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)

I upgraded my PC from a Z590 Hero to this Z790 Hero, and I couldnt be more pleased... except for the lack of broad DDR 5 memory support. I tried a 4-stick 128GB Kingston DDR 5 Kit that was supposedly supported but found it very unstable. I fell back to a 2-stick 64GB Corsair kit that has been rock-solid.

los perifericos tienden a desconectarse aleatoriamente de forma random, espero que sea un caso aislado y solucionen este problema con alguna actualizacion

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.

-0- issues. Installed easy, great feel to it, definitely a quality build. Two Bios updates already addressing misc issues. You may have heard about the 4 dimms not running XMP, Bios update 0813 addressed this. Running Gskill 4 x 16 @ 6000m smooth as butter as I type.

First motherboard where I cant put the memory on XMP and forget about it. The memory is unstable on XMP. I tried adding the timings in manually and that didnt work either. Great board if youre an advanced over clocker, but Im not. Yes the newest bios is in. I think its 8.13

Awesome. Very posh

The motherboard looks great and has impressive specs. Unfortunately it is very unstable despite tweaking the xmp profile to match various types of ddr5 corsair ram. Was eventually able to get stable enough to boot but then the nvidia 3080ti driver was causing the system to crash as soon as you open a browser window. The gpu began overheating just trying to run windows 10. The latest bios update seemed to smooth out the ram but not resolve it. The gpu then created a bsod error at which point I gave up and returned the motherboard. Currently waiting on refund so I can find a more stable option. I think asus needs to refine their high end mobo before releasing to the wild at this price point. Save your money and buy something else until they get their bios sorted out on this one. Also, numerous bent pins. There is a subreddit forum on the topic of this issue.

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.

Once installed works amazing, but the manual and instructions are not intuitive at all. Was unable to get the computer to post to find out that every power connector needs to be plugged into the motherboard from the psu, however this is not mentioned anywhere in the manual. Once that was figured out, the motherboard has been performing excellent.