the reach of any PC user.
As if this were not enough, the cooling of the VRM area of the motherboard is reinforced with aluminum covers so that they are passively cooled.
The ROG Maximus XIII Apex supports up to 64GB of memory and clock speeds higher than DDR4-5000. The storage capacities are enviable. We have eight SATA III ports and up to four M.2 slots. The expansion slots consist of two PCIe x16 slots and one PCIe x8 slot.
In terms of connectivity, it offers a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity with support for bands up to 6GHz
We do not know what the price will be, but the variant with Z490 sold for $ 356.99. We will keep you informed.
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