With a new motherboard in hand, one of your first tasks is to install your CPU and apply thermal paste. To make this process easy and smooth, we’re debuting the ROG RG-07 Performance Thermal Paste Kit alongside our latest Z790 motherboards.

As a WiFi 7 motherboard, the ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi II will make waves with its support for the latest wireless standard alone. But that’s far from the only upgrade offered by the ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi II. We’ve boosted its M.2 slot count up to five, and each of those slots has robust cooling with a built-in heatsink. The rear I/O selection now includes a total of 12 USB ports to ensure that you have the connectivity that you need. And we’ve bolstered the VRM cooling solution with massive heatsinks and high-conductivity thermal pads. ROG STRIX Z790-A GAMING WIFI IIHyper M.2_2 slot (Key M) via ROG Hyper M.2 card, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (suppports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)*** Providing greater electrostatic protection than the industry standard, ESD guards cover the USB, audio, and LAN ports.

To make it even easier for you to take advantage of these cutting-edge drives, we’re offering onboard PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots on more Z790 boards than ever before. The ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero awaits if you’re in need of one of these high-performance M.2 slots. Fortunately, the latest integrated power components can handle higher currents than the devices of yesteryear, making it possible to implement a simple circuit topology that isn't hamstrung by the processing lag of phase-doublers. That's why the ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore utilizes teamed power stages to deliver higher burst current per phase, while maintaining the thermal performance of phase-doubled designs. Intel’s DMI (Direct Media Interface) is the interconnect between the CPU and the chipset. Both Z790 and B760 chipsets support DMI 4.0, but B760 halves the number of lanes (and thus the bandwidth) available for I/O connections. This is why the Z790 chipset supports a higher number of I/O connectivity. Integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 support provides data transfer performance with a design data rate of up to 10 Gb/s.Overall, the Z790 chipset is a relatively minor update of the Z690 platform, and thus major differences are non-existent. All of the changes are focused on either expanding connectivity or adding onboard component installation options. In fact, unlike AMD’s Zen 4 architecture that it is (eventually) designed to compete against, Raptor Lake continues support for DDR4 as Z690 does. The Armoury Crate app gives you a one-stop location for monitoring your hardware, installing updates, controlling your Aura Sync RGB LED lighting effects, and much more. For the latest version of Armoury Crate, we’re making it even more convenient to fine-tune your PC experience. Users of our latest ROG Maximus and ROG Strix boards will be able to access Sonic Studio through Armoury Crate to adjust audio controls, tailor acoustics through a graphic EQ, and map different audio streams to different outputs. As of the time of writing, Intel has yet to release an H710 chipset. This is somewhat surprising, since typically the H*10 chipset will release alongside the launch of same-generation non-K CPUs, at the same time as B*60 and H*70. For example, both the H610, B660, and H670 chipsets released in January of 2022, the same time 12th-gen units like the Core i3-12100 and Core i5-12400 launched.