ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO 13th & 12th Gen Motherboard

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

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

* Refer to www.asus.com for the CPU support list.

* Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 support depends on the CPU type. 

DDR5 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/ 4800MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory

* 1 x HDMI® port**

* 2 x Intel® Thunderbolt™ 4 ports (USB Type-C®) support DisplayPort 1.4 and Thunderbolt™ video outputs***

* Support 4K@60Hz as specified in HDMI 2.1. 

* VGA resolution support depends on processors' or graphic cards' resolution.

Intel® 13th & 12th Gen Processors*

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

Intel® Z790 Chipset

1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 slot (supports x4, x4/x4 modes)

Intel® 13th & 12th Gen Processors*

M.2_1 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode.)

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

Intel® Z790 Chipset**

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

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

Hyper M.2_1 slot (Key M) via ROG Hyper M.2 card, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)**

Hyper M.2_2 slot (Key M) via ROG Hyper M.2 card, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)***

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 connector

1 x 6-pin PCIe Power connector

Storage related 

3 x M.2 slots (Key M) 

6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports

USB 

1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 connector (supports USB Type-C®   ) 

2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 headers support additional 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports

2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports

Miscellaneous

3 x Addressable Gen 2 headers

1 x AURA RGB header

1 x FlexKey button 

1 x Front Panel Audio header (AAFP)

1 x Start button

1 x ReTry button

1 x 10-1 pin System Panel header

1 x Thermal Sensor header

1 x CPU Over Voltage jumper

1 x Alternative PCIe Mode switch

2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 USB Type-C® ports

6 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (5 x Type-A + 1 x USB Type-C®)

4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (4 x Type-A)

Extreme OC Kit

- FlexKey button

- Retry button

- Start button

Extreme Engine Digi+

- 10K Black Metallic Capacitors

- MicroFine Alloy Choke

ASUS Q-Design 

- M.2 Q-Latch

- PCIe Slot Q-Release

- Q-Code

- Q-Connector

- Q-DIMM

- Q-LED (CPU [red], DRAM [yellow], VGA [white], Boot Device [yellow green])

- Q-Slot

ASUS Thermal Solution

- M.2 heatsink backplate

- M.2 heatsink

- Steel backplate

- VRM heatsink design

ASUS EZ DIY

- BIOS FlashBack™ button

- Clear CMOS button

- CPU Socket lever protector

- ProCool II

- Pre-mounted I/O shield

- SafeSlot

- SafeDIMM

AURA Sync

- AURA RGB header(s)

- Addressable Gen 2 header(s)

Front Panel USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 with Quick Charge 4+ Support

- Support: up to 60W charging*

- Output: 5/9/15/20V max. 3A, PPS:3.3–21V max. 3A

- Compatible with PD3.0 and PPS