ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero (WiFi 6E) LGA 1700(Intel®13th&12th Gen) ATX Gaming Motherboard(PCIe 5.0,DDR5,20+1power Stages,2.5Gb LAN, Bluetooth V5.2,2X Thunderbolt 4 Ports,5xM.2, Thunderbolt™ 4/USB4)

Very Good

Bought this as soon as the Raptor Lake CPUs launched, so I put my new i9-13900 in this unit. Its the same shape and board layout as the Z690 model of this board, so the waterblocks and other things for the Z690 Hero seem to fit this board without any fuss. I cant guarantee that for *all* items, but the EKWB waterblock I had, for example, moved over and had no clearance issues at all.

Next-Gen M.2 Support: PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot on the bundled ROG Hyper M.2 card (NOT WITH RTX 4090 INSTALLED) My ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX® 4090 covers the x16 slot that the Hyper M.2 card needs to go in. No PCIe 5.0 M.2 for me. Deal breaker? No, but 700.00 dollars is a lot to pay and lose the ability to use the next gen M.2 5.0 SSD. But REALLY ASUS, you made the motherboard and the video card! Think about it ASUS. We are going to pay top dollar for a motherboard. You have to know we want to use the best video card available. Im not going to send it back, because I plan on using the new 990 PRO PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ SSD 2TB. Not going to get into the numbers, but this drive should be darn close to the 5.0 speeds for now. And if you are considering a riser cable. No luck there. Not only do the 5.0 cables not exist, from my research the 3.0 cables dont work half the time. Also, you cannot use the Hyper card in the 1rst x16 slot. It needs to go in the 2nd x16 slot for PCIe 5.0. to work. On the good side there are boards under 300.00 dollars you can buy that do not have this issue.

I have stuck with ASUS for every build. I did because of their reliability - until now. I have a lot of experience building systems. I tried every trick I could think of to get this unit working: updated the BIOS and all the other items, like chipset updates, tried different variations of known good hardware, switched out the DRAM modules in different configurations, et. al., but nothing worked. All the hardware met ASUS compatibilty lists.

This POS motherboard destroyed 2 sets of ram I purchased and another set of ram i borrowed from a friend. there was some serious voltage instability. i was able to get it running after limiting my ddr5 ram to 4800 from the 5600 i borrowed. but just today it became unstable again. however it will still pass memtest86 now so it is 100% a MB issue. ASUS has gaslit me over the past month and i will never purchase another MB from them again. its just not worth the trouble.

This isnt the extreme, but its still an amazing board.

The Intel NIC keeps losing its 2500 speed setting, usually on waking up from sleep.

I just built a new rig with an intel raptor with Corsair Dominator 128 gigs of 5600, an Evga supernova 1600 watts PSU, and it blue-screen-of-death when I overclock to xmp1/2. All drivers are up to date and firmware. I remember why I left Asus for Gigabytes.

*Submitted Based on Warranty Extension for Review Feedback, Score Not Based On Incentive

Excelente producto, hasta ahorita funciona perfectamente.