Intel product brief spills the beans on the Z390 chipset
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Intel made the details of the long-rumored Z390 chipset official yesterday when it posted a product brief for the platform controller hub on its website. Going by that document, Z390 motherboards will be the first overclocking-friendly models built with the same chipset silicon that underpins today's H370, B360, and H310 boards. That means whenever Z390 boards arrive, they'll support Intel's Integrated Connectivity, or CNVi, wireless modules and native USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports from the chipset alongside eighth-generation Core CPUs. In short, Z390 relieves the odd-man-out Kaby Lake PCH of its duties for Intel's eighth-generation platforms.
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