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Stuart B.

Stuart B.

Joined on 05/22/05

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Most Critical Review

Worthless

ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme (WiFi 6E) LGA 1700(Intel®12th&13th Gen) EATX gaming motherboard (PCIe 5.0, DDR5,24+1 105A power stages,5x M.2,1xPCIe 5.0 M.2,10Gb&2.5Gb LAN,2xThunderbolt 4 onboard, AniMe Matrix LED,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 front-panel)
ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme (WiFi 6E) LGA 1700(Intel®12th&13th Gen) EATX gaming motherboard (PCIe 5.0, DDR5,24+1 105A power stages,5x M.2,1xPCIe 5.0 M.2,10Gb&2.5Gb LAN,2xThunderbolt 4 onboard, AniMe Matrix LED,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 front-panel)

Pros: excellent capacity for M.2 NVME and great OC headroom. Love the displays being color now on both

Cons: poor quality control

Overall Review: I don't recommend this. I am moving from the Z690 Rog Maximus Extreme to this and regret it. I am mounting a EKWB Monoblock to the board and to do this I I removed the backplate that's on this motherboard unlike the previous version. What i found is very very thick thermal pads way in excess of 3mm on the back of the board that were torn from poor factory install and not covering the chipsets properly. I need replacement pads and contacted ASUS who wont replace the bad from factory pads nor will they give me the sizes so I can buy my own pads to fix the board. I cant measure them myself due to the torn and worn pads that obviously where installed wrong. ASUS has horrible customer service and I cant return it now to Newegg, they wont honor warranty nor RMA it. So I have a 1K dollar paper weight now till I can find pads. On a side note I had issues with the Z690 version too having a bad wireless receiver which again ASUS would not replace as they claim they don't carry replacement parts so I had to buy my own aftermarket one. I will no longer buy ASUS products.

11/15/2022

Ok but RGB control is lacking

G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 7600 (PC5 60800) Desktop Memory Model F5-7600J3646G16GX2-TZ5RK
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 7600 (PC5 60800) Desktop Memory Model F5-7600J3646G16GX2-TZ5RK

Pros: Fast speed

Cons: RGB requires its own software to run at all times and defaults to rainbow if not used Does not work with icue

Overall Review: I will be returning this as Corsair just came out with 7600mhz kits that are icue compatible and this G.skill kit isn't.

11/11/2022