Intel Z390 Disappointments

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Intel Z390 Disappointments:

HDMI 1.4 - should be 2.0 since HDMI 1.4 came out in 2009, HDMI 2.0 came out in 2013
DDR4 2666 - should be 3200
BIOS needs lots of work
Utility CD instead of a USB thumb drive
9700k only 8-thread instead of 16

Why is it so expensive then?


 
JoseJones said:
Intel Z390 Disappointments:

HDMI 1.4 - should be 2.0 since HDMI 1.4 came out in 2009, HDMI 2.0 came out in 2013
DDR4 2666 - should be 3200
BIOS needs lots of work
Utility CD instead of a USB thumb drive
9700k only 8-thread instead of 16

Why is it so expensive then?


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So why is this an "INTEL" Disappointment and not a Gigabyte "x" motherboard disappointment at least when it comes to the Bios and RAM speed for example?????
 
This really has less to do with Intel's z390 platform and more to do with Gigabytes garbage bios. That's actually the reason I am tearing my Gigabyte x299 mobo system down and relacing it with a EVGA x299 Dark this week.
 
DDR4 and HDMI 2.0 support are dependent on the CPU, not the chipset. Seeing as the primary purpose of CFL-refresh is to add two more cores, it is unsurprising that HDMI 2.0 hasn't been added to the display block. Most boards have supported DDR4-3000+ since Z270, its just not officially certified by Intel (I don't think DDR4-3200 is even in the JEDEC spec).

The primary purpose of Z390 is to finally add 10Gbps USB support natively to the chipset, which should pave the way for better external storage (the actual transfer speed of 5Gbps USB 3.0 is something like 350MB/sec, which bottlenecks even SATA to USB bridge devices).
 
bwang said:
DDR4 and HDMI 2.0 support are dependent on the CPU, not the chipset. Seeing as the primary purpose of CFL-refresh is to add two more cores, it is unsurprising that HDMI 2.0 hasn't been added to the display block. Most boards have supported DDR4-3000+ since Z270, its just not officially certified by Intel (I don't think DDR4-3200 is even in the JEDEC spec).

The primary purpose of Z390 is to finally add 10Gbps USB support natively to the chipset, which should pave the way for better external storage (the actual transfer speed of 5Gbps USB 3.0 is something like 350MB/sec, which bottlenecks even SATA to USB bridge devices).
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I believe JEDEC only certified up to DDR4-2666.
 
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