ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WiFi LGA 1700(Intel 14th,12th &13th Gen) ATX Gaming Motherboard(PCIe 5.0,DDR5,4xM.2 Slots,16+1 DrMOS,WiFi 6,2.5Gb LAN,Front USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C,Thunderbolt 4(USB4),Aura RGB)

Cut the cost in half buying through Amazon's Used option. Inside a generic brown box, it was carefully and safely packaged for shipping. It arrived in two days! The board works flawless with all of the features that I was looking for and expected at half of the price if buying it new. There are a lot of people that ship items back without ever even using them, and I highly recommend this option and this motherboard. If someone were to choose to buy this at it's current new price, this model is still a great choice. I'm just not sure for the full price that I personally would have went this route, because other models with the same options are available. It is a fantastic board, looks great with it's sleek all black military tough vibes going on. It has a very subtle RGB lighting effect on the top right corner. The setup is very simple and easy, but I've been putting computer builds together for over 25 years. Also my Lian Li Dynamic XL RGB case I've installed this board into is quite massive and would make almost any build super easy to assemble. So the ease of assembly really depends on not just skill but the case it is being installed in as well. This is a full sized board, and not a small mATX. My experience with the bios of this board and all of the features are as expected. I've definitely favored Asus for years now. This board has had no issues with my 13600k processor, or my two sticks of DDR5 6000 memory. I've easily enabled the xmp memory profile, and overclocking features to test and they all work as they should with my 13600k P-Cores hit an astonishing 5.7Ghz. After the test I've set the board back to it's default settings. Then adjusted the thermal limit and CPU voltage, setting limits, as well as making other various adjustments to ensure a very long lifespan. It is not required, but my preference. I very highly recommend this board, and am really glad that I chose to buy it used in good condition through Amazon. While I can definitely understand that this decision on such an important component for a computer seems like a very high risk, for me it was definitely worth it, costing me only half when comparing the price of new. Overall I'm left with no regrets and big savings on a high quality, top shelf, stellar product.

Excellent motherboard. Good quality and well built. Didn’t have any problems with installation and it has worked flawlessly. I like the fact that it supports DDR5 memory. It doesn’t support the new gen 5 NVME standard, but that’s OK with me. The Gen 5 NVME shares resources with your gpu. So that’s a hard pass for me. I like the fact to , that it supports so many CPUs, that I can upgrade in the future very easily. The bios update was very straightforward and easy.. I also like the fact that the PCIE for the GPU has a locking mechanism and a button release. It has four slots for NVME drives, so there’s plenty of room for additional storage. Overall I’m well pleased with the quality and performance of this motherboard.

Great motherboard. Haven't had any issues. I love the release button for the top PCIE slot. Easy to setup and easy to flash BIOS update.

So far great motherboard, overclocks cpu and gpu, very quick got a nice bump in FPS, internal rgb with heatshields everywhere with alot of extra space for new things. only problem i ran into was my SSD with the OS wouldnt load and had to run legacy in the bios but i think thats my fault lol took 4 hours to figure out so i thought id make note

As a Software Developer with 30 years of experience building PCs/servers from the glory days of ABIT and DFI to modern platforms...I can say without hesitation: this is one of the worst motherboard experiences I’ve had in my career. The ASUS TUF Z890-Plus is simply unrelible trash.Board #1: Two Dead DIMM SlotsRight out of the box, 50% of the memory channels were non-functional. Tried every combination of QVL-approved DDR5, reseated, reset CMOS, swapped CPUs... nothing. (This isn’t exotic memory, either...just standard DDR5-6000 using Hynix A-die with onboard PMICs. Well within spec. Clearly either the memory routing, signal integrity, or channel initialization code is busted.)Board #2: BIOS Update Bricked ItOkay, got a replacement. It POSTed once. Then I ran a BIOS update ... necessary, because like many ASUS boards, the default firmware can’t recognize RAM properly or apply XMP/EXPO profiles. The update hung mid-flash during the Intel ME firmware block. Now it's a paperweight. (Why did it hang? Unknown)BIOS Flashback? More Like BIOS GaslightASUS advertises a fail-safe BIOS Flashback feature. Spoiler: it doesn’t work.I tried:FAT32-formatted USB 2.0 sticks (4GB, 8GB, 16GB)Proper .CAP file namingCorrect portNo peripheralsExact button press timingReddit Mental Gymastics (many people offer suggestions, but why should I have to hunt down a SPECIFIC size for a thumb drive? This is the year 2025, and USB 2.0 has been aroundZero response. No LED blink, no activity. Nothing. (And yes, the PSU was delivering standby power correctly..checked with multimeter. The EC isn’t initializing flashback mode. Broken out of the gate.)Here’s the insult to injury: they removed the Q-code display.No more hexadecimal POST codes to tell you where the boot fails. Instead, you get three colored lights... red, yellow, and white...like you're assembling IKEA furniture, not building a modern PC. (In 1999, my ABIT BE6 had better diagnostics.)ASUS Support = UselessYou’d think support would help. Nope. I got canned responses from a rep who clearly doesn’t even understand what "POST" means. They linked articles referencing tools made for Z490 chipsets. No escalation path. No real tech. Just corporate copy-paste.FWIW.. BIOS Flashback is a closed, proprietary ASUS implementation, and nobody outside of ASUS actually knows how it works. It relies on the embedded controller (EC) or secondary microcontroller to initialize a USB controller and write to the BIOS ROM ... without CPU, RAM, or GPU present. (Which is impressive when it works… but it often doesn’t.)Because this feature is completely undocumented and locked down, We can’t validate the expected USB power draw or signaling sequence, We can’t see how the EC validates the .CAP file internally, We don’t know the actual formatting requirements (is it FAT32 MBR with 512B sector alignment? Does it need specific VID/PID on the USB controller? Who knows?)We have no way to initiate or monitor EC activity without onboard debug headersAnd because ASUS won’t release any technical specs, the community is left to reverse-engineer everything through Reddit posts and ancient forum threads. That’s not a “feature”.. that’s a gamble!(Compare that to open-source BIOS recovery efforts on platforms like coreboot or even AMD’s AGESA flash methods, which at least have some community insight.)What’s worse: some ASUS BIOS revisions have historically broken Flashback altogether, depending on how the EC firmware handles file validation or fails at low-level USB init. So even if you follow every single step perfectly, the feature may just be nonfunctional on your particular board revision or firmware version. How would you ever know? You wouldn't... because ASUS doesn’t tell anyone anything. Their solution is to just 'send you another board' if it's broken.