Intel Z890 Motherboard Mega Guide (2025) — ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE & MSI

MSI MEG Z890 GODLIKE — the showcase you build a lab around

GODLIKE is MSI’s “no compromises” E-ATX: hulking fin stacks, heatpipes everywhere, stacked M.2 with Shield Frozr plates that actually shed heat, and lane maps that keep PEG Gen5 x16 and CPU-Gen5 M.2 impartial while still leaving room for add-ins. On many regions you’ll see Thunderbolt 4, 10GbE, Wi-Fi 7, and front USB-C with real power delivery. It’s a board for people who will run a 10G backbone, multiple NVMe tiers, and specialty cards without juggling.

Power delivery is predictably overbuilt; with a top-rear exhaust you can run soft LLC and still avoid Vdroop drama in mixed AVX/light loads. MSI’s BIOS exposes clean AC/DC loadline controls and memory context restore that shortens boot cycles; high-7K XMP at 128 GB is on the table.

Spec snapshot

• E-ATX, flagship VRM with tall fin arrays/heatpipes
• 4× DDR5; stable high-capacity XMP
• PCIe 5.0 x16; CPU-Gen5 + many Gen4 M.2
• TB4, Wi-Fi 7, often 10GbE

Official page: MEG Z890 GODLIKE