Underneath the heatsink, you’ll find a total of three M.2 slots for your high-speed storage needs. The first slot is connected to the CPU, while the bottom two are connected to the chipset, but you can get two more via the ROG Hyper M.2 expansion card if you need more. PCIe 5.0 is one of the new features available on the Z690 chipset motherboards but it’s currently supported on the first and second PCIe x16 slots, depending on your setup – x16 or x8/x8 configuration.
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But it will be in its construction where it shines the brightest, with a VRM of 20 + 1 phases of 90A, a total of 5 M.2 slots adding its ROG Hyper M.2 card , and an impressive rear panel with dual Thunderbolt 4. Neither it overlooks incorporating the best sound integrated with a SupremeFX ALC4082 + DAC codec and Wi-Fi 6E. How will the 12900K behave on your socket? Let’s get started!
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Asus ProArt Z690-CREATOR WIFI It will be our protagonist today, a high-end motherboard with connectivity and features adapted to a greater extent to content creators . The obvious thing will be the design, but the connectivity reflects that character very well, with dual Thunderbolt 4 ports for varied connections, 2.5G + 10G LAN for internal networks or high-speed NAS, or front USB-C with fast charging of 60W.
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The only downside concerns the price of this APEX version, which is currently around 750 euros while the Z590 version was available at 550 euros at launch. Now this rise in motherboards seems to affect almost all brands. Let’s hope that these prices decrease in the coming weeks in order to be modeled on those of the previous generation. Remember that you will also need to invest in DDR5.
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The ASUS Z690-Plus TUF Gaming WiFi D4 is all the PCI Express 5.0 and 12th Gen Intel goodness, but wrapped up in a package that supports DDR4 instead of DDR5. Naturally our first question was whether this was a wise move on their part, and how much of a difference it will make to the performance of your system. You don’t want to get a brand new CPU and get it hamstrung by RAM, but equally you don’t want to needlessly spend money if there is no performance benefit to be had.
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The Z690-E is the newest addition to that famous range and has seen a little bit of a revision to the aesthetics in comparison to other Strix products we’ve seen recently. No longer does the box have the famous multi-hued ROG Eye that is so readily identifiable, instead the packaging is much more like one of the Maximus/Rampage ASUS models. The board itself has also dispenses with the glitchy font that plagued the last hardware set and, instead, has a much more toned down look than you might expect to find.
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One of the strengths of the Asus ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming WiFi is the excellent connectivity it offers, because in addition to a wide range of USB ports , it offers an Intel I225V 2.5 GbE card and an Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 tri-band (2.4 / 5/6 GHz) capable of reaching up to 2.4 Gbps , also offering Bluetooth 5.2 .
Equally important is the sound system ROG Supreme FX 7.1 , which combines the DAC Realtek ALC4080 , audio 7.1 and 32 – bit / 384kHz , and the amplifier Savitech SV3H712 , all technology – enhanced Sonic Studio III .
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The delivery set, traditionally for these boards, is minimal – a user manual, a quality certificate, branded stickers on the battery, a disk with drivers, a pair of SATA cables and screws for fixing M.2 drives with gaskets for single-sided models. An external antenna for the pre-installed Intel Wi-Fi 6 module is located in a separate bag.
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Intel’s new 12th generation processors are particularly demanding on the power subsystem and its cooling, so this required a significant change in these aspects of the board. In this article, we will get acquainted with a miniITX board from ASUS, which is capable not only of working with the latest 8 + 8-core Intel, but also with high-speed DDR5 memory. Not without an active system, but not only in it. Let’s move on to exploring the ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-I Gaming WiFi!
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ASUS ProArt Z690-Creator WiFi comes in a box with a Creator series design – in black with golden inserts that form the name of the series. On the front side, you can also find out the full name of the model and see several logos of the technologies used.
On the back of the box, the manufacturer posted technical specifications and highlighted several key features of the model – these are the presence of two Thunderbolt 4 ports in the Type-C version (40 Gbps each), the presence of two built-in network adapters with speeds of 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps. c, support for PCIe standard 5.0 with the main x16 slot, support for four M.2 drives with PCIe standard 4.0, as well as support for the ASUS Control Center Express software package.
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