ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WIFI (Intel 1700)

ASUS hat mit seinem ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING WIFI ein Mainboard konzipiert, das gleich mit fünf M.2 Slots, vier SATA 6-Anschlüssen und zwei USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C-Anschlüssen punkten kann. Die auch für das Overclocking geeignete Spannungsversorgung mit 18+1 Phasen (VRMs mit 90 A Leistungsstufen) sowie das integrierte AI-Overclocking welches mit nur einen Mausklick abgerufen werden kann, brachte in unserem Fall stolze 76 % Mehrleistung. Wenn man dann noch die 7800+ MHz des Arbeitsspeichers laut Herstellerangaben vor Augen hat, wird dieses den Enthusiasten ein Grinsen ins Gesicht zaubern

This is one of the easiest conclusions I’ve had to write in a while, as this motherboard is simply brilliant in almost every regard. There is a little room for improvement, or at least, a few features that can be on similarly priced motherboards, but they’re hardly deal breakers. 2.5 GbE LAN and WiFi 6E are the main ones, both of which are more than enough for my internet speeds and home network capabilities, but some boards already have 5 GbE or even 10 GbE as well as WiFi 7 on this chipset. There is no 40 Gbps USB 4/Thunderbolt either, but admittedly, if these features were included and with all the other features already included on this motherboard, it would undoubtedly increase the price quite a bit. This is built to be a gaming motherboard, and it certainly delivers in that regard. It consistently delivered some of the best 1% lows and average frame rates across multiple games in our testing. It also scores very strong in synthetic gaming benchmarks, with all-around extremely fast CPU, memory, storage and GPU performance throughout all of our testing. However, the CPU performance is really spectacular, thanks to the overall impressive efficiency, powerful VRM configuration, and truly excellent cooling solutions, it was able to run the CPU better than expected, resulting in a motherboard that’s both great for gaming, but also content creation such as video rendering.

If there was an enthusiast motherboard that just works … this is it. After installing the Intel Core i9-13900K, DDR5-6200 ram, GeForce RTX 3090 and the rest of the components … all I did was enable XMP in the BIOS and left everything at default. The system booted up first time with no issues whatsoever. Take note Asus … if you guys can do it with this motherboard, I’m sure you can do it with your ROG Crosshair X670E Hero 😉

Feature-wise, the ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming Wifi might still be a bit lacking to some enthusiasts out there but still, I think it is packed with a handful of good features I need. Fast network connectivity options, powerful power design with reasonable cooling solutions, lots of USB ports, a good amount of storage options, and PCIe 5.0 support, which is technically more than enough for most mainstream users out there. The QOL features such as Q-latch and the improved Q-release are definitely my favorite out of all.