Tuesday, October 3rd 2023
ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 APEX Encore Listed by Norwegian Retailer
Norway's Proshop listed an ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 APEX Encore motherboard by mistake, with an eye watering price of 9790 NOK including VAT (~$890). Elite and record-breaking overclocker enthusiasts with deep pockets need only apply—this "Encore" 14th Gen Core-ready refresh of the existing (and recently discontinued) APEX board is expected to coincide with this month's launch of six "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPUs. The Norwegian listing did not an include any photos of ASUS ROG's ultra-premium board, but Benchlife and a bunch of social media leakers have released imagery into the wild.
On first inspection of leaked specification details, the only major upgrade appears to be WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity. Gigabyte and MSI are reported to be refreshing their own "next-gen" Z790 boards with these newer standards. We get the usual designation of two DIMM slots for maximum memory performance in this league—really fast DDR5-10000 memory configurations are on the expected support list (Proshop mentioned DDR5-5600). The current APEX has logged speeds of DDR5-11000 MT/s, so the successor and accompaniment of "next-gen" processors could push things further.
Multiple news outlets have managed to preserve spec information prior to Proshop removing its listing.
Wccftech: "Here are some of the specs:"
Sources:
Overclocking France, VideoCardz, Proshop Norway, Benchlife, Wccftech, I_Leak_VN
On first inspection of leaked specification details, the only major upgrade appears to be WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity. Gigabyte and MSI are reported to be refreshing their own "next-gen" Z790 boards with these newer standards. We get the usual designation of two DIMM slots for maximum memory performance in this league—really fast DDR5-10000 memory configurations are on the expected support list (Proshop mentioned DDR5-5600). The current APEX has logged speeds of DDR5-11000 MT/s, so the successor and accompaniment of "next-gen" processors could push things further.
Wccftech: "Here are some of the specs:"
- ATX Form Factor
- Intel LGA1700 socket
- Intel Z790 chipset
- 2x PCI-Express 5.0 x16
- Dual DDR5-5600 2x DIMM slots (Intel XMP support)
- 4x SATA-600
- 4x M.2 NVMe PCI-Express 4.0
- 1x M.2 NVMe PCI-Express 5.0 (M.2 size: 2242 / 2260 / 2280)
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A & C
- Intel I225-V 2.5 Gigabit (LAN)
- Intel WiFi 7 & Bluetooth 5.4
- Realtek ALC4080 HD Audio
- ASUS AURA Sync software
23 Comments on ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 APEX Encore Listed by Norwegian Retailer
Beware of both of those NICs and to your research!
No backplate for this price :kookoo:
No "true voltitian" included but the price has gone up :banghead:
EDIT: Ah, did you mean for the CPU HSF? Intel motherboards don't come with that as the non-Z CPUs come with a HSF that uses push-pins. The CPU socket has a smaller backplate for the retention lock.
They'd have to use 10G Aquantia and further increase the production price, or use inferior RealTek :D :D :D :D :D
Thus the only option is is 225 from Q4 19 :D :D :D :D :D
Seems like you are not the target or dont understand the purpose of this board, this board is for OC, and maybe more importantly; Memory OC.
And not forget the BIOS support for Apex, with new Test/Beta bios coming out frequently.
If you want more/other features and dont care about high DDR5 speeds, go buy TUF, Strix/Formula, Hero etc.Have not had a single issue with the I226-V on my Z790 Apex, had it running for 10 months now. Heavy downloading, gaming etc on a 1000/1000Mbps connection
Did not have any issue with I225-V on my previous Z690 Apex either.
Found out disabling "Energy Efficient Ethernet" would stop it, so i did that.
But you don´t experience the issue if you are not looking for it.
Any Network monitoring software hates them.
Never have i seen the disconnected icon on taskbar or been disconnected from a game, not once.
Also no issues to connect when booting into Windows.
After a little more googling, i found a thread over at ROG forum with the same "issue"
Seems like many, like myself, is not experiencing any problems, even with the disconnects found in event viewer and are not even aware of them.
This either happens so fast it does not affect anything or it happens when the computer is not used (Idle or going into sleep etc)
As for now, this is a non-issue for me, and probably for most other people. Not saying some people have real issues with the 226-V adapter.
I have also had the 3rd revision 225-V without experience any issues.
It's super annoying, yesterday I've had only one, today I can't work with internet:
They're not that many, but they're still quite many:
The e2fexpress with are ⚠️disconnects.
Simply said, I can't wait for the Z790 Apex Encore, or Z790 I Gaming WiFi refresh...with old but somewhat reliabnle l255-V.
The fact is still, like i wrote in my last post, this is a non-issue for me, but i see it is an issue for you.
In the past, when You had Extreme, Apex, or other high-end motherboard, this was unthinkable, and if something like this happened, client was compensated, at least by sending that dumb type-c or type-a to LAN adapter from the company.
Today everyone simply plays a dead bug.
Do You remember the fu*k up of the previous generation Apex? I've had over a dozen of those motherboards under my thumb and they were all faulty, started being good since its 3rd silent revision.
The second minor pcie slot was also bumped from a x1 to a x4 which is nice. Bluetooth 5.4 could also genuinely be helpful unlike wifi 7 where 90% of semi-recent routers don't even support 6E still. Ik at least the one year old Galaxy Buds Pro 2 launched with Bluetooth 5.3 only months after the standard was actually released so 5.4 will probably come to popular products very soon too. How much u actually use Bluetooth devices on a desktop is questionable tho tbf b ut at least u'll probably actually be able to use products with it unlike wifi 7 is my point