PREMIUM HARDWARE DESIGN With years of experience MSI is no stranger to building high-performance motherboards. Our R&D and engineering teams have reviewed countless designs evaluated a wide selection of high quality components and developed products for reliability even under extreme conditions. ENHANCED PERFORMANCE High performance MSI motherboards are loaded with advanced features and the latest technology to overwhelm any challenge at hand no matter whether youre a gamer prosumer or PC enthusiast. EXTREME STABILITY & COMPATIBILITY TESTING MSI conducts thorough memory testing with the most popular memory brands under extreme conditions to ensure your system runs stable no matter what. Our memory partners include brands like Corsair Crucial Kingston G.Skill and many more to optimize memory modules configurations and even improve overclocking. A HUGE STEP OF DDR PERFORMANCE MSI OC LAB does not merely work hard on extreme overclocking. Compare to Z390 motherboard memory XMP profile MSI does have great improvement on performance and efficiency for Z490. Easy to enable XMP profile with auto power settings to get the best memory speed and stability. EASY OVERCLOCKING WITH XMP PROFILE The XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles) in MSI BIOS are tested and certified by MSI OC LAB. It is easy to enable with auto power settings to get the best memory speed and stability. CONNECTIVITY MSI motherboards are built with a variety of connectors to satisfy gamers. Enhanced audio advanced LAN networking capabilities USB and Mystic Light turn any gaming experience into an immerse one. ONBOARD 10G SUPER LAN MEG Z490 GODLIKE features high-bandwidth and low-latency onboard 10G Super LAN plus 2.5G LAN for power users provides incredible data transfer speed faster than ever before. MSI LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive for your applications giving you the best online experience with low latency. SURFACING WITH THE REAL MU-MIMO TECHNOLOGY The WIFI 6 adopts the latest OFDMA and two-way MU-MIMO technologies and could provide up to 4X network capacity and efficiency in the high signal density environment. Comparing to the WIFI 5 which can only send the data packet to one device at a time on each channel the WIFI 6 could combine the packet separate to several devices and allow signals from the different devices bundled together. This new technology provides all the devices in the same network environment with same and harmonious traffic bandwidth in an efficient way. OPTIMIZE ONLINE GAMING TRAFFIC FOR LOWER LATENCY! MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive applications for online games giving you the best online gaming experience with low latency.