THE BEST FOR THE PRO

The Z590 AORUS ELITE AX comes with upgraded power solution, incredible cooling design, all PCIe 4.0 design and outstanding connectivity to elevate your gaming experience to the next level.

FEATURES

• Supports 11th and 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Series Processors
• Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 4 DIMMs
• Direct 12+1 Phases Digital VRM Solution with 60A DrMOS
• Shielded Memory Routing for Better Memory Overclocking
• Fully Covered Thermal Design with High Coverage MOSFET Heatsinks
• Onboard Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax 2T2R & BT5 with AORUS Antenna
• AMP-UP Audio with ALC1220 and WIMA Audio Capacitors
• Fast 2.5GbE LAN with Bandwidth Management
• Triple Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe 4.0*/3.0 x4 M.2 with Thermal Guards
• SuperSpeed USB 3.2 Gen2×2 TYPE-C® delivers up to 20Gb/s transfer spe­eds
• Pre-installed IO Shield for Easy and Quick Installation
• RGB FUSION 2.0 with Multi-Zone Addressable LED Light Show Design, Support Addressable LED & RGB LED Strips
• Smart Fan 6 Features Multiple Temperature Sensors , Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP
• Q-Flash Plus Update BIOS without Installing the CPU, Memory and Graphics Card

SPECIFICATIONS

• CPU:
  • LGA1200 package:
    • 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processors / Intel® Core™ i7 processors / Intel® Core™ i5 processors
    • 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processors / Intel® Core™ i7 processors / Intel® Core™ i5 processors / Intel® Core™ i3 processors/ Intel® Pentium® processors / Intel® Celeron® processors
      • Limited to processors with 4 MB Intel® Smart Cache, Intel® Celeron® G5×x5 family.
    • L3 cache varies with CPU
• Chipset: Intel® Z590 Express Chipset
• Memory:
  • 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i9/i7/i5 processors: Support for DDR4 5400 (O.C)/ DDR4 5333(O.C.)/ DDR4 5133(O.C­.)/DDR4 5000(O­.C.)/4933(O.C­.)/4800(O.C.)/ 4700(O.C.)/ 4600(O.C.)/ 4500(O.C.)/ 4400(O.C.)/ 4300(O.C.)/4266(O­.C.) / 4133(O.C.) / 4000(O.C.) / 3866(O.C.) / 3800(O.C.) / 3733(O.C.) / 3666(O.C.) / 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200 / 3000 / 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 MHz memory modules
  • 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i9/i7 processors: Support for DDR4 2933/266­6/2400/2133 MHz memory modules
  • 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i5/i3 /Pentium®/Celeron® processors: Support for DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz memory modules
  • 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 128 GB (32 GB single DIMM capacity) of system memory
  • Dual channel memory architecture
  • Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
  • Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules
  • Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
• Onboard Graphics:
  • Integrated Graphics Processor-Intel® HD Graphics support: 1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096×2304@60 Hz
    • Support for DisplayPort 1.2 version and HDCP 2.3.
    • Graphics specifications may vary depending on CPU support.
• Audio:
  • Realtek® ALC1220-VB codec
    • The back panel line out jack supports DSD audio
  • High Definition Audio
  • 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
  • Support for S/PDIF Out
• LAN: Realtek® 2.5GbE LAN chip (2.5 Gbit/1 Gbit/100 Mbit)
• Wireless Communication module:
  • Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201:
    • WIFI a, b, g, n, ac with wave 2 features, ax, supporting 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band
    • BLUETOOTH 5.1
    • Support for 11ax 160MHz wireless standard and up to 2.4 Gbps data rate
      • Actual data rate may vary depending on environment and equipment.
• Expansion Slots:
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
    • For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
    • The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 4.0 standard.
      • Supported by 11th Generation processors only.
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
  • 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
    • PCIEX4 and PCIEX1 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.
• Multi-Graphics Technology: Support for AMD Quad-GPU CrossFire™ and 2-Way AMD CrossFire™ technologies
• Storage Interface:
  • CPU:
    • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_CPU)
      • Supported by 11th Generation processors only.
  • Chipset:
    • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2B_SB)
    • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2P_SB)
    • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
  • Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
• USB:
  • Chipset:
    • 1 x USB Type-C® port on the back panel, with USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 support
    • 1 x USB Type-C® port with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support, available through the internal USB header
    • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports (red) on the back panel
    • 5 x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports (3 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
  • Chipset+2 USB 2.0 Hub: 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
• Internal I/O Connectors:
  • 1 × 24-pin ATX main power connector
  • 1 × 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 × 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 x CPU fan header
  • 1 x water cooling CPU fan header
  • 3 x system fan headers
  • 1 x system fan/water cooling pump header
  • 2 x addressable LED strip headers
  • 2 x RGB LED strip headers
  • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • 3 x M.2 Socket 3 connectors
  • 1 x front panel header
  • 1 x front panel audio header
  • 1 x USB Type-C® header, with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1 header
  • 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
  • 2 x Thunderbolt™ add-in card connectors
  • 1 x Trusted Platform Module header (For the GC-TPM2.0 SPI / GC-TPM2.0 SPI 2.0 module only)
  • 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
  • 1 x Q-Flash Plus button
• Back Panel Connectors:
  • 1 x USB Type-C® port, with USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 support
  • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports (red)
  • 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
  • 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  • 2 x SMA antenna connectors (2T2R)
  • 1 x DisplayPort
  • 1 x RJ-45 port
  • 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
  • 5 x audio jacks
• I/O Controller: iTE® I/O Controller Chip
• H/W Monitoring:
  • Voltage detection
  • Temperature detection
  • Fan speed detection
  • Water cooling flow rate detection
  • Fan fail warning
  • Fan speed control
• BIOS:
  • 1 × 256 Mbit flash
  • Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS
  • PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0
• Unique Features:
  • Support for APP Center
    • @BIOS
    • EasyTune
    • Fast Boot
    • Game Boost
    • ON/OFF Charge
    • RGB Fusion
    • Smart Backup
    • System Information Viewer
  • Support for Q-Flash Plus
  • Support for Q-Flash
  • Support for Xpress Install
• Bundled Software:
  • Norton® Internet Security (OEM version)
  • Realtek® 8125 Gaming LAN Bandwidth Control Utility
• Operating System: Support for Windows 10 64-bit
• Form Factor: ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm