ASUS ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi II (WiFI 7) LGA 1700(Intel 14th & 13th & 12th Gen) ATX gaming motherboard(DDR5,5X M.2 slots,PCIe 5.0 x16,front-panel USB connector with PD 3.0 up to 30W)

After having this motherboard for almost a whole year I have only the best feedback about it. This thing is amazing! I love ASUS’s products and this one is exceptional. The BIOS is very clean and there are a lot of support videos out there on what settings to use. My PC is an all white build and the MB looks really clean in it. It is very fast to boot up and I run all kinds of games and have no issues with my setup. I know I went with DDR4 ram but honestly I don’t think DDR5 will make much of a difference for a while. There are plenty of USB ports on it but I do find myself using all of them. This is sitting in the ROG Hyperion PC tower and it looks like it was made specifically for it!

I started with a AMD build from a Black Friday sale and had the AMD version of this board (I forget the number). While I loved that board, I just couldn't live with the 30-45 second start-up due to the memory "training" on every power up. I returned that board and cpu and bought the Intel version (this board). It is a beautiful board in function and aesthetics. Everything is great except there is a 6 second coil from the port area while when I first power the board. I can live with that because it goes away as soon as the drivers load. I almost freaked out because I couldn't get my Bluetooth to work. After a reddit search I learned that the Wifi antenna must be plugged in to get bluetooth. I'm not a fan of that, because I have Lan and the antenna adds clutter. But, I'll try to live with it. I still give the board 5 stars for the performance and functionality. I am not sure what to think about the Armoury Crate bloatware. For now, I am running without it.

I love it. A lot of great features and it works great with my 14900k

Beautiful motherboard that works great with a white build. Built in LED is great quality and motherboard has a fair number of aRGB connections. Worked with my i714700k out of the box with no bios update, though I was also able to easily update it anyways. Bios is easy to navigate and overclocking is also relatively simple. The only negative I would say is the motherboard only has one usb 3.0 connection so if your pc case has multiple usb 3.0 connections you will need to get a pcie usb 3.0 expansion.The motherboard also has a gpu release button which is convenient for larger gpus.My build has a GeForce Aero OC 4090 side mounted which worked flawlessly with this motherboard as well. Another great benefit is the pcie lanes do not get bottlenecks by connecting extra M.2 drives or expansion cards.Motherboard has gen 4 M.2 but not gen5

This was super interesting to setup.Hardware setup went fine. Love how the M.2 SSD Slot has a toggle on where you would expect to add a screw for stability. Lots of room peripherals.When I completed the hardware setup, the first thing I did was put in a m.2 hard drive I installed windows 10 on in the past to try it out. I was so elated to see that it worked! Another successful desktop build. However, there was no internet connectivity from the ethernet cord or the WiFi antennae. I tried both cat5 and cat6 but to no avail.So I think, ok cool, no worries. Let me download the LAN and WiFi drivers for the motherboard from the ASUS site from a different computer onto a usb. However, when I launched the setup exe I got an error of "Does not support this Operating System: WNT_10**_64". Alright no problem, let me download a windows 11 ISO and upgrade. Still same error. Ok, no worries, let me fresh install windows 11. Still same issue.I finally got it working after the following: Downloading the BIOS firmware update onto a USB and flashing it in BIOS. Firmware update went fine. After that, I installed the WiFi driver by running the setup.exe directly off the zip file on the flash drive. For some reason, extracting the zip file onto my desktop and running the exe from the extracted folder kept encountered the "Does not support" issue. However, running both the WiFi and LAN driver setup from the respective zip files in the flash drive worked just fine.Overall, pretty happy with this motherboard. The bluetooth works great but needs the antennae dongle to catch bluetooth signal. For WiFi, the antennae dongle is required as well. I tested it out without the dongle and it worked fine but the signal showed 2-3 out of 4 connectivity bars even though my router is 8 feet away from the desktop.USB 3.2 data transfer works amazing. The 10g USB slots work like a charm with blazing speed when I migrated my old non-m.2 ssds to a newly bought m.2 ssd. Can't wait to try the 20g usb-c slot when I get the opportunity.Five days so far with this motherboard and its been great. Setting up the LAN / WiFi drivers in the beginning was a challenge but if you read my experience above you should be able to get through it.

The seller is very fast and correct, great product.