MSI MPG Intel Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI Open Box ATX Motherboard

Game In Style

The MPG series brings out the best in gamers by allowing full expression in colour with advanced RGB lighting control and synchronisation. Experiment on another level of personalisation with a front LED strip that provides convenient in-game and real time notifications. With the MPG series, transform your equipment into the centre of attention and top leaderboards in style.

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.

Thermal Solution for More Cores and Higher Performance

With more cores’ processors, thermal and power design is more important to make sure the temperature keeps lower. MSI extended PWM heatsink and enhanced circuit design ensures even high-end CPU to run in full speed with MSI motherboards.

M.2 Shield Frozr

World’s fastest SSDs can start to lower performance when getting hot. Part of the motherboards heatsink design, M.2 SHIELD FROZR is the next generation M.2 thermal solution to avoid this by offering the best thermal protection to make sure that SSD maintains maximum performance.

Fully Controllable in BIOS and Software

MSI motherboards let you manage speeds and temperatures for all your system and CPU fans. Total Fan Control allows you check your primary system characteristics in a simplified graphical interface. You can also set up to 4 temperature targets for CPU and motherboard, which will adjust the fan speeds automatically.

Optimised for Water Cooling

Designed to support the most popular All-In-One & customised water cooling solutions on the market. A dedicated water pump PIN header supports up to 2 amp, giving you full control of the water pump speed. A clearly marked ‘keep-out-zone’ allows for easy and safe installation and a perfect fit.

12 + 1 +1 Duet Rail Power System

Unleash and sustain maximum performance with an aggressive VRM design built with a total of 12 digital CPU power phases. Combining 8 + 4-pin power connectors and exclusive Core Boost technology, MPG series motherboard is ready to sustain heavy gaming loadings.

Core Boost

Core Boost technology combines MSI’s premium layout and digital power design which allows for faster and undistorted current delivery to the CPU at pin-point precision. This creates the perfect conditions for multi-core CPU while doing

1-Second Overclocking!

MSI Game Boost enables one-second overclocking, giving you the performance boost you need to get more FPS.

More for Performance

• Load-Line Calibration: What you set, is what you get. LLC makes sure your CPU voltage remains 100% stable under any load. This greatly improves stability when demanding more CPU performance.
• Overvoltage Protection: Prevents potential short-circuit damage to the CPU and other critical components.
• Digital Power Design: A fully digital power design allows for faster and undistorted current delivery to the CPU at pin-point precision. Creating the perfect conditions for CPU overclocking.
• Double Power Connectors: 8+4 pin connectors deliver adequate power even for an overclocked multi-core CPU.

Pre-Installed IO Shielding

Featuring the pre-installed IO shielding, makes your installation process easier and safer. The patent-pending design protect your IO ports and also prevent electrostatic discharge damage, makes your motherboard a strong gaming foundation.

Easy To Arrange Your Cales

Not clever at cable arrangement? MSI Atypical PCB design not only the identity of stylish but also makes SATA and USB cable routing easier. Arranges cable neatly even you are not familiar with system build.

Enhanced Performance

High performance MSI motherboards are loaded with advanced features and the latest technology to overwhelm any challenge at hand no matter whether you’re a gamer, prosumer, or PC enthusiast.

Extreme Stability & Compatibility Testing with DDR4 Boost

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 optimise 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.

Fast and Future-Ready Storage

MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI motherboards support all the latest storage standards, which allows users to connect any ultra-fast storage device. Higher efficiency makes your work easier.

Boost Your HDD To Perform Like An SSD with Optane™

PC Enthusiasts can now enjoy the performance of an SSD on their HDD by coupling it with the new Intel® Optane™ Memory device. Intel® Optane™ technology provides an unparalleled combination of high throughput, low latency, high quality of service, and high endurance.

Easy RAID Setup with M.2 Genie

Looking to go all out in terms of raw data speed and put multiple SSDs in RAID 0? Setting this up can prove to be quite the challenge. That’s why we created M.2 Genie, a brilliant feature to make setting up RAID 0 for M.2 and U.2 much easier and less time consuming.

Dragon Centre

MSI brand new Dragon Centre unifies a suite of MSI software utilities into a single centralised application. Take control of advanced motherboards features and unleash endless possibilities.

Click BIOS 5

Get more from a loaded BIOS designed for ease of use. Fine-tune the motherboard for gaming performance, efficiency, or overclocking world records!

MSI App Player

Developed under an exclusive partnership with BlueStacks, the MSI APP Player brings seamless gaming experience between mobile games and PC platform, and leverages customised features as specific keyboard lighting and better graphics with multi-task works.

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.

High-Bandwidth And Low-Latency Network

2.5Gbps LAN provides incredible data transfer speed faster than general Gigabit LAN. This is a premium solution for demanding users.

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.

Optimise Online Gaming Traffic for Lower Latency!

MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritises the latency-sensitive applications for online games, giving you the best online gaming experience with low latency.

MSI LAN Manager:
• Automatically prioritises games above other applications.
• Allows you to change applications' traffic priority.
• Allows you to customise bandwidth for each application.

Audio Boost

• Dedicated High Definition Audio Processor: Make sure you enjoy the purest sound quality in both stereo and surround sound.
• High Quality Audio Capacitors: A high fidelity sound experience with exceptional acoustics and realism for studio level headphones is ensured.
• High Quality Audio Jacks with S/PDIF: Keep your sound perfect by transmit your audio with pure digital signal.

Isolated Audio Signal

• Isolated Audio Design: Like a dedicated sound card, audio components and circuits have been laid on a reserved motherboard section and electrically isolated.
• Separated Audio Layers for Clean Left & Right Channels: Using separated layers in the PCB ensures equally pristine sound quality for both left and right audio channels.

De-Pop Protection

Audio Boost protects your ears by eliminating those annoying loud popping sounds when you plug/unplug devices or turn your PC on/off.