Very good motherboard at a very good price. It may be the cheapest Z790 you can get. It has very good thermal behavior. While its VRM coolers have a low profile, so you won't have any problems even with large coolers for the processor. The disadvantage is that it has a BIOS with few options and relatively difficult to understand. It also offers very few options for RAM timing, as it only allows you to connect it with XMP and does not provide any "safer" option. And it is somewhat limited in how much it can increase the OC speeds for the memory. As a product, it deserves a solid 4 stars. However, at this price, it's not easy to find a Z790, so it's still a best buy.
Unfortunately, from the beginning, it gave me a problem with the memory, specifically with the dual channel. After investigation and visiting a computer store with a technical department, they said that some pins were slightly "bent," meaning they had come out of place, not much but enough to cause these problems with the dual channel, which used to work for me (but not with XMP, only if I set my own slightly lower values (in terms of performance), like latency at 42 instead of 39, or when I set the MHz to 4800 instead of 6000. But even though it worked fine with these values, on the next startup of the computer, it could give me a black screen. Now I don't know if it's my fault or if the pins were already problematic. During installation, maybe I let the processor fall into the socket from a slightly higher height than it should have. But I have done it in the past... I don't know if these new motherboards have more sensitive pins or if I just got a defective model. And anyway, I can't prove that it wasn't my fault, so in the end, I had to buy another motherboard, unfortunately, which works fine (a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus gaming X AX, but it cost me 300 euros. I just couldn't risk buying another potentially defective motherboard. In fact, I had them put the CPU in the motherboard and the motherboard in the case at the store where I bought it, so that if it had a defect later, I could return it. It would mean that either the piece was defective or that the technicians at the store did a poor installation. Whereas in the case of this Asrock one, I can't prove that this specific piece was faulty and ask for a replacement because I'm not 100% sure either. I've always built my PCs myself every year and never had any problems. Maybe I was just unlucky.
