The motherboard was so good, as it looks so clean when all of the internal connections was being covered up. The screen was nice cus its telling me which components is being tested when the pc starts up so I never has to look up for what the code means ever again. This motherboard make overclock so easy, as it will try 5 minutes with my new settings, and if it doesn’t work, it will automatically turn it self off and restart in save boot to get you back into the bios and never stuck in the stupid codes cycle when it fails to overclock components. And for that, I already being able to overclock my cl32 6600 mt/s to cl30 7000mt/s with ease and stability.
Quang Tri Nguyen · 2025-08-25 · via amazon
★★★★★It is expensive.
Came with good documentation. BIOS was up to date. This MB is FAST. Plenty of ports. I love it.
Delicate Sound Technologies · 2026-02-27 · via amazon
★★★★★Great board...
Just finished this build last night and really love this board, its on the pricey side and is more enthusiast than anything, but the build quality is there and I slotted a 9950X3D in mine, no problems loading up the BIOS and flashing the latest BIOS.
Dan Steiner · 2025-08-03 · via amazon
★★★★★It's not worth the cost of the board and it is limited.
This board was a beauty. Loved the design, ease of installation, and the heat sink. The LCD screen was a very nice feature, and you could even use it as a hardware monitor. What had me give this great board a 2-star rating was all the share lanes this board had. The speed and performance were limited due to only using the first M2 slot and one PCIE slot anything else would drop the performance due to lane sharing. I had to return this board because I needed more than 1 PCIE slot and did not want to drop my performance of my graphics card to have that. If you are a gamer and wanting to only use 1 PCIE slot and 1 5GEN m2 slot, then this board is awesome. However, I do not believe this board is worth the value of money that they charge for it due to its lane sharing.
Amazon Customer · 2025-11-06 · via amazon
★★★★★It mostly works but I am unhappy owning it.
I will start with some more subjective factors: The price is ridiculous and it has a bunch of (probably expensive) features that add no value for me. It also doesn't support full bandwidth on more than one PCIe bus or *probably* all the non-NVME drive ports. It also only offers four SATA ports. Those port and bandwidth limitations are imposed by the chipset, so not primarily Asus' fault, but they still frustrate me deeply for a board this expensive. It also frustrates me that Asus went with an AQC113 for the 10Gb Ethernet controller. At this price, anything less than Intel is cutting corners. I'm also not a fan of all the emphasis Asus and M.S.I. boards put on aesthetics like lighting, but at least the lighting can be turned off easily enough. Now here are some more objective factors: There is a large, expensive looking video display on the board that seems to pretty much only be used for displaying boot codes and then temperature while running. Both of those data sets also displayed by the more conventional eight segment L.E.D. display, which is just as easily visible. This feels like a huge waste of money. They should have used the high resolution display for more. At least some additional diagnostic information with the boot codes. The board uses an ALC4080 (or similar) audio controller, which is not yet supported by Linux. Users have experienced various issues depending on the implementation of the controller but many, including myself, have severe issues with audio input. Specifically, front panel volume is about 600% too quiet and rear panel doesn't seem to work at all. In my case, both output channels do seem to work, but they are missing various features. This is probably at least as much Realtek's fault as it is Asus' but the bottom line is that neither company cares about Linux users. My understandinding is that, so far, neither company has been at all helpful to the volunteer community trying to make their broken-by-design hardware work. The BIOS/EFI has a lot of very low level settings/options, which is great. For some reason though, it does not have some pretty obvious ones that others do. For example, control over the chassis L.E.D. (which blinks constantly while asleep) and control over the analogue audio modes (probably because they depend on their Windows drivers for everything). They offer a setting to re-map the chassis reset button's function, but this only seems to apply while the system is powered off. The "help" information is insultingly useless. Many settings have none at all. Almost all the rest simply state that enabling the setting enables the setting and disabling the setting disables the setting. I have no idea what half the settings/options do, even after reading the manual. Speaking of the manual, no manual was included with the mainboard. They did include a pretty good user guide, but no manual. Their website was also not particularly pleasant in terms of accessing the manual, although I was able to. The problem, in my opinion, is that they did include a bunch of weird gimmicks like metallic stickers, a branded screwdriver, and a branded bottle opener. Since the manual I downloaded didn't even mention most of their BIOS/EFI settings and offered little helpful information beyond what was in the user guide, I imagine whoever they outsourced its composition to hadn't completed it by the time they wanted to start packaging up the boxes. It wouldn't surprise me if they just decided to pinch pennies on the printed manuals though. Despite being Asus' current flagship, premium mainboard, it does not support any of the various technologies they're developed to streamline power supply to (currently only their) graphics cards. The bottom line for me is that I regret buying this, but I wouldn't be much happier with any other models from any brands currently available for this chipset. There simply aren't any consumer mainboards I would be truly happy with right now. If there were, it would run Coreboot.
