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)

I love the way this mobo looks in my white build! Havent had any issues after heavy use. The only downside I could dig up was the fact that it doesnt have onboard wifi or Bluetooth. You have to buy that separately. But that aside its amazing.

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.

In general, its a good mobo.

ME GUSTA POR TODA LA NUEVA TECNOLOGÍA QUE TRAE, PERO A LA VES NO ME GUSTA PORQUE SI ES DE NUEVA GENERACIÓN QUE APENAS SALIO EN OCTUBRE 2021, NO PUEDAS ELEGIR EN ESTA TARJETA USAR MEMORIAS RAM DDR 4 O DDR 5, NECESARIAMENTE TIENE QUE SER DDR 5. ENTONCES; PARA QUÉ EL PROCESADOR INTEL ALDER LAKE SOPORTA DDR4 Y DDR5 SI NECESARIAMENTE DEBES USAR UNA U OTRA PLACA NO LA MISMA, DEBERÍAN DE HABER DEJADO LA RANURA DE LAS NUEVAS MEMORIAS EN EL MISMO LUGAR QUE LAS DDR4 Y HACERLAS COMPATIBLES CON AMBAS GENERACIONES, OTRA COSA, TAMPOCO PUEDES USAR SSD M.2 GEN. 5 EN LOS SOCKET DE LA MOTHER PORQUE NO HAY AUN NINGUNA PARA ESE FIN, NECESARIAMENTE TENDRÉ QUE COMPRAR UN ADAPTADOR PARA PCI, Y SI USO UNA TARJETA DE GRÁFICOS, ENTONCES DONDE CONECTO ESE ADAPTADOR PARA SSD M.2 O DONDE CONECTO LA GPU?

La MB esta excelente, la uso desde agosto del año 2022 y va de maravilla el único detalle es que me venia con un pin muy doblado, se nota que se golpeo durante su empaque en la fabrica, afortunadamente no uso ese pin y lo pude reparar con mucho cuidado. Sin embargo creo que debería haber mas control con esas cosas.

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

There is not a bios flashback feature on this board. You need the current bios version before you can use 13th gen i9 13900k. The only way to get the bios update is by installing a 12th gen cpu and updating the bios then install the 13th gen cpu. Z790 ddr5 boards are hard to find and cost around 630 dollars. If your stuck at a dram yellow error light like me, buy a cheap cpu for 100 bucks and update bios.

This motherboard will not post with the 13th gen intel CPU. The only option is to use a 12th gen CPU to upgrade the bios so that it will function. Itll cost me another $100 to get this done locally.

I initially had issues with overclocking. I discovered if I enabled Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) to overclock the memory, I also have to enable serial presence detect (SPD). Prior to that discovery the MOBOmemory was unstable and the memory failed the Passmark Memtest After that fix, the system remained unstable, and I thought it was due to CPU overclocking however,the system still crashed with all overclocking turned off. Diags on the CPU say it was fine. It could have been a driver issues but event viewer points toward hardware as such I requested a replacement board. The replacement MOBO did not fix the issue. The issue was that I could not disable sleep mode, as the power setting keeps resetting, and the computer reboots rather than to go to sleep. Asus tech support was not much help, but Microsoft tech support zeroed in on the issue immediately. I had to disable CPU C-states on the MOBO. Im keeping the MOBO as I dont think the hardware is bad, but it definitely needs a new BIOS update on top of the one that just came out on March 10, 2022

Seems to be a great product so far however my only complaint so far is I cant turn off the RGB lights on the motherboard even when the PC is off. I tried selecting the option in the bios but it doesnt work.