Customized white motherboard 2,000 yuan cost-effective motherboard
With the launch of Intel's 14th Gen Desktop Core, many gamers are looking to update the platform. The Z790 chipset series products are sought after by gamers with updated processor optimization, high-frequency memory support, and rich scalability. The product we experienced today is the igame Z790D5 Flow V20 motherboard from Colorful (hereinafter referred to as the Z790D5 Flow), with a pure white custom appearance and a price of less than 2,000 yuan, which is very suitable for matching with the 14th generation Core processor, and it is very cost-effective.
The Z790D5 Flow uses a standard ATX form factor, uses an LGA1700 socket, and is compatible with Intel 12 13 14th Gen Core desktop processors, so new and old gamers have a wealth of choices.
Z790D5 Flow adopts the exclusive customized white motherboard of the igame series as a whole, the background color of the motherboard, the back, the heat dissipation armor, the SSD vest and other parts are unified in color, and even the included WiFi antenna is designed in white, the overall creation is very good, and the appearance is very good.
For power supply, the Z790D5 Flow adopts 18+1+1 phase high-specification enhanced digital power supply, polymer tantalum capacitors are on par with high-end motherboards, and the CPU power supply adopts 90A DRMOS, which can easily cope with the daily use of 14th Gen Core processors and the need for overclocking power supply.
The surface of the motherboard is made of a wide range of flowing firefly alloy heat dissipation armor, and the futuristic composite wavy line design also fits the "flow" in the name, and has a flowing beauty. Dual-partition increases power supply and heat dissipation, built-in high thermal conductivity vacuum heat pipe connection, and multiple CNC cutting increases heat exchange area and improves heat dissipation efficiency.
The motherboard is available in 4 m2 SSD interfaces, both PCIe 40x4 lanes, it's a bit of a pity that PCIe Gen5 isn't supported. Full coverage of m2. The heat dissipation armor adopts an integrated design, which effectively reduces m2 SSD operating temperature.
The motherboard offers PCIe 5 covered with metal armor reinforcement0 16 alloy reinforced graphics card slot, with high-performance discrete graphics card will not have bandwidth bottlenecks. The second PCIe 4The 0 channel is also specially designed with a dust cover, which is more beautiful and does not have to worry about dust accumulation.
In terms of memory, the Z790D5 Flow provides four DDR5 memory slots, and a single memory can support up to 48GB capacity. The enhanced SMT process is more resistant to interference, and the high-V voltage enhancement and thickened gold-plated contacts bring strong overclocking potential, and can nominally support 7800MHz DDR5 memory.
The Z790D5 Flow also performs well in terms of scalability, with the RTL8125BG 25G wired LAN card with AX211 Wi-Fi 6E wireless LAN card and Bluetooth 53。In terms of audio, the realtek ALC1220 high-fidelity decoder chip is installed on board, supplemented by professional audio capacitors, which can provide better sound quality performance.
In terms of interfaces, dp 12、hdmi 2.0, USB Type-A, RJ45, etc., it is worth mentioning the front and rear dual USB 32 Type-C ports are all 20Gbps, which is still relatively rare, and the front C port also supports 30W PD fast charging.
The Z790D5 Flow can also be managed through the iGame Center application, which realizes functions such as driver detection, global RGB lighting management, hardware debugging and optimization, etc., and the game frame rate and OSD status monitoring are very convenient, and the software design is beautiful and easy to use.
The 14th Gen Core i7 is on full fire, and the memory is easily overclocked to 8000MHz
Next, let's take a look at the Z790D5 Flow's actual performance. Since the new Intel 14th Gen Core processor improves the performance of DDR5 memory high frequencies, and the nominal specification of Z790D5 Flow memory can reach DDR5 7800 MT s, so we chose the i7-14700K processor with Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 8000MT S memory for testing.
In the BIOS of the Z790D5 Flow, you can see that the memory has two built-in XMP 30 profiles, 7800 MHz and 8000 MHz, respectively. We directly choose the 8000 MHz (CL38-48-48-128) gear, and it is lit up successfully, Z790D5 Flow is very perfect for the compatibility of this memory, the official nominal 7800MHz is even a bit conservative, and novice players and novice players can also use XMP 30 easy memory overclocking.
With XMP-8000MHz enabled, the read speed reached 121 in the AIDA64 Cache &Memory Benchmark test31 GB s, write speed 10509 GB s, copy speed 10732 GB s with a memory latency of only 576ns, compared to XMP off, when the memory is running at 4800MHz, the performance is greatly improved, which helps us get faster response times in intensive tasks and large games.
Next, let's use the AIDA64's FPU copy test to see the power supply strength of this motherboard. In the CPU single bake, the i7-14700K's package power consumption reaches a maximum of more than 280W, and the performance is quite sufficient, even if it is overclocked, it can ensure stability.
In terms of specific performance, judging from the benchmark results of the i7-14700K, the score in the CPU-Z has even reached 87% of the performance of the previous generation i9-13900K, catching up with the flagship.
In the commonly used Cinebench R23 version, the i7-14700K has a single-core score of 2155 and a multi-core performance of 34305 points, which is more than 10% higher than that of the i7-13700K.
In the cross-platform Crossmark productivity test, the overall score is as high as 2572 points, and it performs well in the three sections of productivity, creativity, and responsiveness, which is also very effective in helping creative designers to work.
The iGame GeForce RTX 4080 Ultra W OC graphics card used in this test also performed well in 3DMark's graphics performance tests of Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, Fire Strike Ultra, TimesSpy, TimeSpy Extreme, and other scenarios, with a high score of 48875 in the Fire Strike scenario.
In several representative games such as "f1@23", "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", "Gears of War 5", "Far Cry 5", etc., the average game frame rate is measured to be above 120fps under the setting of 4K resolution, highest image quality, ray tracing and DLSS enabled, and the game experience is very extreme.
On the whole, as an ATX form factor Z790 chipset motherboard, the iGame Z790D5 Flow V20 is quite comprehensive in terms of its high-value white theme appearance, as well as the excellent power supply ability that can meet the needs of 14th generation Core high-end processors, as well as the good support of ultra-high-frequency DDR5 memory, plus rich external expansion. Coupled with the current 1949 yuan (e-commerce reference price)**, the cost performance is very good, if you want to install in the near future, it is a choice worth considering.