ASUS ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi LGA 1700(Intel 14th & 13th & 12th Gen) ATX gaming motherboard(16+1 power stages, DDR5, four M.2 slots, PCIe 5.0, WiFi 6E,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C with PD 3.0 up to

When I pulled it out of the box, really loved the aesthetics of it. Found it very easy to install and set up all components. Easy to download drives and setup. Have no issues with performance. My only gripe would be the website, when trying to find the drivers to download was a little bit of a pain to get to. But that has nothing to do with the Motherboard itself.

This motherboard is excelent. Has all the features 99% of user will ever need. The white and silver goes great with my white PC build. So far 0 issues and I'm very happy with my purchase.

This is my first motherboard that I spent more than what I usually spend in my life and I was very surprised with how pretty the motherboard is to begin with. Not to mention how I did not have any issues with upgrading the BIOS and overclocking the RAM. First motherboard to have a WiFi and bluetooth embedded and this is great. Thank you! I also like how I can control the LED on the motherboard through Corsair icue software as well.

This board was perfect for what I needed. My chipset was too old for windows 11 and needed upgrades. This motherboard came well packaged and ready to go. I was able to install the new hardware in no time.

Upgraded from z490, I can tell that ASUS has been improving. Board is great for a all white build and Armoury Crate software has improved compare to prior. Small issues are memory on high speeds for 7000mhz+ on XMP is not 100% stable even on though stated on QVL, this might be a 13th gen thing.

Great quality, and great design for a motherboard. the specs of speed and data that can handle is High quality, Description for the Product was well describe to know if it would be compatible to handle my other PC components.

Overall it is a great board. Have it running for few weeks and no issues. Below is the quick breakdown. Pros: 1. DDR5 2. PCI-E Gen5 3. Color 4. Easy to install Cons: 1. It has only 1 USB 3.2 header. When installing on Helio which has 4 USB 3 at the top, you have to utilize the USB2 header and sacrifice the speed. It would make sense a gaming mobo algins with the gaming case. 2. Gen5 PCIE slot doesn't work with the Riser Cable. The Asus Strix Riser Cable, RS200. It works fine with RTX3070 Ti FE but doesn't work with ROG Strix RTX4080 OE. Even I drop bio to Gen 3 still doesn't work.

The interface between ASUS Armor Crate and iCue is broken. Need to stop suggesting it works. This means my system LEDs are half iCue and half ASUS. Looks horrible. Nice hardware, weak software. Next time I'll buy a cheaper motherboard with no LED lighting.

By and large a good mobo. However, I am critical of some features. The M.2 slots are goofy. Instead of having a standoff which takes a screw to fasten down the M.2 the board has these funny, hard to handle little removable plastic latches. Also Don't get an M.2 with a heatsink. It will never fit below the heatsinks which are integral with this board. I disable the default boot screens because I like to see attached devices on boot up. Sometimes this board forgets to detect all of my sata drives.This is more of an annoyance rather than a defect in performance. This board is better on expansion slots than many. You get several 16X PCIe slots plus one 1X PCIE slots. However, today mobo manufacturers don't give you many slots. I have seen dome which have only two. Not acceptable. I am this last criticism at all mobo manufacturers not just Asus

I wanted to give more stars but the fact that the quality control of this product was terrible is the reason I'm at 3 stars.. there needs to be specification when a product that's being sold to a consumer advertised as new is in fact a warranty repaired and certified item.. this product besides the beauty came with many many hard deep scratches on the heat sinks and a really permanent stain on one of the heat sinks not sure if it was Liquid Metal that got on that heat sink or what but it's not coming out at all and I don't use Liquid Metal on any of my builds just plain mx6 thermal paste.. overall I'm happy that the product I received was atleast functional and all the pins were properly placed although some pins looked replaced.. as time passes Im not sure I want to be without my new pc to spend months with a RMA ticket and then the next board I get is worse than my first one.. I wish asus support was better to ensure customers get what the customer paid for. If I had received a completely new board without those issues this review would of been 5 stars all day!