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)

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

Have had this board in my rig for a few months now running a 13900k with 128GB of DDR5 Dominator 5600 RAM and a 3080Ti (I know, graphics cards arent cheap nor in ample supply). For the first few weeks I didnt have many issues only for the occasional BSOD. Updated the BIOS the first time and then my system became even more unstable. Updated to the latest 813 BIOS and I wasnt able to go 5 minutes without a BSOD. I first thought maybe it was windows 11 not liking something so I downgraded to win 10 and even had added an extra NVME drive to install Ubuntu. Both crashed as well. So I went searching the web and found a forum that hinted at the issue of this board not being stable with 128 GB of RAM. So I tested it and took the a1 and b1 sticks off the board. Not a single crash since. I hope they fix this soon.

Incredible motherboard to say the least. This thing packs a lot of power. But do note that of you use all 4 slots and enable xmp it will not work. Either the system freezes or halts before loading. You can read more on reddit but any ddr5 that you get that says xmp 3.0 ready might not work with this mobo. At least until a newer firmware comes out.

This board is amazing , little bit on expensive side but if your the type of guy that appreciate quality and functionality then it is the way to go.

Went to windows all fine but.... I dont recommend flashing the bios. It bricked the motherboard with a permanent q-26 error number. Reset the CMOS in every way 20 times making no difference. Than customer service told me other customers are having the same issue. I did a replacement without flashing the bios and things are fine. Other than that, great motherboard as usual

Paid for a new motherboard, received a very used board with scratches and missing thermal pads.

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.

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.

likes its got it all cons cost

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.