MSI MPG Z790 Carbon Max WiFi Review

USB4

USB4

Inside the box MSI provide us with a USB4 add-in card. With two DisplayPort in, a Type-C 27W port and Type-C 40G 100W port are perfect if you want the very fastest transfer rates.

The design of the Z790 Carbon Max does mean you pretty much have to run it at the bottom, unless you plan to stick to Intel’s integrated graphics.

Because MSI need to cater to those who might stick with integrated graphics in the primary PCI Express slot, the cables are really long. Given that most of us run discrete graphics, these cables are suddenly huge, and will be a faff to get tidied away properly. That’s the price of a supplied, rather than custom, USB 4 solution we guess.