ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO

9.5 out of 10

The new Q-Release is a new eject mechanism for ASUS motherboards with graphics card PCIe slots. It “unlocks the first PCIe slot’s security latch with one tap, greatly simplifying the process of detaching a PCIe card.”

igor's LAB Recommended buy 4.7/5

The Asus Maximus Z790 Hero has everything a gamer's and overclocker's heart desires. [...] For enthusiasts and gamers in the high-end segment, the Z790 Hero should be at the top of the list of motherboard options.

Editor's Choice

If that price is no problem, you have an ultimate board: EC.

Best of 2022 Gold

The combination of an excellent power supply, an extremely extensive feature set including niche features such as Thunderbolt, but above all the fact that we have been working primarily with Hero boards for years for their stability and headache-free bios and software features.

Recommended

This product is suitable for those that live and breathe the ASUS ROG DNA and want nothing but the best...

A personal favourite of ours

The ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero is a beautiful board...

Bronze Pokdeward

Here’s a feature that I felt like is an absolute life-saver and definitely should be a standard in future motherboards regardless of price – the Q-Latch and Q-Release. God knows how many times I dropped that tiny M.2 screws or even tried so hard shoving a stick just to push that PCIe slot release which is occupied by the sheer girth of the GPU itself… the RTX 4090 now comes with 4-slots as virtually the standard, mind you.

Gold

excellent three-way connectivity.

Platinum

Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero is a display of power and high-quality components for Raptor Lake, but at a higher price than the previous generation with few changes.

Recommended product

Great performance and leave nothing to chance

Best Performance

This motherboard designed for overclockers as well as for users at the Hi End level, whether it is a gamer or a modder looking for a premium motherboard to use. It is featured in the power supply sector that provides impressive performance and can support Intel's top-level CPUs. Easy to use tuning Easy overclocking, stable, excellent stability throughout use.

Best Performance

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO, the top-of-the-line motherboard in the ROG family that focuses on overclocking today, performs very well by using the latest Intel 13 Gen CPUs in use. Overclocking type, CPU surpasses 6Ghz comfortably, bus RAM DDR5 7200Mhz

Editor's Choice

Like the Maximus models, the latest Z790 Hero allows us to easily overclock our Core i9-13900K processor and get even higher performance.

Recommends

The RAM support for ROG Z790 Maximus Hero should be evaluated separately. Because the new Hero pushes the limits in this regard.

Editor's choice

The equipment is very rich, there is a sufficient number of both PCIe and M.2 slots, but here the AMD platform is still a bit more advanced compared to Intel. The audio unit is excellent, and we can blame Asus for failing to include a more powerful LAN controller as a competitor.

Recommends

Ultimately, although Asus only slightly upgraded last year's model, it was enough to create one of the best boards for Intel's current processors.