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- Value for money - Well built - Looks good - Regular BIOS updates (critical for early adopters) - No compatibility issues till now

4 slots for ram, m.2 2280 slot, intel 8th gen CPU. Cant ask for much more in a budget board.

I bought my first top of the line ASUS enthusiast board in 2013, a Maximus V, and then upgraded to a Maximus X 5 years later with an 8700K (A great combo!). For 2023 it's the ASUS Strix z790-E, with a 13700K (an amazing CPU price performance / save $200 over the 13900K option). If you are spending this kind of $$$ on a motherboard, you need to know what you are getting. Negative reviews always seem to come from uninformed buyers IMHO. This is an excellent board! You need to understand the PCIE lane bifurcation with these boards and know how it works. For example! The PCIEX16_1 slot shares 16 lanes with the M.2_1 slot. If you populate the M.2_1 slot, you will get X8 lanes for your GPU (no way around it and you give up 4 lanes, X8 to the GPU and X4 to the M.2_1 slot). Not a big deal really, but take that into account. There are 20 PCIE lanes for the CPU, the shared 16 and 4 more for M.2_2. So you have two M.2 slots using direct cpu PCIE lanes. 24 more lanes for the chipset, and 8 between the chipset and the cpu. So all those other lanes are for the other M.2 slots and the USB I/O. You won't be disappointed with this board if you have the budget for it. Honestly, I think it's the better value than the Hero. The Hero has the thunderbolt built into the motherboad and comes with the ASUS Hyper card for adding more M.2 storage. However, I just wouldn't use it for my needs... mostly gaming and lighter work loads. There are cases where you maximize storage and speed there over the GPU. Content creation potentially. With this board, if you need that you can buy the Hyper drive card and get really close to the Hero setup. I just didn't need the extra storage, so why spend more $$ for Hero. Plus I like the PCIE lane bifurcation on the z790-E. I paired this board with G.Skill 7200 MT/s 32 timing RAM and it works perfect under crazy load in OCCT at 7200 MT/s using the ASUS XMP Tweaked profile.

The VRMs are excellent and so are the VRM heatsinks Love the MSI one click overclock option in the BIOS ... got better (stable) results with that on my 10600k than with by manually overclocking

Compatible out of the box with 14* series refresh. Gen 5 PCIE so you have no performance loss when putting an SSD in the first slot. Easily updatable BIOS. Built in undervolting. No RGB. Lots of SATA ports for storage.

This board is awesome. It has all the features i love. The amount of connections are plenty. Installing it was incredible real easy. I had an awesome MSI board for over 6 years and it worked flawlessly. I will always get an MSI product.

Works great. Seems quite solidly built. All necessary hardware provided. Instruction manual is detailed. ASUS BIOS and Windows software is better than much of what I've seen from competitors.

The rgb on the motherboard looks really good the pcie button makes installing larger cards such as the 5090 much easier to do

Was very easy to mount and install into my tower. The manual was pretty easy to read as well in order to figure out which cables go where.

1. Super easy-to-install parts 2. It has so much versatility 3. It is going to be my main motherboard for many years to come, has a lot of future-proofing built-in, and will be easy to upgrade parts as needed for many years to come. 4. Has some fun visual customization as well

- Reliable - Uses DDR4 instead of DDR5 which is crazy expensive at this time

- No RGB - Great power-phase - 8-layers of PCB - Nice looking board

Is amazing and works well aura is a plus!

Nice board