Review on ASUS Z690M Plus D4 Motherboard Thunderbolt by Petar Vachkov

Name: ASUS Z690M Plus D4 Motherboard Thunderbolt
Item: ASUS Z690M Plus D4 Motherboard Thunderbolt
Rating: 5

July 17, 2023

The best I ever used, recommend it to everybody.

I installed an ssd with a 2mm high plate radiator in the first slot, it does not go beyond the m2 dimensions and does not interfere with anything.
I installed it in the third slot with an ssd with a BeCool heatsink, but for this I had to remove the latch from the second 16x pci-e 4.0 connector (which I don’t use now).
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Pros

Started with cpu i5-12490F without problems. There are 3 m2 slots, I used 2. I installed Intel 9260NGW in the WiFi slot. Chipset with a margin for the future. The first 16x pci-e supports PCI-E 5.0.

Cons

The m2 slots are very densely spaced, making it difficult to fit BeCool's large m2 heatsink. In the first slot, the latch from the cpu cooler and the latch from the 16x pci-e 5.0 interfere with the radiator. In the second slot, the WiFi module interferes with the bottom, and there is also a pci-e latch on the side. In the third slot, the latch of the second 16x pci-e 4.0 interferes.