Review ASRock Z790 Nova Motherboard Review: Stylish New SKU With Six M.2 Sockets

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The Z790 Nova is a new mid-range SKU that comes with six M.2 sockets, a unique black-on-blue/purple design, and all of the features you’d want, including Wi-Fi 7, a quality audio solution, robust power delivery and good all-around performance for under $300.

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[slash3]

Good review. It's certainly one of the more full featured boards, and isn't priced through the stratosphere, either.

Remember, for 14th-gen CPUs, the maximum stock spec for memory is DDR5-6000 versus DDR5-5600 for 13th-gen.

This isn't the case. Both 13th and 14th-gen -K series CPUs are officially rated (footnote 10) at the same 5600MT for 1DPC/1Rx8 & 1Rx16 operation.

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"DDR5-5600 MT/s 1DPC UDIMM 1Rx8, 1Rx16 (lead supplier) and DDR5-5200 1Rx8, 1Rx16, 2Rx8 are POR on all Intel® Core™ i9 desktop processor SKUs, all Intel® Core™ i7 desktop processor SKUs, and select Intel® Core™ i5 desktop processor SKUs (14th gen)."

 

[bart simpson]

Don't you wish they made a similar board for AMD CPUs?

 

[FoxTread3]

This a very detailed and informative article. I'm an EVGA fan boy and have only purchased one motherboard from another company and had to replace that one within a year. I have found having to slide plugs in from the sides of the MBs frustrating in the past. It's nice to see headers and sockets that can connected with a straight down push, rather than having to slide a plug in sideways. I didn't see it mentioned here, but one feature I would like to see all MB manufacturers adopt. Which is a "quick release" button for GPUs. That was the one feature that I found very useful on an otherwise disappointing ASUS MB I purchased, and had to discard.

 

[ocer9999]

The Z790 Nova did pretty good on the latest round up on HWunboxed as well. For this price is a very good option if you want to build a Intel rig.

 

[Thorsson64]

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like my choice of it for my new build was the right one.