ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming Wi-Fi Motherboard Assessment

Introduction, Specs, and Pricing

The ROG Strix collection of motherboards has come on fairly strongly within the final two generations, giving customers a close to equivalent BOM to the ROG Hero at a a lot decrease price. Intel Z790 is nearer than ever to this, with small adjustments being made to the facility supply and connectivity to decrease the price simply sufficient.

Full {hardware} specs for this motherboard begin first with an 18+1 energy design on Socket LGA1700. This provides us help for twelfth and thirteenth Gen CPUs and help for DDR5 reminiscence. Reminiscence capability runs as much as 192GB with the brand new 48GB modules, whereas the efficiency of these modules may be pushed upwards of 7800MHz with help for XMP 3.0.

Enlargement for the Strix Z790 consists of three PCIe x16 slots, the highest slot alone providing Gen5 connectivity whereas the 2 different slots pull Gen4 lanes from the chipset. Storage help consists of 5 m.2 slots, equivalent to Hero; this consists of M.2_1 at PCIe 5.0 x4 and slot two once more from the CPU utilizing PCIe 4.0. Three further slots pull from the chipset, and all help PCIe 4.0. Legacy storage may be arrange with the 4 SATA ports obtainable.

Connectivity consists of DP and HDMI, 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1, and 6 Gen 2 utilizing Kind-A connections. USB-C may be discovered with two ports on the rear of the motherboard. Rounding this up, we’ve got WiFI6e, 2.5Gbe, and seven-channel audio.

Pricing

Pricing for the ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming Wi-Fi is available in at $499.99.

Packaging, Equipment, and Overview

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Packaging hasn’t modified an excessive amount of in design; it is similar to different ROG motherboards. {Hardware} help is famous backside proper with a picture of the board on the entrance.

On the flip facet, we’ve got a picture of the board to the left with full specs beneath. To the fitting, we’ve got the main options of this board referred to as out.

Included with the board, we obtained a person handbook, a Wi-Fi antenna, and SATA cables.

Motherboard Overview

The Strix has its personal design for heatsinking. The VRM and chipset with their very own sinks, as do every of the m.2 slots.

On the bottom, we’ve got a principally clean board with ROG script.

The rear I/O offers us DP and HDMI up high, then Clear CMOS and our first grouping of USB 3.2 ports. Additional down, we’ve got 2.5Gbe and the Wi-Fi antenna connections, the underside giving us the audio outputs.

The entrance panel audio connections and Thunderbolt header may be discovered alongside the underside of the board. We additionally observe a number of fan headers and two USB 2.0 connections.

Additional, we discover further fan headers and entrance panel chassis connections.

Across the nook, you’ll observe the SATA ports to the fitting and USB 3.2 header to the left.

Nearer to the highest, we’ve got one other two headers for USB 3.2 and 24-pin energy.

Throughout the highest, we’ve got {hardware} buttons, the debug LED, and RGB and fan connections.

Wrapping our tour of the board, we’ve got twin 8-pin CPU energy.

UEFI, Software program and Take a look at System

UEFI

This BIOS ought to look acquainted to anybody who has used a ROG platform in the previous couple of generations, together with, as of late, Strix choices.

Excessive Tweaker consists of present CPU and reminiscence clocks on the high, tuning for each beneath. The superior menu consists of choices for SATA storage, PCH, Thunderbolt, and NVMe. CPU config consists of the flexibility to allow/disable cores, together with E cores and P cores, individually.

Monitoring is included alongside fan management, whereas the instrument menu lets you management RGB and Safe Erase storage gadgets.

Motherboard Testing Supporters

Sabrent helps our storage testing with the Rocket 4 Plus.

TweakTown Intel Motherboard Take a look at System

Cinebench R23, Crossmark and AIDA64

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a long-standing render benchmark that has been closely relied upon by each Intel and AMD to spotlight their latest platforms throughout unveils. The benchmark has two assessments, a single-core workload using one thread or 1T and a multi-threaded check that makes use of all threads or nT of a examined CPU.

Z790 Strix ran alongside the Z790 Taichi for many of our testing. R23 pulled 2089 single thread and 29289 nT.

CrossMark

CrossMark gave us an general rating of 2545, a couple of factors beneath the Hero.

AIDA64

In AES, we picked up 224231.

SHA3 tapped in at 6487.

Reminiscence latency landed at 69.2, the best we’ve got seen amongst Z790 motherboards.

UL Procyon,3DMark, and CrossMark Benchmarks

UL Procyon Suite

The UL Procyon Workplace Productiveness Benchmark makes use of Microsoft Workplace apps to measure PC efficiency for workplace productiveness work.

The Picture Enhancing benchmark makes use of Adobe Lightroom to import, course of, and modify a collection of pictures. Within the second a part of the check, a number of edits and layer results are utilized to {a photograph} in Adobe Photoshop.

Our Procyon testing took off with Workplace first – the Strix pulled 10310 on this state of affairs. Picture proved fairly good as properly, scoring 11265.

3DMark

Beginning with CPU Profile, we see a rating of 1154 from the Z790 Strix. At sixteen threads, we end up with 10821.

Timespy gave us an general rating of 21771, about 100 factors shy of the very best we’ve got seen.

Pace Means gave us an general rating of 5899.

Ending up our time with 3DMark, the Strix pulled 4079 from our Storage Benchmark.

We monitor the drive temperature throughout the 3DMark Storage Benchmark to see how properly the built-in heatsinks are shifting into the longer term. On this state of affairs, the Strix held at 45c for a big a part of the check, peaking at 48c on a number of events.

Gaming Benchmarks and Closing Ideas

For gaming, we default to our Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark, testing 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. The Strix pulled incredible outcomes from this check, grabbing 201 FPS at 1080p, 160 FPS at 1440p, and 92 FPS at 4K.

Closing Ideas

The elevated price of a mid to top-tier motherboard has slowed plans for a lot of seeking to construct on LGA1700 and much more so on AM5. Stretching out the catalog of choices, ASUS has positioned the Strix E and even Strix F in a incredible place as lower-cost choices in comparison with Maximus Hero and Excessive.

Testing this board, we had strong returns with a high three lead to Cinebench R23 and CrossMark, a high 5 lead to UL Procyon, and a fast peak at 3DMark confirmed this board on par or higher than the Maximus Hero in Time Spy, Pace Means, and CPU Profile.

The built-in m.2 heatsinks did fairly properly with our Rocket 4 Plus, with peak temperature at 48c scoring 4079 in Storage Benchmark, a top-five outcome for this motherboard.

Connectivity on this board is incredible, lacking Thunderbolt 4 when in comparison with dearer boards, however it does supply the choice to make use of an AIC with the header discovered alongside the underside of the board. Additional, we’ve got WiFi6e, 2.5Gbe LAN, and loads of USB 3.2 for vital peripherals. General, very related specs to the Maximus Hero, however $200 cheaper on your pockets.

The pricing talked about beforehand is within the candy spot for a lot of wanting to construct their very own system. At $499.99, this motherboard is filled with connectivity and enlargement. Nonetheless, it has some strong competitors, with the primary being the AORUS Grasp, probably the greatest motherboards we’ve got examined this technology, strategically positioned by GIGABYTE within the $450-$500 value level.