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)

This mother board is physically compatible with 13th gen CPU’s but doesn’t have a bios flashback feature so you have to have access to a 12th gen cpu to update the bios to work with a 13th gen cpu.

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.

EDIT: With the bios update, it now supports 5600 mhz DDR5

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.

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?

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.

Absolutely terrible mobo don’t buy

Its a budget board packed with enough features for the average gamer. Vrms stay pretty close to 50 degrees, saw them at 53 a time or two but nothing crazy. Plenty capable of driving rgb, currently running 4 cooler master rgb 120mm fans and a cooler master aio rgb on it no problem. Rtx 3070oc, with triple fans kind of sagged a little but nothing a support bracket didnt fix. There were two headers with broke orientation tabs (for fans) but not entirely sure if that was a manufacturer defect or slightly careless handling. Armour crate is easy enough to use and helps with fan settings and rgb, can relay information about the system. I think if your looking to get to ddr5 this isnt a terrible board to consider.

Ive had this board running for several months now and its solid, typical of my experience with Asus products. Smooth installation and configuration, no problems to date at all.

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?