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ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming mini-ITX Motherboard - WiFi 6E, PCIe 5.0, DDR5, Thunderbolt 4, M.2

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CPU Socket LGA 1700
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RAM Memory Technology DDR5
Compatible Processors intel celeron
Chipset Type Intel Z690
Memory Clock Speed 2133
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Model Name ROG STRIX Z690-I GAMING WIFI
Graphics Card Interface PCI Express

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  • Intel LGA 1700 socket: Ready for 12th Gen Intel Core processors, support PCIe 5.0,DDR5 and out of box Windows 11 ready
  • AI Motherboard : AI Overclocking, AI cooling, AI networking(GameFirst VI) and AI noise cancellation
  • Robust Power Solution: 10plus1 power stages with ProCool II power connector, high-quality alloy chokes and durable capacitors to support multi-core processors
  • Optimized Thermal Design: VRM heatsink, triple decker M.2 heatsink, hybrid fan headers and Fan Xpert 4 utility
  • High-performance Gaming Networking: On-board WiFi 6E and Intel 2.5 Gb Ethernet with ASUS LANGuard
  • Best Gaming Connectivity: Supports HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4 output,and featuring 2xM.2 and USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C, Front panel USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C connectors and ITX expansion card(features 4 SATA ports, Front Panel headers, Front Speaker header and one ARGB port)
  • PC DIY Friendly: SafeDIMM, PCIe 5.0 Safeslot, Q-LED, M.2 Q-Latch, CPU socket lever protector, Pre-mount I/O shield, BIOS FlashBack, Clr CMOS button and FlexKey (Reset, Aura on/off, Direct key)

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ASUS ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WiFi 6E is the perfect backbone for gamers who pursue ultimate performance out of Intel 12th Gen CPU mini-ITX PC build. With boosted power delivery and innovative cooling utilizing a skived-fin design, ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WiFi 6E is the perfect compact platform for your next gaming battle station.

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4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5
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Customers are satisfied with the sturdiness of the motherboard. However, some complain about the size and appearance. They say the dimensions are non-standard and the heatsinks are tiny. They also dislike the bend resistance and appearance of the board. Opinions are mixed on quality, ease of installation, performance, and value.

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20 customers mention "Sturdiness"14 positive6 negative

Customers like the sturdiness of the motherboard. They say it's rock solid, high quality, and a solid choice for an itx build. Some mention that it looks great and uses good components.

"...I have a 14700K CPU which has worked flawlessly since purchase. No crashes, no issues. I've updated BIOS without issue...." Read more

"...Has been rock solid since boot up the first time with no issues at all...." Read more

"...and I get a hardware error in the Windows reliability monitor...." Read more

"This board is fantastic, incredible build quality, bios is very easy to navigate through and the sale price isn’t through the roof expensive..." Read more

29 customers mention "Performance"13 positive16 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the motherboard. Some mention that it works well so far, while others say that it didn't work at all, had no lights, and none of their fans would work. Some customers also reported issues with getting both NVME drives working and XMP on this board did not work.

"...4.0 but we got this board specifically for testing 5.0 SSDs and it doesn't work. Returned the first and got a second. Same deal...." Read more

"...No crashes, no issues. I've updated BIOS without issue. I am also using a 10 Gig ethernet card in one of the M.2 slots that is working perfectly...." Read more

"...Overall I rated this as 1 star due to it's massive incompatibility with most coolers which significantly limits this boards use in mini builds..." Read more

"...but you also need it for the base connectors.- Overall it's fine to boot...." Read more

28 customers mention "Quality"13 positive15 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the motherboard. Some mention it's fantastic, superb, and well worth it, while others say it'll disappoint you and has many issues.

"This board is fantastic, incredible build quality, bios is very easy to navigate through and the sale price isn’t through the roof expensive..." Read more

"...First of all, it is simply too complex to be reliable. The stacked parts are not clever or anything like that, it is simply a terrible idea...." Read more

"Pros:Great IO, nice accessibility with the small addon board for more motherboard connections...." Read more

"...These are elementary mistakes and they are asking $433 for this mobo...." Read more

12 customers mention "Value"5 positive7 negative

Customers are mixed about the value of the motherboard. Some mention it's well worth the cost, while others say the price is a little overpriced.

"...Beefy and premium VRM/M.2 Heatsink design that looks and feels very ROG strix-y yet understated...." Read more

"...Overall its a good board, though a bit on the pricey side." Read more

"...It's an excellent price-performance buy...." Read more

"...It is a bit on the pricier side and is the most expensive of all the Z790i ITX boards." Read more

9 customers mention "Ease of installation"4 positive5 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the ease of installation of the motherboard. Some mention that it was easy to install after the BIOS update, while others say that it's completely impossible to install and has to be returned. Some customers also report that the board is easy to brick and that the Armory Crate does not install the missing drivers.

"...does not even have all the drivers, and Armory Crate does not install the missing ones, specifically the main chipset and serial io device drivers,..." Read more

"...Installation was easy as I used a Hyte Revolt 3 and after BIOS update everything was a go...." Read more

"...This makes it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to source large air cooling solutions that are compatible with this configuration...." Read more

"...in order to get it to boot with XMP settings, but the BIOS update procedure is very easy on this board, so no problems there...." Read more

15 customers mention "Size"2 positive13 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the size of the motherboard. They mention that the dimensions are non-standard, and the coolers do not fit. Additionally, the heat sinks are tiny and the CPU cooler clearance is very narrow.

"...1. The stacked NVMe is a bit cumbersome and very tall...." Read more

"...ssd installs fine, but for the upper ssd there is no space for the supplied thermal pad because the top surface of the ic’s on the ssd are too close..." Read more

"...The heatsinks are tall so double check your cooler fitment...." Read more

"...However, it's really irresponsible on ASUS' part to make the dimensions so non-standard...." Read more

7 customers mention "Appearance"0 positive7 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the appearance of the motherboard. They mention that it has a terrible layout, a fatal design flaw, and cluttered design. Some say that the stacked parts are not clever and are cumbersome.

"...he designed this thing, but this thing is not clever, it is a terrible board design that no one without extensive experience should even consider..." Read more

"...1. The stacked NVMe is a bit cumbersome and very tall...." Read more

"Terrible layout, M.2 sandwich just makes things complicated...." Read more

"...Make sure you don't need to upgrade anything before installing. Very cluttered." Read more

3 customers mention "Bend resistance"0 positive3 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the bend resistance of the motherboard. They mention that it bends when installing the heat sink, and that it causes SSDs to bend.

"If using a single sided m.2 drive, it will bend when installing the heat sink...." Read more

"...an odd choice, the thermal pads included are much too thick and cause SSDs to bend...." Read more

"...the socket cover back on and grazed the corner of the socket, bending a couple of pins...." Read more

Check your dimensions! This board is not standard
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Check your dimensions! This board is not standard
I really wanted to live this board, it looks great and uses good components. However, it's really irresponsible on ASUS' part to make the dimensions so non-standard.I decided to return the board initially when I realized that my Noctua NH-U12A won't fit. Then I saw some reports that removing the SSD top heatsink may help. Barely, but it did. Such a simple thing to adjust dimensions of to allow for some of the most popular coolers- an SSD heatsink. Why would they make it more restrictive than needed?So I cancelled my return and started the build, only to discover more inconsitencies. RAM - if it's just a couple mm thicker than just a bare stick, then the SSD ribbon starts pushing on it, bending it to the side in my case. I thought maybe that's ok. But then, someone at ASUS decided that it's ok to extend the casing on the back of the board 5mm beyond the board itself. You know, it's an ITX standard for a reason - it standardizes the dimensions, why would you choose to willy-nilly violate them like that? Now the board is completely impossible to install and I have to start the return process again.Very disappointed, whilebI can't really give it a 1 star rating, because my issues may not apply to everyone. Still, looks like my next board will be from some other brand.
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Peter S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great motherboard with tons of I/O
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
Asus has had it's fair share of drama but this board is working well for me. I have a 14700K CPU which has worked flawlessly since purchase. No crashes, no issues. I've updated BIOS without issue. I am also using a 10 Gig ethernet card in one of the M.2 slots that is working perfectly. Usually that type of obscure hardware causes issues, but it just worked.
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Jon L. Jacobi
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden switch for PCIe 5.0 m.2
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023
Style: Z790|WiFi 6E|ROG STRIX HIVEVerified Purchase
I wanted to love this motherboard, and I did. Right up until I inserted a Gigabyte Aorus PCIE5 10000, PCIe 5.0 SSD and got 3.0 speeds. Changing a BIOS bifurcation setting allows 4.0 but we got this board specifically for testing 5.0 SSDs and it doesn't work. Returned the first and got a second. Same deal.

I've had to amend this review because I finally got to a top-level tech who told me about a switch on the riser board with the front panel connections that comes set to PCIe 3.0. That needs to be set to Auto to provide PCIe 5.0.

Previously, three interactions with tech support mentioned nothing about this switch and one told me to return the board. I feel bad about that but...

Now I love the board. It's compact, has Thunderbolt 4 and USB 3.2x2 (20GBps) on board and is perfect for our testing.
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MichaelJ
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice board, works well so far, some odd choices, Z height might be a problem for some SFF cases
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
Style: Z790|WiFi 6E|ROG STRIX HIVEVerified Purchase
Overall I'm pleased with this purchase. I'm running a 13600k , 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5, and a Samsung 1TB 980 NVMe SSD. Has been rock solid since boot up the first time with no issues at all. I'm running in XMPP mode also with no issues and letting the UEFI BIOS handle any auto overclocking at the moment, though I have not really pushed it super hard even though I could.

Here are a few things to know:
- The Z height on this board could be a problem for some. From encroaching into areas in SFF cases to issues with super large fan coolers or water blocks, the CPU socket it like building on a lot where a previously imploded building was in a skyscraper city. Doable, but also can be limiting.
- Part of that Z height issue is the double stacked NVMe slots create a lot of height on a side of the board that sometimes doesn't have any. The manual is also not clear about which slots are PCI 3 and 4.
- The same for the 'optional' daughter card on the front for extra USB headers, etc. but you also need it for the base connectors.
- Overall it's fine to boot. A little annoying that every time I update the UEFI it seems to reset a lot of parameters (especially ones related to the pump/fan headers) wish I wish it didn't do.

I haven't had a reason to test ThunderBolt yet, but everything else works as expected so far. Would have liked to have seen a slightly cheaper version maybe without the exterior audio/USB module since I don't use that for much in my present configuration so it's largely a waste.

Overall its a good board, though a bit on the pricey side.
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Chris
1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BY THIS BOARD!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2023
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
I have never written one of these before, that is how bad this board is. I knew this thing would be terrible just looking at the pictures, but it was the only one Amazon had available in the time frame I needed it. There are multiple levels of bad with this garbage. Im just now finding out how bad it is because it would appear the unit I received came with a dead bios battery out of the box.

First of all, it is simply too complex to be reliable. The stacked parts are not clever or anything like that, it is simply a terrible idea. Second M.2 connected by a ribbon? That is a terrible idea. Im sure they have some dumb reasoning for it, but the second slot should have been on the back. My guess is the ribbon cable was a lazy answer to getting a second slot on the board. The secondary daughter board for SATA is also A TERRIBLE idea, like, if it added an EXTRA set of 4, ok, but I dont see anyone else needing to do it that way.

Second, Ive had weird bios/config issues from the start. It appears that the ASUS website does not even have all the drivers, and Armory Crate does not install the missing ones, specifically the main chipset and serial io device drivers, I had to get them off the gigabyte site.

Lastly, this issues with the bios battery. You have to disassemble most of the board to get to it, then, once you get to it, you have to take additional pieces off to get to the connector.

Im sure some idiot engineer thought he was really clever when he designed this thing, but this thing is not clever, it is a terrible board design that no one without extensive experience should even consider buying, and even if that is you, the frustration is not worth it, buy the MSI Z690i Unify. If ASUS customer service reads this, no, im not interested in in talking to product support or an RMA, the board isnt broken, its is a fundamentally flawed product
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great itx solution
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2023
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
This board is fantastic, incredible build quality, bios is very easy to navigate through and the sale price isn’t through the roof expensive compared to other itx boards in this class. HOWEVER there are two things that may make this a tough sell for others looking to make this purchase.

1. The stacked NVMe is a bit cumbersome and very tall. This makes it incredibly difficult, if not impossible to source large air cooling solutions that are compatible with this configuration. The Noctua u9s fits but just barely.

2. My board did not include the supporting pads to prevent the NVMe pcb from bending after the heatsink is installed. Thankfully I had an old Asus board that had a couple left over but it’s important to note that you may or may not receive pads with this board.

Other than that, this board is fantastic and HIGHLY recommended. Buy with confidence my friends.
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Susana Zamudio
5.0 out of 5 stars Diseño hermoso y de muy buena calidad
Reviewed in Mexico on May 1, 2024
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
excelente calidad, siempre Asus a sido de lo mejor, muy buenos diseños que hacen que tu set up se vea muy genial y moderno.
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Erik
5.0 out of 5 stars bent cpu pin
Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2024
Style: Z790|WiFi 6E|ROG STRIX HIVEVerified Purchase
its a very expensive board, and i thought i would save money with a warehouse deal, but the mobo cpu socket had a bent pin.
the mobo would have been really sweat, the layout was great and the stacking of the 2 nvme drives was done right.
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Aleks malyhin
5.0 out of 5 stars is a very good but a bit to much
Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2023
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
this motherboard is packing some punch but its very crammed. my cpu cooler is barely fitting in it the motherboard but at least its there and cooling. but the thing is that there is to much stuff going on this board, the small little board with the sata cables is a nice addition but if i would design this board i would keep things simple and kept one or two sata connector and the front panel connector and that its. this is manly for asus to read this is that from a standard user point of view that when i go for itx size i am expecting to lose some features because i am going for size and not overpacked of features. but i saw a lot of bad reviews for the board and there were in principle compatibility problem and size the first thing to do is update the bios for the latest and update intel ME with all the over motherboard drivers and i didn't get any problem for now. i will come back if encounter some for of problem in about 3 months or sooner if something happens but i hope nothing happen and everything to work well. the cooler i used was the NH-U9S. it fits well but you will lack cooling power if you don't go with water cooling. so my suggestion will be to not go super high end as a cpu and keep it around the midrange and avoid the K version of cpu's or you will need to underclock it to make some what cool. if you have some question i will be happy to answer them.

Update: the motherboard is working perfectly fine but you really need to do the bios updates cuz it has few bugs at the 2305 bios like when I shut it down and start it back up it stuck on boot and vga but I just hold the power button and my pc shuts down and start back up and everything is fine. For now I didn't have any other problems. The only other thing is not very critical is that when I turn of turbo the core voltage drops down in a very scary zone of 1.06 volts but the pc works fine and never had a single crash except of one time because of the gpu drivers having a bug but after updating everything was fine.

update; with the light on the motherboard it just was the adapter cable from hdmi to dvi now i have display port and everything is good
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Stark
5.0 out of 5 stars Great MB with minor issues.
Reviewed in Singapore on September 11, 2023
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
Issue 1: will bend SSD.
Issue 2: not compatible with some AIOs. I have to literally cut a tiny part of my pump to put it in…
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Stark
5.0 out of 5 stars Great MB with minor issues.
Reviewed in Singapore on September 11, 2023
Issue 1: will bend SSD.
Issue 2: not compatible with some AIOs. I have to literally cut a tiny part of my pump to put it in…
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4.0 out of 5 stars Can't fit a big cooler
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2023
Style: Z690|WiFi 6EVerified Purchase
Initially, I planned to install a Phantom Spirit 120SE cooler, however this board isn't big enough. For me, this is the sole drawback.
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