Question Asus prime z790-P or z790-A

[Filll999-]

Hi, I was undecided between these 2 mobo, ddr5 versions. I wanted to know if anyone knew of any known problems affecting one mobo rather than the other, especially in the overclocking of the DDR5.
With I/O ports, both are Ok for me, the only thing that I would lead me to take the z790-A is the ethernet port with "LAN Guard" (I linked the photo) which "according to Asus" is a little better than the port on the z790-P (Realtek 2.5), but to actually understand that the one with Lan guard is better and if it is better than it is impossible, I haven't found information on the 2 different ports, and neither tests that would verify if there are actually fewer difference between these 2 ports.
If someone could give me some information about these 2 things I would be very happy. Have a nice Sunday

 

[bill001g]

The main difference would be the 790a has intel rather than realtek.
The languard stuff is all marketing words I think. Not sure what they did looks like maybe a different quality capacitor. I doubt it makes any real life difference.

When the 2.5g chips first started appearing on motherboards there were massive problems. The realtek had a bit more issues than intel but intel had a much worse screw up and bunch of boards where shipped with a hardware defect that could not fully be fixed with driver updates.

It seems to have gotten much better and both chipset seem to be fairly stable.

Be very careful when you are loading asus tools (bloatware). Many times they load some so called gamer network QoS program that claims to reduce latency. This program can not affect traffic outside the machine so is pretty worthless and it causes lots of strange problems.

There are couple of difference between those boards but I am unsure which are significant. Mostly it seems the "a" board has lots more metal heatsinks and a extra m.2 slot. I guess it depends on how many of those slots you are going to use.

 

[Filll999-]

The main difference would be the 790a has intel rather than realtek.
The languard stuff is all marketing words I think. Not sure what they did looks like maybe a different quality capacitor. I doubt it makes any real life difference.

When the 2.5g chips first started appearing on motherboards there were massive problems. The realtek had a bit more issues than intel but intel had a much worse screw up and bunch of boards where shipped with a hardware defect that could not fully be fixed with driver updates.

It seems to have gotten much better and both chipset seem to be fairly stable.

Be very careful when you are loading asus tools (bloatware). Many times they load some so called gamer network QoS program that claims to reduce latency. This program can not affect traffic outside the machine so is pretty worthless and it causes lots of strange problems.

There are couple of difference between those boards but I am unsure which are significant. Mostly it seems the "a" board has lots more metal heatsinks and a extra m.2 slot. I guess it depends on how many of those slots you are going to use.

ok thanks, do you think the 2.5 Gbps Realtek or Intel chip is better?