Joined on 08/15/05
Pretty Great for the Price

Pros: - This board did recognize my DDR5 6400 upon initial boot (and original bios version), even loaded my XMP profile just fine.. for reference.. my ram is G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series DDR5 6400 - Less expensive than the other ASUS Boards.. - Gigabit 2.5 Lan Port - This board uses Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211, so it does support Bluetooth 5.3, unlike what the description says - First time using Armoury Crate software from ASUS which made installing all necessary drivers a breeze - highly recommended.
Cons: (all these are just minor gripes to be aware of) - Did not read the wifi card upon initial boot installation for windows 11. I needed to plug into lan to finish the installation before installing the necessary wifi drivers. - The top heatsink above the CPU is quite high - in terms of height.. you can make out in the stock pictures a bit but the reason this is a con is that for those that have certain cases installing a AIO Water Cooler Block on the top of the case may find it difficult or in some cases impossible due to the added height blocking the waterblock mount. - I wish this supported M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4 mode.. found in more expensive z790 boards, but it only supports M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4.. still fast nevertheless. - I find the I/O expansion connection ports on the back of the board a bit lacking, wish there were more USB ports :/
Overall Review: With the price of z790 boards shooting through the roof, this board was within my budget and found it to be pretty solid for what it offers. My needs were that I wanted a board to support DDR5, intel's 13th Gen CPUs, wifi capable out of the box, and had good VRM for good OC.. This board checks off all boxes. There are some small gripes and just wanted to get them out there that they are minor but the price point i think is fair compared to other board pricing. Setup: ASUS Prime Z790-A WiFi 6E LGA 1700 G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB Intel Core i7-13700KF RTX 3080 Corsair MP600 Pro 2TB
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Pros: It is a great equivalent to the PS controller. Easy Install. That's it for the pros!
Cons: CALIBRATE! This is horrible, it will not Calibrate! It worked fine but it stopped working fine, and I had to unhook it and reinsert it in, then after awhile it wouldn't work at all! Calibration is the only con you not to buy this.
Overall Review: I love Logitec*, but this control sucks. If you want another option, then you can still stick with Logitec* and buy the RumblePad 2, its great from the same company and it works. Read the reviews, this control isn't worth your time and stick with the rumble.
Great HD

Pros: Fast, very quiet, great price, and works great.
Cons: First one had to RMA.
Overall Review: I don't usually write reviews, but I felt inclined to write one after my experience with newegg's RMA process. Newegg's RMA process is by far the best in the industry! My first HD died on my right away and I contacted newegg about it, I did a little paper work and shipped it back to them and they shipped me a replacement right after they recieved the dead one. Great service, great price, and great shipping. Thanks newegg (=
Good, But Not Great

Pros: GDDR3, HDR, SM 3.0. I have Two Of These Cards In Crossfire, Overall Good Performance (benifits a great deal when your motherboard supports full x16 lance support for both pci-e slots)
Cons: The Price is A Bit High, wish the Price would drop sooner when I bought it. Not very overclockable. VGA cooler can be better, the video card gets pretty hot pretty fast. I had one these cards before I decided to buy two in crossfire and well I didn't expect the temperatures to increase the way they did. My case overall has higher temperatures now that i have two inside and even sometimes i even witness artifacts when playing games. I am now forced to buy a better VGA cooler for both cards than keep the ones it came with ):
Overall Review: Overall good solid performance single card and in crossfire. Crossfire would likely benifit you if your motherboard supports full x16 pci-e lanes for both slots. Temperatures can be a bit high, you might consider buying an aftermarket vga cooler. Overall I'm happy with my two cards in crossfire.
Great Card!

Pros: This card is great if your motherboard only supports pci or lower. You will definatly see the difference. Since i have an old emachine computer, my 3dmark2001 score jumped from 1170 to 5214. I'm very impressed.
Cons: Alittle tricky to install. Make sure you know what you're doing. Also, i had to wait a bit longer because ups messed up my order. That was the first time i asked for ups and i'm never doing that again. Choose fedex.
DVD Problems

Comments: I've bought this item hoping to burn dvd's when actually when i first installed the burner, it told me that it couldn't read the DVD decoder which i downloaded the firmware and the all the updates on the programs that it with on the Nero CD. And nothing, I'm very dissapointed, has anyone had this issue?