So while you need a whole new motherboard platform for Intel's new chips, there's a strong chance it will last for a few CPU generations to come. Especially given Intel's propensity for 14nm silicon… While 10th Generation CPUs may not have shaken the foundations of the tech world, they are the fastest gaming chips around. If your current gaming machine is several years old then upgrading right now will get you a faster system in every way. Faster cores and more of them, faster networking, faster and higher capacity memory, faster storage, and faster USB amongst other things. Upgrading from the 7th, 8th or 9th to 10th generation might not be a big leap, but 2nd to 10th Gen sure is! Intel ® Z490 AORUS Motherboard with 16+1 Phases Digital VRM, Fins-Array II Heatsink, Direct-Touch Heatpipe II ,NanoCarbon Baseplate, Intel ® Thunderbolt 3, ESSential USB DAC, Intel ® WiFi 6 802.11ax, AQUANTIA ® 10GbE LAN, Intel ® 2.5GbE LAN, RGB FUSION 2.0 high-density Memory module*. Optimized daisy-chained routing eliminates the stub effect, pushes the one DIMM per channel

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Premium Thermal Solution: Extended Heatsink DesignandM.2 Shield Frozr are built for high performance system and non-stop works It's been over a decade since it was shut down, but no MMO captures the Halloween spirit quite like City of Heroes Realtek 8118 LAN is a high performance and friendly network chip for gaming players with automatic bandwidth allocation toFans stay whisper-quiet for everyday computing, and deliver optimal airflow when the system is crunching through CPU- or GPU-intensive tasks. This board will also ship with an exceedingly high-end networking configuration that consists of a 10Gbps Marvell LAN controller alongside an Intel i225-V 2.5Gbps NIC and an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 Wi-Fi chip. Asus also equips the board with no fewer than four M.2 slots. Each header can be set to monitor and react to three user-configurable thermal sensors for workload-based cooling, and all settings can be easily managed by Fan Xpert 4 or via the UEFI.​

These three boards will also have two M.2 Key-M slots each, and they all possess an Intel i225-V 2.5Gbps Ethernet controller. These boards don’t come with an integrated wireless chip, but they do have a vacant M.2 Key-E slot for adding Wi-Fi via an M.2 mini-card. Each header can dynamically reference three thermal sensors. Fan Xpert 4 allows you to map the temperature of supported ASUS graphics cards to optimize cooling for GPU- and CPU-intensive tasks. Comprehensive cooling: VRM heatsink, PCH fanless heatsink, M.2 heatsink, hybrid fan headers and Fan Xpert 4 utilityIntel Turbo USB 3.2 Gen 2: Powered by Intel USB 3.2 Gen 2 controller, Turbo USB ensures an uninterrupted connection with more stability and fastest USB speeds

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If you use context clues it was obviously a simple grammar error. Asus is not supporting PCIe 4.0 while the other manufacturers are. An integrated AiO system enables full control of PWM or DC water pumps, making it perfect for custom or self-contained cooling setups. Enhanced Power Design: 12+1+1 Duet Rail Power System, 8+4 pin CPU power connectors, Core Boost, DDR4 Boost