Asus PRIME Z790-A WIFI (90MB1CS0-M0EAY0)

A solid, well-equipped motherboard from the 2022 Asus Prime family. It stands out against the background of its brothers due to the use of an advanced 17-phase power system, PCI-E 4.0 bus and support for DDR5 reactive RAM with a clock frequency of up to 7200 MHz. Based on the top-end 2022 Intel Z790 chipset, equipped with an Intel LGA 1700 socket, designed for the installation of Intel Core Alder Lake (12th generation) and Raptor Lake (13th generation) APUs.

The manufacturer is positioning itself as a near-top model that will become a solid and reliable foundation for a gaming or work PC with a 6/8/12-core processor, a powerful RTX 3070-level video card, a large amount of fast RAM and several reactive M.2 SSD drives. Unlike motherboards from the Asus ROG series, this model focuses not on backlighting or advanced overclocking tools, but on reliability and durability.

All elements are powered by a digital 17-phase cascade system with a high-quality element base, PCI-E slots are reinforced with reinforced fiber, and M.2 ports are covered with heatsinks that prevent the memory controller from heating when using the PCI-E 4.0 bus. The use of the flagship Z790 chipset expanded the modest overclocking capabilities of Prime boards. In particular, the board is equipped with a proprietary complex for optimizing CPU AI Cooling II, and also supports Intel XMP 3.0 technologies and the Asus AEMP II proprietary memory auto-overclocking feature. The board layout provides 4 M.2 ports for SSD drives and 4 SATA3 slots for more traditional HDD and SSD drives. A 2.5-gigabit LAN controller from Intel is responsible for processing network traffic. Despite belonging to the household series, the model supports the installation of LED strips and water cooling, and its logo was equipped with backlighting with Aura Sync support.