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)

Motherboard arrived with slightly misaligned mounting holes, this led to some minor scraping at the site of one of the holes when the screw would not thread through. Once assembled, the board would not send power to attached components and the PC would not turn on. Took the PC to technicians who determined the motherboard was not routing power. Sent the board in for repair. Received a response that the scrape voided the warranty on the board. The scrape came from poor manufacturing processes and had nothing to do with the malfunctioning of the power circuits in the board. Poor production quality and very poor customer service. 1/10 would not recommend.

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 board is garbage, for the sole fact that it will never be able to run a gen 5 ssd, why? Because it only supports a gen 5 in the hypercard in the 2nd pcie slot, but with todays thick GPUs that slot is covered completely by the GPU.

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

Very Good

I had all sorts of issues with 128GB of ram initially, but eventually got it all working.

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.

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

Excelenter placa, como todas las de la linea Hero.

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.