Question Asus TUF Gaming versus Asus Prime at Z790 ?

[angry.pidgeon]

The price difference is negligible, around 7. Can't tell which I should pick therefore I would go with the cheaper one, which also mentions gaming meaning it recommends itself

List:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#sort=price&mt=ddr5&c=162&m=8,18&s=40

I already chose Asus vs Gigabyte around this price, after I noticed something here, but feel free to suggest:

Question - amazon mistake or feature?

On the linked list, some RTX 4070 display as 19000Mhz or 21000Mhz memory clock (can't be), while others 2550Mhz and such I would assume the 2500+ ones are the good ones? Some even display both values...

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* also, had Asus for 10 years and can't complain, so no reason to switch

As relevant for the topic, I am building a gaming pc:

Build Advice - Please check my gaming build before I buy the parts.

Hello. This is my almost finished list to buy after some research, please advise as needed. The build idea is proportional scaling of price and performance (from my old PC: I7 3930K, GTX 690, 16GB) with no other budget restriction. The scale however is a bit of a rule of thumb e.g. RTX 4070 ti...

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[Lutfij]

The Asus you knew a decade ago isn't the same Asus that is today in 2023...or since the pandemic lifted. They've been experiencing some RMA issues not to mention that their BIOS flashback's tend to brick their own boards. not always but when it happens, you're stuck in a quandary unless you happen to have a stand alone BIOS programming toolkit.

The PCPartPicker link shows UK, what sort of features are you looking at and what sort of a budget have you allocated towards the motherboard purchase? As for your board, what processor will you be pairing the board with?

 

[angry.pidgeon]

"you're stuck in a quandary unless you happen to have a stand alone BIOS programming toolkit"
Or 1 year warranty from Amazon

"what sort of features are you looking at and what sort of a budget have you allocated towards the motherboard purchase? As for your board, what processor will you be pairing the board with?"

i5-13600kf, as per my thread here

Build Advice - Please check my gaming build before I buy the parts.

Hello. This is my almost finished list to buy after some research, please advise as needed. The build idea is proportional scaling of price and performance (from my old PC: I7 3930K, GTX 690, 16GB) with no other budget restriction. The scale however is a bit of a rule of thumb e.g. RTX 4070 ti...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[millersnmeva]

I have had tons of Asus Boards and have never had one issue. I built the x570-e gaming board and now I just built a new z-790-e with intel i9 13900 and so far out of the box its running great. No overclock yet every benchmark test I do I get 98 to 99% percentile which I say is pretty awesome. I have 4 m.2 Samsung 980 pro drives and everyone of them is recgonized and running full speed 4x. I don't see myself every going away form Asus but thats just me.