Asus ProArt Z690-CREATOR WIFI Desktop Motherboard - Intel Z690 Chipset - Socket LGA-1700 - Intel Optane Memory Ready - ATX - Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 Processor Supported - 128 GB DDR5 SDRAM Maximum R

This is an absolutely killer board. From thunderbolt 4 with DisplayPort input, 10GBe, plenty of USB ports, led control, wifi 6 etc... It also has a bunch of pci slots, DDR5 memory and room for 3 nvme ssd drives. Bottom line: the board takes all the good things you want and mixes it into what i consider to be the best board money can buy at the moment.

Very nice design... solid, understated, feature-rich and 100 percent functional out of the box. Really good value for the money with 10GbE built-in. I'm still always swapping out the Intel ILM for a Contact Frame to drastically improve thermals which gives you both quieter AIO operation AND higher performance when you're running the system at extended demanding levels. I'll ALWAYS be disappointed in the lack of CPU PICe lanes... but that's the downside of junior level AM5 and LGA1700 CPU's. You HAVE PCIe slots, but you can't even use them after you have a graphics card mounted and one single NVMe, maybe two of those IF the chipset is also giving you some "shared" PCIe lanes as well.