ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WiFi LGA 1700(Intel 14th,12th &13th Gen) ATX Gaming Motherboard(PCIe 5.0,DDR5,4xM.2 Slots,16+1 DrMOS,WiFi 6,2.5Gb LAN,Front USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C,Thunderbolt 4(USB4),Aura RGB)

This board right here? It’s the backbone of my whole build. I dropped in the i5-14600KF and my RTX 3080 FTW3, and this Z790-Plus didn’t even flinch—it was like it was born to run with beasts. Setup was smooth, BIOS was clean, and ASUS didn’t skimp on the layout. Everything’s spaced out right—no finger acrobatics needed to plug stuff in. Power delivery is clean with that 16+1 DrMOS setup, so when I pushed the CPU clocks a little, it held strong with zero drama.The DDR5 support? That’s where things really pop. I’m running some 6000MHz sticks and this board took it without a hiccup. Booted straight up, no weird voltage tweaks needed. If you’re about that snappy load time life or running heavy apps back-to-back, DDR5 on this board absolutely rips. And those 4x M.2 slots? Come on. I tossed in two drives already and still got space to expand. Fast storage everywhere, no bottlenecks in sight.Connectivity is stacked. You get WiFi 6E built in—connection is crisp, even through walls. That 2.5Gb LAN port? Super clutch when I wanna plug in and stream heavy with zero lag. Front USB-C, tons of rear I/O, Thunderbolt 4… they really thought of everything here. I’m running a dual-monitor setup with external drives and a capture card, and there’s still ports left untouched. The Aura RGB syncs up with the rest of my case lights and looks clean—not overdone, just the right glow.I’ve built on a few motherboards before, but this one feels like it was made for folks who actually use their rigs hard. It doesn’t just look tough—it is tough. Temps stay in check, airflow’s smooth, and the VRMs don’t heat up even when the CPU’s at full send. My system’s been stable, fast, and locked in ever since. Everything just plays nice together, like this board is the glue that holds the chaos together.

When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 was no longer going to be supported, I knew I was going to have to update to a new PC. I was running on an old 3rd gen Intel processor which couldn't support Windows 11 and some games required new processes that my CPU couldn't do. So, I decided it was time to build my second PC.The building process was fine and it was a decent size for the chassis I bought. It looks pretty cool too. The only real issue I had was that there were no drivers installed, so I had no networking. This meant I had to bypass a step in the Windows installation process to get to the desktop. Then, using an external hard drive and a laptop, I got all the drivers and everything was fine.I have heard stories of people needing a Bios update to use a 14th gen processor, but the one I got apparently already had the update, because it booted with CPU just fine. As I said, the only issue was with the lack of drivers, but that wasn't a particularly difficult problem once I realized that was an issue (though it would be for someone who doesn't have a spare laptop or something).Overall, this new build has been night and day compared to my old PC. It does boot very quickly, especially with a good M.2 SSD. Runs every game I've played very well. It sells for $250 on the Asus website, but I got it off Amazon for $200, and it was certainly good for the price.9/10, IGN, would play again.

Excellent motherboard. Good quality and well built. Didn’t have any problems with installation and it has worked flawlessly. I like the fact that it supports DDR5 memory. It doesn’t support the new gen 5 NVME standard, but that’s OK with me. The Gen 5 NVME shares resources with your gpu. So that’s a hard pass for me. I like the fact to , that it supports so many CPUs, that I can upgrade in the future very easily. The bios update was very straightforward and easy.. I also like the fact that the PCIE for the GPU has a locking mechanism and a button release. It has four slots for NVME drives, so there’s plenty of room for additional storage. Overall I’m well pleased with the quality and performance of this motherboard.

So far great motherboard, overclocks cpu and gpu, very quick got a nice bump in FPS, internal rgb with heatshields everywhere with alot of extra space for new things. only problem i ran into was my SSD with the OS wouldnt load and had to run legacy in the bios but i think thats my fault lol took 4 hours to figure out so i thought id make note

I have been building systems with Asus motherboards since the 90's. This is, without a doubt, the WORST mobo that I have ever had to work with. I started my build at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. It took me until 3 a.m. on Sunday morning to finally get it to work, 18 straight hours later! This mobo will display nothing, nada, zip until you play musical chairs with the memory DIMMS. You will have no idea if it's a memory problem, a mobo problem, a cpu problem, a graphics card problem because your computer will do nothing, not even beep. Once you are lucky enough to find which memory slots to use you will finally have a display and get into bios. That's where the real headache begins. If you try to tweak anything, the mobo crashes. When you finally figure out how to get the bios to install the OS, in my case Win11, it simply will not boot. It will go to restart and hang on the F1 screen. Oh you can change this, change that, change everything in the bios but you will not be able to boot to Windows. Finally, through the magic of 18 hours of curse words and frustration you might be lucky enough to boot to the OS. But you're not done. Because your next few hours of restarts will beep and flash and hang up but not boot. Finally, after enabling/disabling every bios feature over, and over, and over you will get a stable bootup to your machine. Forget about overclocking. You will be forced to use the "safe" lower fequency for your RAM if you want it to boot up. I have DDR5 5600 memory. I can only run it at 3200 for stability. Maybe there's a frequency doubling parameter that I'm missing somewhere. It should not be this difficult to install a mobo in 2023. I will never buy another Asus mobo, which is hard to say after relying on them for almost 30 years. Next time and in the future after that it will be MSI only.