Asus ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO EVA(ROG x Evangelion)Z690 ATX Gaming motherboard,DDR5,PCIe® 5.0,Wi-Fi 6E,5xM.2,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 front-panel connector with Quick Charge 4+ Support, 2xThunderbolt™ 4)

This board was just introduced in mid-2022 and I assume the price reflects its newness, as well as Evangelion's participation in its marketing.The visual impact is stunning - neon green and purple - again I believe due to the Evangelion contribution. We purchased this for one of our clients who insists having the "Newest and Greatest" in his equipment and we have been making him builds for a couple of years now.With PCIe 5.0, the M2's, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.2 2x2 there is not much more you can add to a board. Although, I'm not sure why they didn't give it a 10gb ethernet port so we will be adding a board into the build for that. It also comes with their ROG Hyper card for 4 NVMe M.2 Hyper card which supports the PCIe 5.0. We have used a similar card from another manufacturer and it was unbelievability fast - but not stable. When the unit was booted many times you had to reboot a couple times to get it recognized so eventually it had to be removed. Hopefully this won't have the same problem.We are still conferencing as to the case that this will install in and obviously it must be something special. I am recommending the AZZA Regis PC Case but it is obviously up to our client the ultimate decision. When we do build we'll add more info and photos to this review.

“I gotta tell you something. It was perfect. Perfect. Everything. Down to the last minute details.”-Homelander

It looks great in the overall build and car with everything without error.

This board looks great, and it's easy to setup. Love the three M2 HDD slots on board. My new PC build ran beautifully for about two weeks, and I was loving this board. Fast, runs very cool; it was everything I was hoping for.During install, though, I found that the primary DIMM slot was inoperable. I have two 16GB sticks, and installed them in the two recommended slots, but the computer wouldn't start, and the board was throwing code 55 (no memory installed). I moved the stick from the primary slot to another slot in a "not recommended" configuration, and the computer fired right up.Like I said, the computer ran beautifully for a few weeks, but one day out of nowhere it froze up and rebooted itself. During the reboot, it kept freezing; over and over and over. I could always get to the BIOS, but it continually froze during Windows boot. Only once did I make it to a login prompt after literally 4 hours of trying. I tried to do a Windows reset and reinstall multiple times, but the computer always froze and couldn't complete the operation.Took the computer to my trusted repair shop, and they had the same problems I did. When I mentioned the inop DIMM slot, first words out of the guy's mouth was "warranty this board. It's damaged." I contacted ASUS and got an RMA, shipped it back (my cost for 2-day air, because this is my primary work computer and it wanted it back ASAP, was $126. Ouch.Just got the board back today, two weeks later. ASUS was unable to repair the board, so they sent me a factory re-furbished replacement. Installed everything, and surprisingly got the same error on the primary DIMM slot as before (code 55), so like before I moved the two sticks to another pair of slots and everything booted up just fine. I was happy again. For two hours. Then it froze, attempted to reboot, and I was right back to the same failure cycle as before.I did a lot of troubleshooting, swapping out individual memory sticks to isolate them as a problem (no problems with the sticks). I then pulled my video card to see if it was causing problems (it's the only IDE component installed), and plugged an HDMI cable into the one HDMI port on the board, only to discover that there was no signal coming from that. Now the replacement board is exhibiting the same two physical problems as my first board. Looks like I got two lemons with the same defect.ASUS is escalating my case to the next layer of support, but who knows what the solution will be. Needless to say, I'm very frustrated.I want to love this board.Update: The replacement motherboard had the same problems as the first. I returned it and this time was told that there was damage to it caused by me. After charging me $130 and shipping back to me two weeks later, I put my PC back together and of course, had the exact same problems. Exasperated, I took the whole computer to a repair shop and asked them to figure out what's wrong. After extensive troubleshooting, they determined that not only was the motherboard bad (the third one), but my CPU was bad, too. I ended up buying a completely different board and new CPU, and processed a return for both the board and the CPU. Thankfully, Amazon honored my refund request, even though my purchase was four months ago.Avoid this board. I went 3 for 3 with bad ones.

The media could not be loaded. I really i have a pc gamer.. but i dream with a EVA PC, and whit this MB. I start my new project.and this MB is extraordinary and amazing.and came with a Asus Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card.

This is actually my first build. I wanted a motherboard that would support the latest and had room to upgrade. Fits the i9 129ks, m.2 SSDs, and the DDR5s. So far it’s the best PC I’ve ever used.

The goodLove the board, looks good. Was able to flash bios to support 14th gen i9 no problem. Can get xmp to run ram at 6000mt/s. Usually when making a new build, I purchase the newest chipsets etc, but I dont know, really liked the look of this board and picked it up. Always enjoyed Evangelion and this just hit the spot for me.The badAsus "optimized" and "ai overclocking" was total trash for me. I am fully willing to accept it may not have been the board and could be my cpu, but the board was trying to send way too much power into the cpu and had to fight with major instability issues. I tried intel xtu, I tried ai suite 3, I tried just plain bios ai overclock settings, no luck. Dug into bios changed the core clocks manually and limited the max voltage and a few other things, before I was able to get the system stable .Final thoughtsI think for the first time in 20+ years of building computers I finally lost the silicon lottery. However, this isnt the fault of the motherboard. Price is steep, but you already know that if your here. If you like Evangelion, this is a good board to consider, just know you may need to mess with bios a bit. Many posts and vids out there that can help guide you.