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)

Great motherboard with solid build quality. Installation was straightforward and everything worked perfectly right away. Performance has been very stable so far and the features are excellent for a gaming setup.

Cut the cost in half buying through Amazon's Used option. Inside a generic brown box, it was carefully and safely packaged for shipping. It arrived in two days! The board works flawless with all of the features that I was looking for and expected at half of the price if buying it new. There are a lot of people that ship items back without ever even using them, and I highly recommend this option and this motherboard. If someone were to choose to buy this at it's current new price, this model is still a great choice. I'm just not sure for the full price that I personally would have went this route, because other models with the same options are available. It is a fantastic board, looks great with it's sleek all black military tough vibes going on. It has a very subtle RGB lighting effect on the top right corner. The setup is very simple and easy, but I've been putting computer builds together for over 25 years. Also my Lian Li Dynamic XL RGB case I've installed this board into is quite massive and would make almost any build super easy to assemble. So the ease of assembly really depends on not just skill but the case it is being installed in as well. This is a full sized board, and not a small mATX. My experience with the bios of this board and all of the features are as expected. I've definitely favored Asus for years now. This board has had no issues with my 13600k processor, or my two sticks of DDR5 6000 memory. I've easily enabled the xmp memory profile, and overclocking features to test and they all work as they should with my 13600k P-Cores hit an astonishing 5.7Ghz. After the test I've set the board back to it's default settings. Then adjusted the thermal limit and CPU voltage, setting limits, as well as making other various adjustments to ensure a very long lifespan. It is not required, but my preference. I very highly recommend this board, and am really glad that I chose to buy it used in good condition through Amazon. While I can definitely understand that this decision on such an important component for a computer seems like a very high risk, for me it was definitely worth it, costing me only half when comparing the price of new. Overall I'm left with no regrets and big savings on a high quality, top shelf, stellar product.

Its an amazing motherboard this is my first time replacing a motherboard and it was easy to do i can see the difference in performance right away and it looks amazing in my case, I had an asus prime so the bios is similar so it was easy to update too it got good quality and features, I love it. Oh and dont but electric used from here because the motherboard i bought used was not turning on so I had to return it and buy it new. Yeah just buy it new if you have the money and no time. And the one I got used didn't even have all the parts I dont think amazon actually checks them or test products before trying to resell them. Just be careful with that.

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

Pros Trusted brand Great connectivity Included very updated bios, perfect for latest CPU models Looks sleek Includes a broad range of connectivity options and a modern antenna Features the INTEL 2.5G ethernet adapter which for me is preferred over Realtek for speed and reliability Supports DDR5 RAM Good SSD and VRM cooling Cons Compared to MSI, I do believe the power delivery to the PSU isn't as refined at this price point 4/5 stars because from a sheer competitive aspect the MSI is hard to beat at this price point. The Asus VRM Switching Frequency on this model is limited to 500KHz which is half that of MSI's, that says something, and I can feel the difference in responsiveness

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.

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.