Amazon.com: Customer reviews: ASUS TUF Z390-Plus Gaming (Wi-Fi) LGA1151 (Intel 8th and 9th Gen) DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 Z390 ATX Motherboard 802.11ac Wi-Fi USB 3.1 Gen2

An excellent motherboard for overclocking

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

Using this motherboard to overclock an i7-9700k to 5.1 GHz 24/7 OC with a 3080 Ti, with RAM at 3600 MHz. Craftsmanship is excellent, so far, and I was very pleased with how easy it was to set up!

Though using PC part picker indicated that the mobo may ship with an outdated bios for my cpu, I can confirm today that my motherboard shipped with a bios version released sometime in 2021 and it booted without a hitch and no reason to update the bios (and in fact if its not required for operation - it's recommended heavily against in the user manual, by the manufacturers).

The bios is very detailed and well organized - although if you're going to overclock on it - do yourself a favor and do not use the auto-OC wizard on here - better off doing it manually. Very easy to set up fan curves for all chassis fans and AIO fans/pump, and easily able to activate XMP profile for RAM.

The Q-installer that comes with it made it really easy to update/install the selected/desired drivers for various components after installation, for things like chipset/utility/ethernet, etc. Makes it pretty easy to get set up and going within minutes of posting. I booted using an external USB with W10 on it and was up and running within minutes of the POST.

One note is that TPM 2.0 is off by default - which is good for gaming but you won't be able to upgrade or install Windows 11 without this activated. I could easily activate this manually and upgrade to W11 if desired, but me personally I'm going to ride with W10 for as long as I can as I prefer it.

Although I payed a lot for this (330$) - I really needed a solid motherboard to facilitate my overclocking needs and wanted to have it on time to complete my build. And although my upgrade path in terms of the CPU (socket) is quite limited at this point, I am using it to get the most out of my 9700k. It's a real quality mobo - usually quite happy with the craftsmanship and reliability of ASUS products.

I'm glad I didn't choose anything else. A great piece of hardware.

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ashley boone

Works great.

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Easy to install.

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Jimmy L Parker

Perfect

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2020

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

I built my new computer Aug 22. I wanted to do the review to really get to know the board. I got 16G of Corsair 3000 ram and Intel 9400 processor. I GTX 750 video card. I don't game anymore. Got WD 500 BLACK M.2 3 GEN SSD. 3400 READ/2900 WRITE. Everything is working great. NO COMPLAINTS. Bluetooth AND WIFI work as the should. Could not ask for more stable computer. Factal Design Define 5s case. Computer runs 24/7. NEVER A GLITCH.
UPDATE: Still awesome. WIFI running spot on and I'm using PROTONVPN. EVERYTHING is running perfect. I'm 58 and I have been building computers since 1998. I know what I'm doing and this is an all round great computer. I stream internet movies fast Suddenlink fastest internet connection. I can't find ANYTHING wrong with this set up. I'm actually bored because I just turn it on and everything works. I have had so many computers I have had to work on, something glitches, but this is as stable as my Note 9 Samsung. LOL I run mine 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I reboot for Windows updates and after I run my cleaning program, WISECLEANER 365. That's it. Never turn it off. I'm typing on it right now with DASkeyboard. Just so stable. I must say, I'm proud to have built it.

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Rippem

Great price for the faetures and Asus build quality

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2021

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Overall I am very happy with this motherboard. To date everything has worked without fault. Asus are world renown for quality products and deservedly so. If you are into tuning and longevity of equipment this should work well for you.

One concern, for an Asus Tuf product does not seem to be quite as well built or sturdy as in the past. Can not quite say why aside from the lighter weight and general look and feel. Still, I do not have any misgivings about buying it, time will tell if it is an issue or not.

A few things to keep in mind:

- The CPU support is now two generations old. Once prices settle (can not say when) I would need a very compelling and specific reason to purchase this or any product using the older technology.

- In general terms be cautious when using auto overclocking features. Some of the values may be higher than what you want or fluctuate. Personally I would set these values manually and extend the longevity of your rig!

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Joel Clark

Great product, great price, but quality control needs improving.

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2019

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Product itself is good, accepted CPU no issues. No boot issues and the bios has plenty of options for high overclocks and specific RAM speeds and timings. You get a lot of features for the low price you pay for the board. RGB headers, multiple fan headers, multiple usb 3.1 and 3.2 ports etc.
My only issue I've had with the board, is 2 of the 6 SATA data ports dont work. There are 4 near the bottom of the board that work fine, but the two that are angled on the right side dont work, and they just happened to be the 2 I used when I built my PC. I feel like testing the ports on the board should be a very simple and easy part of quality control process, but it must not be a part of theirs. I haven't called or plan to have it replaced, as I dont believe I will ever need more than 4 sata ports, especially with 2 m.2 ports, but this spoke words about the quality control process. Other than this minor issue I have absolutely no complaints about the board, it works admirably and does what its supposed to, just be wary of the mentioned issue.

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SteveKY

Good solid board, good price

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2020

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

I used this for a media server, not the rated the best for gaming. But a good solid board at this price point. ASUS Tuf quality can't be beat. The list of what this board can do out of the box exceeds what I needed. Had it installed and running in a couple of hours from scratch.

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Kanishka Ponnamperuma

Bang for the buck Motherboard

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Z390 Chipset motherboards are not cheap, considering they are quite expensive when compared to something like the X470 series from AMD. The ASUS TUF series, however, is a solid performer. I've always liked ASUS motherboards due to their longevity and features and this one is no exception. The only sad part of this motherboard is the low amount of fan headers. But that is to be expected at this price point. The addition of having a Wi-Fi card is a bonus, however, the antenna provided kinda sucks, so if u have some leftover cash definitely spend it on buying some separate 9DB antenna's. I am running a Core i5-9600K which is mostly just for pure gaming, paired with a GTX 1070, my former Ryzen 5 1600 had severe frame drops which I couldn't understand was the reason, so I decided to go with an Intel-based system. All in all a well worth motherboard for the price point

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Skeeter

Awesome motherboard for someone with a lot of patience

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2019

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

When this thing ultimately decides to load Windows it's great!

But be ready to wait 5 minutes during every start as the motherboard gives you this menu (picture) without responding to either DEL or F2! The configuration options are amazing, and this thing is fast as anything out there. I love it!

I especially enjoy the weekly Windows 10 re-install, along with all the drivers, since this gives me the multitude of BIOS screen wait times. If not for the hours spent waiting, I'd never get around to clipping my fingernails, nor would I be compelled to get up and grab another beer. Sure, some people will say that it's a bug, but I'm here to tell you it's a feature. Others will say that I just don't know what I'm doing, and they'd be mostly right, but after countless attempts to fix this I'm yet to find that one sweet setting that prevents my glorious BIOS screen saver. I will say this though, one of the reasons I love it is because, like me, it hates Windows 10. If you find the best way to coaxing ito loving to live with Win10 let me know.

Oh yeah, it has lots of great ports I'm sure would be useful.

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Anthony R.

Extremely beginner friendly

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Okay, so i’m not very experienced in pc gaming as I just switched over from Xbox in the beginning of November. I’ve been having tons of fun learning everything there is to learn so let’s talk about this motherboard. My first impression out the box was that it was very clean looking, and intimidating. Once I hooked everything up and my pc was running, I went into bios everything checked out perfect. I’ve seen people write a review saying it takes forever to boot up from shut down mode? No. This thing boots up within 15 seconds for me. The fan xpert4 (AI suite 3) is extremely easy to use and convenient. I can switch between 4 modes for my fan speeds with just 2 clicks whether i’m gaming or just simply watching some YouTube. I bought an intel i7 9600k 3.6-4.8 ghz and I was able to OC my cpu to run 5.1 ghz (it came stock at 3.6ghz) and it was still stable. Again I am very new to the pc building and gaming world so for me to be able to OC so easily because of AI suite 3 is just crazy to me. All in all this motherboard is doing exactly what I expected it to do (simply work) and then some. The built in software features are extremely beginner friendly and a great way to dip your foot into all the advanced tweaking. My only complaint about this motherboard is that it only has 2 rgb headers and they are 12V 4 pin headers. I did not know this going into it and I also didn’t know how hard it was to find 12v rgb fans. If you don’t really care about rgb and this obviously isn’t a problem but if you did want to have rgb in your build then maybe keep this in mind. It’s not impossible but did take me some time to figure it all out. Oh and one last thing. The “wifi”. Honestly I did not like the wifi connection speeds EVEN WITH the little antenna that it comes with. At most my download spread was 117mbs and upload was 5mbs. When downloading games or an update it would max out at 12mbs. This was NOT OK. I ended up going the wired route and now have a 75ft cable running through my apartment but hey now I get my full gigabit connection.

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JBA

So far so Good.

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

Style: TUF MotherboardVerified Purchase

Any PC builder knows when you pick out a new motherboard the proverbial "god" flips a coin. This board is meant to replace my trusty M5A99X Pro; that was a very good board and it's still trucking after 9 years. It was time for something new and I always buy Asus.

My gripe with this board... I wish I could have found one without the HDMI and Display Port. I'm not sure why these are on a "Gaming" board because if you are gaming you should be using a discrete graphics card, and these ports are taking up space for other more important ports like USB oe eSATA ports. This is an ATX Board with only 6 rear USB Ports. If you buy this board make sure you buy at lease 1 PCIe 4 port expansion card. I bought two.

The PS2 port was essential. I am still using my 1984 IBM Model M and I have every intention of being buried with it. You can turn off that glowing light stuff in the BIOS.

Seems like a good board so far. I would recommend it, just make sure you buy that 4 USB Port expansion card; trust me. ELUTENG makes a good one. Cheers.

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