Detailed specifications and a somewhat blurry slide showing off all the details of MSI’s upcoming high-end MEG Z890 Unify-X motherboard has leaked courtesy of @ChamberTech_ on X/Twitter. The motherboard is likely to appeal to those looking to squeeze every extra bit of performance out of their new Ultra 200K series CPU when they launch next month, as the board could support memory speeds of up to 10,000 MT/s and with only two DIMM slots, it might be able to go even higher with the latest DDR5 CUDIMM’s. The board also sports a 110 Ampere 20+1+1+1 VRM design on an eight layer PCB and it also ships with what MSI calls an OC Tuning Controller, suggesting the board is targeting overclockers.
The board appears to sport a pair of PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for GPUs that presumably operates in dual x8 mode when both slots are in use, as well as a third PCIe 4.0 x16 slot that operates in x4 mode, as well as a single PCIe 4.0 x1 slot. There’s also no less than six M.2 slots, of which two are PCIe 5.0 and our PCIe 4.0, as well as six SATA ports. Where things get a bit interesting is in the network connectivity, as the slide claims that the board features a 5 Gbps Intel Killer Ethernet interface, which is the first we’ve heard of such a thing, as well as an Intel Killer WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 module for wireless connectivity.