MSI MEG Z690 ACE Gaming Motherboard (E-ATX, 12th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1700 Socket, DDR5, Thunderbolt 4, PCIe 5, Dual 2.5G LAN, M.2 Slots, Wi-Fi 6E)

First time using a high-end MOBO and it’s been amazing .
First off, specs of old PC versus new build:CPU before: 2600k AMDCPU after: I5 13th genRAM Before: 8GBs ofDDR4 at 3000 MHzRam after: 64 GBs Corsair DDR5 at 6600MHzDrive Before: 1X 1TB Samsung 860 EVO M.2 running at 2280 MB/SDrive(s) After: 3x 1TB WD SNF850X M.3 Gen 4 running at 7300 MB/SGPU before and after: RTX 3080 (PNY)MOBO before: B450 Auros Elite, circa 2017MOBO after: This one, silly.Holy heck, what a difference this thing has made for me! I actually replaced everything in my system aside from the GPU. I was running 7 year old components before this upgrade. I’d been able to run anything on ultra, pretty much, but only in 1080p. This new rig has been astonishing. Bear in mind that I am upgrading absolutely everything from my old system aside from the GPU, so my experience is biased in RAM, CPU, MOBO, THE GORGEOUS CASE (banana for scale), and M.2s.I absolutely love this MOBO. Double LAN ports, very fast wifi card otherwise. I have paid for like 10 bajillion MBS/s per femtosecond internet for so long, now. I had never seen close to those advertised speeds but it turns out my devices were what were really holding me back. I thought Steam had a download cap of like 2MB/s, but nope. I’ve seen DLs go at 30MBs/s. With torrents it’s sometimes been faster.I like that everything is black and gold. The pic I attached is my new rig. It still needs 5 more fans and some more pixel vomit. You can’t really see any of the gold at all, but still, not having a garish lighted logo screaming “AUROS 15,000,000,000 AORUS AORUS AORUS” in orange and yellow, even when the case is unplugged and buried 27 feet underground, when you want your rig to be, you know, not orange, is really nice. They are notoriously difficult to address. Not this guy. No lights, no problem. If you went with an AIO watercooler instead of that massive cube of aluminum and fans that I have, you could see the gold. The glass on my case is also tinted so it makes a difference. It’s a Lian Li Dynamic XL, if you’re curious.I should say that I got this board for $250 in q4 2023. Prices seem to fluctuate. Still, cheapest flagship, even if it was the flagship 2 years ago. I can’t justify paying $1000 for the best MOBO in all of existence at the current moment.I am confident, after many hours of research and deliberation, that my new rig is fairly future proof, if not in specs then in gameability. Everything runs at well over 60FPS on ultra settings in 4k. AMD Freesync Premium makes a difference, too. Even in VR, it’s butter smooth. At least for my headset (old Samsung odyssey), that is.It’s sad that I’m now 35 years old, literally middle-aged, and only now have a rig that sits among the greats. I have about 1/3 the interest in videogames as I did as a teen. Wish I could give old me the best while he could appreciate it fully. That’s depressing lol so hey just go ahead and use this MOBO and consider upgrading your shtuff lol

Awesome Mobo with a lot of features
This is a great motherboard, is loaded with NVMe storage options. I am running 3 Samsung 980 Pro NVME’s in it, all at x4 and a 3080 ti running at x16 and everything is PCIE 4.0, but the first x16 slot can support PCIE 5.0. The only thing I was a little concerned about is that I bought a ‘new’ motherboard, but when it arrived it was in a weird box, and there was no tape on the motherboard box to seal it, and some of the plastic protection on the motherboard had fingerprints and dirt under it, so it’s like it was used but returned, I’m not sure but it works.

Beast of a board, the black and gold work so well together.There are so many good things about this motherboard, ample fan headers, rgb headers, ability to add 5 m.2s very strong VRM and many other great features.Purchased this because of the color scheme, as well as the added value from so many features.Definitely would recommend this to someone who wants a premium motherboard that is of a very high quality.Have always owned Asus boards but this one outshone all the boards from Asus by a long shot, highly recommended you wont regret it.

No funcionó con un 14900k le actualize el BIOS pero era muy inestable el sistema y tenía bsod constantes me cambié a una Asus Maximus Hero y sin ningún problema hasta ahorita.