THE CVN Z790D5 GAMING FROZEN V20

Colorful has used a white, gray and copper color combination for their CVN Z790D5 Gaming Frozen V20.

The heatsink used to cool the 18-phase digital VRM may not be the largest of the most robust I’ve seen but it's also larger than what's used with other affordable models.

Two motherboard power connectors are located just over the VRM heatsink.

You can equip the CVN Z790D5 Gaming Frozen V20 with a total of 192GB or DDR5 RAM (4x48GB) with speeds of up to 7000MHz and above.

At the center of the motherboard we find the 2 full sized PCIe slots (5.0/4.0), 2 PCIe 3.0 x1 slots and three heatspreaders.

Removing the heatspreaders reveals the 4 M.2 PCIe 4.0 ports.

Colorful uses the Realtek ALC1220 7.1 onboard sound card which is located on the lower left of the motherboard.

At the rear I/O we find the DP v1.2 port, HDMI v2.0 port, 4 USB 3.2 Gen1 ports, USB 3.2 Gen2 port, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port, 2.5GbE RJ45 port, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 2 Antenna ports and the Realtek ALC1220 High Definition Audio onboard audio ports.

There's no backplate at the rear of the PCB and that's always expected from mid-range motherboard models (at least 3 ARGB LEDs are visible on the lower left side).

As with other Z790 based motherboard reviews I’ll be using the Intel Core i9-13900k with the T-Force RGB 32GB 6400MHz CL40 DDR5 kit by Team Group and the Neo Forza NFP425 SSD.