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)

Supports high speed DDR5, just make sure you update the bios or you might run into issues with

I got the i9-13900 and the fast DDR5. I seriously considered getting the Z790, assuming it was much better. But, I read up on the performance, they are identical. The real difference is the Z690 needed a BIOS update to work with this new i9, otherwise the Z790 has one more USB port, maybe?

so i just did a custom build back when the 12th gen items released. and Ive pushed the limits and tested multiple products over the last month. Basically running the I9-12900K, Corsair 5200 DDR5 RAM, 6900XT GPU, 2 TB SSD Ect.

Plenty of M.2 slots, Pcie, Pump & Fan connections. Good hardware to support High end cpus. I benchmarked my computer with this Mobo and it ranked 99% in the world against other computers.

Review is for ASUS Prime Z690-A

Yes its a first gen product and ddr5 is the new hotness so I should have expected it, but this board is a total disaster and save yourself a week of stress and just dont buy it unless your ram is explicitly on the QVL.

Why in the world would you put a sticker over the serial number so now when I need to go register the product I have to scrape sticker off of the number.

If your looking for something that doesnt send signals why you are using Lan this is where its at.

Ive been building my own computers for 15 years and this has been my worst purchase.

It has just about all the bells and whistles that the high end boards have except maybe a few NVME drives or in some cases maybe a few extra PCI-E 5.0 lanes. No issues so far, its basically on the bleeding edge of current tech for the masses with nvme 4.0, DDR5 and the latest high end Intel CPUs. Lots of customization in the bios, you have a plethora of choices to choose from if your in to tweaking and OCing.