Pros: Very cool. 67F (19C) room temperature, i9-12900k idle at 27C. Works with LGA 1700 LED syncs

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: Fits my full tower nicely and it runs quite. I had a 3 x 120mm liquid cooler before. This 2 x 120mm is cooler than that.

Pros: Best BIOS/UEFI Ever. Every easy to overclock. XMP RAM, single click 5GHz CPU OC, etc. Good looking board. Looks like its made from carbon fiber material.

Cons: RAM that I bought, G.Skill 3200Mhz (In ASUS' qualified vendor list) does not cold boot from this board. This can be temporarily fixed by either power cycle my PSU or lowering the RAM frequency to 2933Mhz in BIOS. I contacted ASUS support, they have no idea. They also told me there is no ETA when there will be a BIOS firmware update to address this problem.

Overall Review: RMA'ed.

Pros: High frequency while keeping the latency low LED on the top animation looks pretty cool.

Cons: None discovered yet

Overall Review: Sadly as soon as I enable XMP profile (Tried all XMP profile selections) the PC gets BSOD as soon as exiting POST. Manually lower it to 7800mhz, it will boot into Windows then hard lock randomly. Lowering further to 7400Mhz seems to be stable. Benchmarked in Cyberpunk 2077. This RAM boosted 6FPS @ 7400mhz over my old DDR4 4000mhz RAM. Did not workout but I do see performance increase. Unfortunately I'm returning it as it is not able to run at advertised speed.

Overall Review: Upgraded from i9-12900k. Identical hardware, system OS. +16.3% Single-Core performance gain +17.6% Multi-Core performance gain I'm so ready for the up coming RTX 5980Ti to fully unleash this beast.

Pros: - Looks just as cool as ROG variant - Uses DDR4. Cheaper and easier to find. With a good pair of RAM it runs just as good a DDR5. - BIOS feature is the same as my old ASUS Maximus X Hero

Cons: - Less LED than ROG variant. But hey.. I paid what I get. Not a real con here. - DDR4. Double-edged sword. It isn't future proof as DDR5 is becoming the new standard.

Overall Review: Good ASUS quality as always. A good LGA 1700 board DDR4 alternative. BIOS offers advanced features as much as ROG variant.

Pros: Run everything maxed out. +90Mhz GPU Clock, +500MHz Memory Clock, + 25% Power Target runs around 70C at 80% fan speed under full load. Normal load runs quite.

Cons: Expensive performance gain from GTX 1080 TI. 10 - 20 FPS gain depend on the game but nothing crazy. Not a lot of games support ray tracing at the moment. 300W+ energy draw under full load...

Overall Review: "Coil whine" high pitch noise from the capacitors were driving me nuts. (even at idle) I was about to RMA this card but I then swapped the 6+2 pin connector ports just for haha, the whine magically stopped completely.... The only thing that is different is that one of the 6+2 connectors is from the PSU directly, one is from the PSU modular port. Still can't believe swapping the connectors fixed the issue, but lol I don't have to deal with RMA now.