Review on ASUS Z690 PLUS Motherboard Thunderbolt Lighting by Micha Dbrowski ᠌

Name: ASUS Z690 PLUS Motherboard Thunderbolt Lighting
Item: ASUS Z690 PLUS Motherboard Thunderbolt Lighting
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

I am very happy with this purchase, I will advise everyone!

From the assortment presented under the LGA1700, I chose the ASUS product, at least because this company has proven itself for me. Well, in the reviews it showed nutritional stability clearly above competitors, albeit more expensive. I don’t use the built-in sound, I don’t use Wi-Fi either, but the external PCIe sound system easily got up, like the cooler with LGA1200 mounts. I assembled the system at 12600kf with an unattended CBO and am satisfied: it works stably, Windows 11 was installed without problems, the backlight is controlled by the board.

Pros

- Excellent food. - Reliability. - Fully compatible with previous socket CPU coolers. - Lots of PCIe 1x/4x slots (actually, who has not only a video card from internal devices) and M.2.

Cons

- Only 1 additional USB3 connector (another Type-C, the rest USB2). - On the power radiators would be a unifying heat pipe. - Most of the SATA ports end up in a not very convenient place after assembly (under the video card, if it is long enough).