A Modest Home For Your Intel Arrow Lake CPU
The ASUS TUF GAMING Z890-PLUS WIFI retails for $320 which is not a terrible deal in the current market but with the current $50 price cut The FPS Review is much more impressed with it’s value. The board has decent power delivery, 16+1+2+1 power phases with 80A power stages and TUF components cooled by an enlarged VRM heatsink. Internally are five PCIe expansion slots, one Gen 5 and the others Gen 4 along with four M.2 NVMe slots, half of which are PCIe 5.0 and the other half 4.0. If you still have some SATA drives you can attach up to four SATA 6GB/s drives.
On the back are two USB-C ports, one Thunderbolt 4 and one USB 3.2 20GBps as well as six USB-A split evenly between 10GBps and 5GBps flavours. The video outputs offer both HDMI and DP and you get both 2.5Gbps wired ethernet and WIFI 7. The Z890-PLUS WIFI did well on the benchmarks, exceeding the expectations of The FPS Review and making this board an interesting choice as long as this sale continues and not a bad choice at full price.
