ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO

ASUS launches the new ROG Maximus Z690 HERO motherboard, which uses a 20 + 1 Power Stage design power supply module, and adds various AI automatic overclocking functions to give full play to the full potential of the new generation of CPU and DDR5 memory, providing powerful hardware specifications And have excellent overclocking capabilities. Coupled with dual Thunderbolt 4, 3 + 2 NVMe SSD slot configuration and PCIe 5.0 slot and other complete connectivity and expandability, it will hit the high-end market with the positioning of the entry flagship motherboard.

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This motherboard comes with full support for all Intel 12th Gen processors, DDR5 RAM, PCIe 5.0, has 2.5Gb LAN (which we’d love to see bumped up to 10Gb), and a 20+1 power stage design for stable overclocking. It’s a great place to start for building a powerful PC, so long as you don’t mind paying a little more.

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Asus designed the ROG Maximus Z690 Hero with a total of 20+1 power stages with circuits that are able to handle up to 90 amps of current each. The power-regulation hardware is a vital component for any high-end motherboard hosting an unlocked Intel “K”-version processor (and all the initial six Alder Lake chips are K units), especially when it comes to overclocking; the composition of the power stages enables us to roughly (very roughly) gauge how well the board should overclock relative to the competition. 

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The high-end ROG Maximus series returns the Z690 Extreme, Hero, Apex, and Formula. For midrange gaming, there are several ROG Strix boards (Z690-E/F/G/A) along with a Mini ITX Z690-I Gaming WIFI. Two TUF series boards, Gaming Z690-Plus D4 and Plus WIFI D4, make up the budget entries and support DDR4 (as does the Strix Z690-A Gaming WIFI D4). Last is the Z690-Creator WIFI that’s focused on content creators. Prices vary wildly like any product stack, but historically, Asus is competitive in the market but generally priced slightly higher in some categories.

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Starting with the basics, the Maximus Z690 Hero is more than capable of handling the most powerful CPUs that Intel has to offer this generation, including the Core i7 and i9 processors. The new p- and e-core design places more demands on the operating system to delegate duties in a more dynamic manner, necessitating the development of a motherboard power supply circuit that can react quickly to changes in load. In order to achieve this requirement, the Hero is equipped with a battery of twenty 90A power stages, which are organized into ten paired phases, which ensures that transitions between efficiency and performance cores are handled as seamlessly as possible.

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The ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero features a robust VRM cooling solution paired with twenty 90 A power stages for a rounded CPU overclocking experience. A BIOS flashback has also been included, as well as ASUS’s stress-free overclocking with AI Optimized. The ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero also offers great connectivity with the newest WiFi 6E technology, Thunderbolt 4, and three onboard M.2 slots. There is a lot to cover in this review, so let’s take a closer look at what the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero has to offer.

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