ASRock Phantom Gaming Z790 NOVA WiFi Motherboard Features Six M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Slots

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ASRock has announced its new lineup of Phantom Gaming Z790 motherboards for 14th Gen Intel Core processors, revealing that the Phantom Gaming Z790 NOVA WiFi, its latest flagship motherboard aimed at Intel users, features a "whopping" six M.2 PCI-Express NVMe SSD sockets (1X Blazing Gen-5, 5X Hyper Gen-4). This seems to be a greater number of slots than what some of the other major players are advertising, with ASUS and GIGABYTE having both announced their own flagship Z790 motherboards today that appear to top out at five slots. Complementing the Phantom Gaming Z790 NOVA WiFi is the Phantom Gaming Z790 Riptide WiFi and Phantom Gaming Z790 Lightning WiFi, which feature 5x and 3x M.2 2280 slots, respectively.

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[LazyGamer]

Looks like they're hanging the sixth NVMe slot off of the chipset?

Either way, they're continuing the trend of the NVMe 5 slot usage cutting the graphics x16 slot down to x8, which is really an embarrassing move for the platform as a whole.

 

[Brent_Justice]

There's literally no gaming performance difference at x8 4.0 vs x16 4.0

 

[Dan_D]

Looks like they're hanging the sixth NVMe slot off of the chipset?

They are going to have to connect most of them to the chipset.

Either way, they're continuing the trend of the NVMe 5 slot usage cutting the graphics x16 slot down to x8, which is really an embarrassing move for the platform as a whole.

Not really. As Brent said, there really isn't a performance difference between 8x and 16x lanes for gaming. It just sounds bad from a marketing perspective.