Mixing white, black, and silver colors doesn’t quite work, but we like the Pac-Man iconography.
LAST MONTH, we reviewed the Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero ($630), a top-ofthe-line board for the latest generation of Intel CPUs. It had loads of features including support for PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs, DDR5 RAM, and a shedload of the latest I/O ports. However, in our cover build, we pitted it against this Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi D4 ($380) and found that, for gamers at least, there was no performance difference between the two boards. With the RTX 4090 ($1,600) set to drain the budget of many a PC gamer, could this Strix model be a potent pairing for the cheaper Intel Core i5-13600K?