Asus Prime Z690M-PLUS D4 Desktop Motherboard - Intel Chipset - Socket LGA-1700 - Intel Optane Memory Ready - Micro ATX

the option to install certain needed drivers through armour crate was nice, and software works well. board has good placement of fan headers. rx 6900 xt and arctic freezer had a very close fit in my particular micro atx case. leaving only less to a mm to spare if not flush to the vrm heatsink. it juuust fit but it works great and am satisfied.

The ASUS PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4 mATX motherboards is a sweet little board. It was time to upgrade my old ROG STRIX Z270G GAMING/i7-7700K system, and my shortlist of boards were the PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4 and the ROG STRIX Z690-G GAMING WIFI. With the current DDR5 availability and pricing, I settled on the PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4 with i7-12700K and Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) 3600 MHz DDR4 CL16 RAM. Installed Windows 10 in no time on my new WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 Gen4 x4 NVMe SSD with zero issues except, as this is a new platform windows could not install the the required drivers for all the devices automatically, but as soon as you get to your desktop, the motherboard informs you that the Motherboard bios contains an ethernet driver which will install, allow you to go online and download all necessary drivers from the ASUS site. AT the moment I am running everything at stock speeds and the benchmarks and stress tests are impressive. Over all I'm happy with my decision to purchase the The ASUS PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4, it has everything I need and performs well.