ASUS Prime Z690-A LGA 1700(Intel 12th) ATX Motherboard (16+1 DrMOS,PCIe 5.0,DDR5,4X M.2, Intel 2.5 Gb LAN,USB 3.2 Gen 2 Front Panel Type-C,Thunderbolt™ 4,Aura Sync RGB Lighting)

The motherboard came DOA it would not post after completing all troubleshooting steps through ASUS they said I could RMA it just to state that it would take up too 10 business days plus shipping time. I think that is disgraceful and have switched to an MSI Board.

Product sat on a counter for months as I saved up for other parts and upon opening the box I learned that the cpu pins on this board were damaged rendering it completely useless so I am down 300 dollars. Please open this after its delivered, I cant return this because I waited too long and bought pieces over time.

Works well, loving the white look

Was working until it didnt. One of the channels of ram decided to stop working around 2 months of use

This will be a bit of a lengthy review. I received this board for a new PC build and got to work. The board looks very nice aesthetically. Unfortunately my board was defective, and it took me several hours to realize that the issue was with the motherboard. The issue I was having was that the mouse pointer would be stuck on the screen, rapidly shaking back and forth. These are the steps I took to narrow it down to a defective motherboard:

1st iteration of LGA1700 (12th gen) and no provision to update bios for 13th gen without 12th gen chip. As if intel was going to build the next generation on a different socket (because you know there’s no competition). If you buy old stock to use with a 13th gen chip, good luck. They asked me to send it in to have them flash it. Lol. Galaxy brains. Customer service didn’t even alert me to this issue the first time and I tried in vein to Qflash without a designated USB port, because of course, not possible.

4 slots for m.2 is great since I have stopped using SATA altogether, has all features to overclock but I havent overclocked yet, running my i7 12700k smoothly, has the usb-c type E Thunderbolt for my PC Case Header, has everything I need, had to update bios again for stability but is expected since it is new to market.

Ease of installation, many BIOS/UEFI options. Also, very good choice to buy it second hand from Amazon.

12th gen ready. Oc abilities. What more do you need? Always check ram compatibility when purchasing a motherboard. Picked my ddr5 right off their specific list. Golden.

Unreal. Still shipping with outdated bios in Feb 2023. Ridiculous.