ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex Intel LGA 1700 ATX Gaming Motherboard, 24+0 Power Stages, PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E, 2.5 Gb Ethernet, five M.2 with Backplate Heatsinks, Thunderbolt 4 and Aura Sync

I love this board it is jam packed with features and wont dissapoint.The Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero is a Premium Motherboard from a Company you can Trust.This board is an Excellent Choice for Gaming and what i use also for my Day to Day Video editing and Normal activity.It has wifi 6e, thunderbolt 4. ddr5 memory support and an expantion card for even more nvme storage.it has support for latest intel cpus.An excellent all round motherboard

Motherboard arrived quickly and well packaged. The board was really nice and clean looking, I really love the look of the heat sinks on the VRM's and around the PCIE area. The board had a good selection of rear IO ports and also a good selection of connectors on the motherboard ranging from RGB connections, lots of fan headers and a selection of connectors for water coolers to monitor them correctly.The motherboard came with all the necessary pieces and some nice extras which included a wrist strap (ROG) a fan and mount to provide extra cooling which was all nice. Instructions were easy to read and my computer booted straight away. Would highly recommend this board if you plan on using a higher end CPU to overclock as there is a good amount of cooling and support for cooling.

Really happy with this board so far. only had it running a few days though.Building was fast and easy. only a slight issue with the size of the rear io fitting in my phantek p400 case. i had to leave some motherboard screws out. Also the board is thin so i had to shim the cpu cooler mount on my corsair H100 v2. I did this with some washers.Im running an i5 9600k in mine and with the cooler its sitting at 30 degrees (fans on silent). on boost its about 50 so plenty of room for overclocking. I'll report back once ive done that. The CPU mount is tight so it was a little scary pulling that lever down. Its been a while since i last did one. But it located perfectly.the AI suite software has advanced a lot since my old p8p67 pro. Also the Bios is really easy to use. I had windows up and running in less that 15 minutes using UEFI boot.Fan control is awesome. also the RBG lighting looks pretty pimp.The motherboard doesn't come in a static bag. I thought this was strange but apparently its normal for ROG boards. That said the board worked great so obviously isn't an issuei've included some pictures. I haven't tidied the fan wires yet because they are too short so don't judge me lolUPDATE: The CPU temp is stuck on 11 degrees. This is in both bios and AI suite. This makes tuning the fans difficult. I seem to remember Asus temps are always a bit wild but this is clearly a fault. I'm going to run a 2pin thermal sensor instead and hope its just a software issue.now running 4.8ghz with 1.35 volts. realtemp is showing 70 degrees max temp.

This motherboard is amazing. (Z590 Maximus XIII Hero)I'm using it mainly for music production and combined with Intel 11th Gen 11700K CPU, a WD Black SN850 SSD and 32gb Corsair Vengeance Pro Ram its ridiculously fast.No slow down or audio problems, even with loads of plug ins open in Ableton at once.The connectivity options are amazing, with plenty of USB 3.2 ports and 2 X Thunderbolt 4 ports you can connect most current USB midi instruments, External Hard Drives, Monitors etc.Is super future proof and will last me at least 10 years I reckon as I've left myself room to upgrade graphics, ssd, ram and CPU if I need to later on.Highly Recommended Motherboard!!

Good board, but be aware of its limitations. The first board I received had a bent over and snapped capacitor and bent pins, the second was fine.HDMI out didn't work at all (post d6 code) when I first received the board, luckily I had a simple PCIE graphics card to hand that I could quickly throw in to get the BIOS updated, running the latest BIOS version resolved the issue completely.However, be aware of its storage limitations, if you use NVMe slot 2 it takes the PCI-E slots down from 16x to 8x, using slot 4 disables SATA 5&6 and to add insult to injury using the third PCI-E slot then disables SATA 3&4. So for a board supposedly with 4 NVMe slots and 6 SATA ports, in reality I have 3 NVMe slots and 2 SATA ports.

I bought this motherboard to make use of my new 12900k motherboard and DDR5 RAM... really simply to install if you know what you're doing. So many USB ports and plenty of SSD slots and a really simple reset CMOS button. However I did purchase 4 x Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 16GB and they would not overclock via XMP, this is due to the amount (4) along with a bug with 12th Gen Intel & the Motherboard bios... so if you're after overclocking your RAM I would wait until this is resolved. Other than that this is a great motherboard and I would definitely recommend if you're looking to build a futureproof PC or upgrade your existing one!

I'm using this motherboard over month and now I'm expirence hight temp of Chipest during my resarch I found video on YouTube called "Z690 Chipset Motherboards Getting Burned From The Inside Out? Let's Take A Look"Which seems about right. I got idle temp of 69c and during long gaming the cipset overheats and shutdown the PC.. Seems I will need RMA this board.

Z490 Maximus XII HEROCouldn't be happier with this beast, best build quality and stability I've ever experienced in motherboards and I built my first PC in 1994!This thing is driving a i9 10900k at 5.3GHz accross 10 cores, who cares if the cpu is sucking upto 250watt as you don't buy high performance parts if your worried about TDP.5.3Ghz all day long, completely stable, passes prime and cinebench 60 minute stability test and NO thermal throttling, the CPU is colled by an ASUS STRIX LC 360 AIO.My ROG STRIX Z490-E couldn't keep my CPU stable at 5.3ghz all cores but the Maximus does it with ease, those VRMS are worth the extra.

The board arrived with bent argb pins, bent pin in cpu socket and broken polymo diffuser. It also looked like it was used or returned and just repackaged as new.

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Excellent VRM design ,power delivery ,high end connectivity , storage data capabilities. Price is high should be 20-25% less.Also the best Bios layout and support from all z690 hands down.Cpu overclocking is top notch ,memory overclocking needs better support.Nohing non configurable through future bios updates though.

I have been a huge fan of Asus motherboards and peripherals for many years. I have the following components:- Rog Maximus Z690 Hero- 4 x 8GB G.Skill RAM - on order- intel i9 12900K- Noctua NH-U12A chromax cooler- Rog Strix 850G- NVidia RTX 3080- Sabrent M2 NVMEI find the packaging of the motherboard absolutely first class and board is well protected - even from an Amazon delivery .. ;)Opening the package the motherboard exudes quality and finesse - a beautiful piece of engineering.The layout looks stunning, and the designers have gone to town here on all the design elements. You are almost tempted just to leave it in the box and admire it!I also love the quick release mechanism of the first PCIE slot - a superb addition!I expect the motherboard to work flawlessly as all the other ROG motherboards have done in the past ...Unfortunately my RAM is onback order ... if it arrives soon i will add further comments to this ..All the best with your purchases, with ASUS though you cannot go wrong!

Nach rund zwei Monaten im Einsatz mega zufrieden. Bios Update wie gewohnt sehr einfach und sicher bei Asus. Gerade bei sehr neuen Mainboards kommt man oft nicht um ein Bios Update herum, da gerade zu Beginn "nachgebessert" wird.3 NVME's sind bei Full Speed (ca. 3 GB/s) installierbar. Tipp: Wer NVME's verbaut, sollte sich vor dem Einbau die Mühe machen, die NVME's auf Initialisierung zu prüfen (nicht zu verwechseln mit Formatierung). Ist die NVME nicht initialisiert, wird sie nicht im BIOS und nicht in WINDOWS angezeigt. Das Ausbauen nach dem Einbau ist sehr ärgerlich. Hierzu eignet sich z.B. die ICY BOX M.2 NVMe SSD Gehäuse, USB-C 3.1 Anschluss (Gen2, 10 Gbit/s), PCIe M-Key, Aluminium, schwarz. In meinem Fall war eine von drei NVME's nicht initialisiert.Zum Sound: Der Onboard-Sound ist MEGA. Selbst meine 10 Jahre alte Logitech Boxen mit Subwoofer klingen plötzlich viel besser. Ein Mega Unterschied.Zum USB: 2 x USB 3 und 2x USB 2 und 1x Typ cWer 4 Front USB 3 hat, kann mit einem internen Adapterkabel aus dem zweiten USB 3 einen USB 2 Anschluss machen (besser als gar nichts). Hierzu eignet sich: DeLock Kabel USB 2.0 Pin Header Buchse > USB 3.0 Pin Header Stecker 30 cm.