Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero: Elite board with extreme VRM

Extra tests, Motherboards | | Ľubomír Samák

An expensive but a very effective motherboard. Thus, the high purchase price of the Maximus Z690 Hero can be gradually returned in lower operating costs after fine-tuning. First and foremost, however, it is a proper support for the most powerful processors, which can be safely overclocked well beyond the capabilities of the most powerful coolers. The board also comes with an SSD expansion card, unusually.

Test setup

Intel Core i5-12900K and Intel Core i5-12400 CPUs
Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora 360 liquid cooler
Patriot Blackout memory (4×8 GB, 3900 MHz/CL18). We test motherboards with DDR5 memory support with Kingston Fury Beast (2×16 GB, 5200 MHz/CL40)
MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio graphics card
Patriot Viper VP4100 (1 TB) and Patriot Viper VPN100 (2 TB) SSDs
BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 1200 W PSU

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Note: Graphics drivers used at the time of testing: Nvidia GeForce 466.77 and OS Windows 10 build 19043


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