ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 FORMULA

Motherboard Specification

Processor Support

Intel® Socket LGA1700 for Intel® Core™ 14th & 13th Gen Processors, Intel® Core™ 12th Gen, Pentium® Gold, and Celeron® Processors*

Supports Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0**

Chipset

Intel® Z790 Chipset

Memory Support

4 x DIMM slots, max. 192GB, DDR5 8000+(OC)/7800(OC)/7600(OC)/7400(OC)/7200(OC)/7000(OC)/6800(OC)/6600(OC)/6400(OC)/6200(OC)/6000(OC)/5800(OC)/5600/5400/5200/5000/4800 Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory*

Dual channel memory architecture

Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory module

ASUS Enhanced Memory Profile II (AEMP II)

Supports DIMM Flex

Graphics Ports

1 x HDMI™ port**

2 x Intel® Thunderbolt™ 4 ports (USB Type-C®) support DisplayPort and Thunderbolt™ video outputs***

Expansion Slots

Intel® Core™ Processors (14th & 13th & 12th Gen)*

2 x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots (supports x16 or x8/x8 modes)**

Intel® Z790 Chipset

1 x PCIe 4.0 x4 slot

Storage

Supports 5 x M.2 slots and 4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*

Intel® CoreTM Processors (14th & 13th & 12th Gen)

M.2_1 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 5.0 x4 mode)**

M.2_2 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)

Intel® Z790 Chipset

M.2_3 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)

M.2_4 slot (Key M), type 2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)

M.2_5 slot (Key M), type 2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)

4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports

Ethernet

1 x Realtek 5Gb Ethernet

ASUS LANGuard

Wireless & Bluetooth

Intel® Wi-Fi 7*

2x2 Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)**

Supports 2.4/5/6GHz frequency band***

Support Wi-Fi 7 320MHz bandwidth, up to 5.76Gbps transfer rate.

Bluetooth® v5.4****

USB

Rear USB (Total 12 ports)

2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 ports (2 x USB Type-C®)

6 x USB 10Gbps ports (5 x Type-A + 1 x USB Type-C®)

4 x USB 5Gbps ports (4 x Type-A)

Front USB (Total 9 ports)

1 x USB 20Gbps connector (supports USB Type-C® with up to 60W PD/QC4+)

2 x USB 5Gbps headers support 4 additional USB 5Gbps ports

2 x USB 2.0 headers support 4 additional USB 2.0 ports

Audio

ROG SupremeFX 7.1 Surround Sound High Definition Audio CODEC ALC4082

Impedance sense for front and rear headphone outputs

Supports: Jack-detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel MIC Jack-retasking

High quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output and 110 dB SNR recording input

Supports up to 32-Bit/384 kHz playback on front panel

Internal I/O Connectors

Fan and Cooling Related

1 x 4-pin CPU Fan header

1 x 4-pin CPU OPT Fan header

1 x 4-pin AIO Pump header

4 x 4-pin Chassis Fan headers

1 x W_PUMP+ header

1 x 2-pin Water In header

1 x 2-pin Water Out header

1 x 3-pin Water Flow header

Power Related

1 x 24-pin main power connector

2 x 8-pin +12V power connectors

1 x 8-pin PCIe power connector

Storage Related

5 x M.2 slots (Key M)

4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports

USB

1 x USB 20Gbps connector (supports USB Type-C®)

2 x USB 5Gbps headers support 4 additional USB 5Gbps ports

2 x USB 2.0 headers support 4 additional USB 2.0 ports

Back Panel I/O Ports

2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 USB Type-C® ports

6 x USB 10Gbps ports (5 x Type-A + 1 x USB Type-C®)

4 x USB 5Gbps ports (4 x Type-A)

1 x HDMI™ port

1 x Wi-Fi module

1 x Realtek 5Gb Ethernet port

5 x Gold-plated audio jacks

1 x Optical S/PDIF out port

1 x BIOS FlashBack™ button

1 x Clear CMOS button

Form Factor

ATX Form Factor

12 inch x 9.6 inch (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm)

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