ASRock Z690M-ITX/ax Motherboard Intel 12th Generation CPU (LGA1700) Compatible Z690 Mini-ITX Motherboard

muy contento con la placa la ensamble junto a un i5 12400f y ram ddr5 xpg sin novedad.

I got this board to replace/rebuild my old system that was having issues -My original PC was:- Intel i7 10700K- EVGA z490 Dark Motherboard- 2 EVGA 2080 SC Dark Video cards in SLI- 2 Crucial 256mb NVMe drives in Raid 1- 64mb of G.Skill Ripjaw memoryWhat I upgraded to was:- Intel Core i9-12900K- ASRock z690 Extreme motherboard- PNY XLR8 RTX 4080 Super video card- 2 Silicon Power 512GB NVMe in Raid 1- 128 gbs of G.Skill Ripjaw memory.- Update 2 (see below for Update 1)Probably going to try ASUS gaming system boards to see if they are a good replacement for EVGA.I really miss EVGA................This ASRock system board has finally made me so angry that I will never purchase another ASRock component "EVER" again.After using the add-in card to replace the SATA ports that stopped working if you use RAID, the system now takes "2 minutes" to power off with the add-in card in.To initially figure out how to RGB after the system completely shuts down, I had to go to YouTube to see how to disable the RBG on power down because the systems goes into "Demo" mode and the RGB is on all the time.This is annoying since my Case sits on my desk across from my bed and I was getting a light show through out the night. How to disable RGB after power down is not covered in the user manual, and it really is something that should be set to "off" unless you want to turn it on.But now every night after I shut it off it gives me a light show for about 2 minutes before power down. Nothing else is on, on the system except the RGB light show.And it doesn't give BSOD's.While they are annoying, they can tell you possibly what an issue is. But this board doesn't give them.Instead it ops for the "Shut the PC completely off" option. So if something fails you have no idea what it was that caused the issue. You have to recreate what you were doing a step at a time, then if it fails you will know because you are then powering back on the PC from a completely power dead state.For example in a few games, I can play FFXIV just fine for hours, I can play DCUO (don't judge me!!) for as long as I want. I can play some steam games no issue. But when I play the new game "Pal World", roughly 10 - 20 minutes in I'm suddenly looking at a black monitor and I can hear the PC as it's powering off.And it's the only time that the RGB shuts directly off with the PC as soon as the PC powers down. No 2 minute light show.This board, I have "NO" idea how it got through quality checks, but the vendor seems to have no interest in either a quality product or customer complaints.If you don't own this board already, with QC being as bad as it is currently, I'd give it a pass, and you may want to check reviews on the company's other items before you purchase them.............-Update 1 (see below for original review)So Tech support finally got back with me a week after I initially emailed them, and their request was for me to RMA my "brand new motherboard", that I've had exactly 6 days before I emailed them to say that the board wasn't working properly and that I couldn't get my CD\DVD-Rom drives to work properly.So I gave up.I just ordered this card from Amazon - ELUTENG PCIE SATA 2 Port Expansion Card (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R9P2K8T?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1) and used this to replace the malfunctioning SATA ports so that I have working DVD drives.There is no way that I can send off this board that is in my main PC, that I do all my work on, for an untold amount of weeks, just on the outside chance this gets fixed. I would have no PC at all while I waited on this for this.The fact that I got such "generic" response that had exactly "nothing" to do with my issue, doesn't fill me with confidence that they will fix the actual issue. And why should they need to fix anything on a brand new motherboard?!?This is very disappointing for a new system board to have these below issue from day one. Hopefully others will have better fortune than I did with this company.- Original Review:I use the system for gaming, video encoding, running multiple virtual PC sessions, and some audio, and sometime I do variations of this at the same time, and "so far" the PC has been running with no issues.But one of the issues I have is that I have one "4tb Data drive" and two SATA DVD drives (one Blu Ray and one Lightscribe DVD R drive)The issue is that the Blu Ray Drive appears about 90-95% of the time on reboots. Sometimes I have to reboot the system to get the drive to show up, but for the most part it always shows up.But the Lightscribe drive shows up about 10-15% of the time. I often have to put a CD in the drive, let the system boot, and then remove the CD "if the motherboard recognized" the Lightscribe drive during it's bootNow I have switched the drives around, and as long as the Lightscribe drive is the "only" drive in the system, it is seen just fine. But if I add back in the other drive, it goes back to ignoring the Lightscribe drive again no matter what port it's plugged into.Setting up the RAID was a nightmare because you have to make changes in the system and them reboot the system, and then go back into the BIOS each and every time.So if you need to change 4 elements, you have to change one element first, reboot the system, then go back into the BIOS, change the next element, reboot the system, then go back into BIOS, etc, etc, etc.For example: I tried to make four needed changes in the BIOS for the RAID setup to work all at once. But the system "refused" to see the RAID setup or give me the option to enable it (meaning showing the option for the Intel Raid controller so I could setup the drives) until I did this.And once I did these tedious steps, I could then create a raid drive.I only found this on a forum page after a couple days of searching around to see if others had this issue. But this was "no where" to be found on the ASRock website, in the manual, or found in any videos I could from them.When I emailed TECH support about the DVD drive issues (Couldn't find a number to call them), I got just "one" email telling me that if I had a 2nd M.2 drive in use then SATA port 3_7 was disabled. It was a screenshot from the user's manual on the options of this board.Great, except I wasn't even "using" port 3_7 at all. I didn't have 7 SATA devices connected, just 3 (1 Hard drive and 2 DVD drives)I was using 3_0, 3_3, and 3_5. I switched to 3_0, 3_1, and 3_2 (this is how ASRock designates their SATA ports instead of 0-7) but it made no differences because when I responded to ASRock's support email on Monday, and this point just over a week later I "STILL" have no answer to what to do from them.I guess I've stumped the motherboard manufacture as well with my issueSo, if you do just "basic" stuff with the board, the ASRock z690 extreme board appears to be fine."But"If you want to take advantage of some of the more "extreme" options said to be offered by this board, then you're hosed unless you can find a 3rd party YouTube video or forum post telling you "exactly" what to do, because nothing is straight forward, and because the tech support at ASRock is basically non-existent and DOA.

I first canceled the order after rechecking the buy line for this Motherboard, but it was too late to cancel. The write up heading said it's a 1500 something CPU and a 1700 was compatible. So, I waited for the order to come in thinking I would send it back. It arrived that day. After I checked it out. I discovered it was a 1700 pin Intel board after all. GLAD I kept it. It was a better performer than the MSI board I had earlier. Faster too.

Going into this build I didn't really know what to expect, It's my first time ever building a pc I'm using an Alienware case that's old. Besides that, I've never touched a motherboard/ pc component. So going into this being afraid is an understatement. For the price the board is really solid, I tried doing research as much as possible, so if you are a first time pc builder. One piece of information I can give you is that this board fits Intel's 12th series CPU to its most current 14 series. If you need to check this in the future, search up ASRock z690 Pro RS on google and go into their website. From there go to support and click the CPU support list. It will show you all the types of compatibility it has. Another good thing about the board is that once I got into the BIOS, it was super super super simple. They literally have a mode called "easy mode" to simplify the user interface. From there you can monitor your Fans RPM and other things. ONE IMPORTANT THING, If you are using an AIO (all in one water cooler) YOU NEED NEED NEED, to go into advanced setting in the BIOS and going to "H/W Monitor'', and change which ever port you had to W_PUMP, by default it's going to be CPUFAN_1 or whatever number you connect it to. If you don't do this your CPU will overheat since it's not recognizing it as a water pump. One last thing I recommend while you're still in the advanced settings is to go into the advance with a star next to it, click "Chipset Config" and scroll down to " Turn on onboard led in s5" and disable this. If you don't disable this, then your RGB lights on the board wont turn off after you've shut down completely. I will include photos to make it a little easier to understandPROS:-Very budget friendly for 12th gen-current gen CPU's-Nice looking motherboard-Nice RGB lights-Simple User interface-Booting up windows a pop up shows to install recent driverCONS:-Some settings like XMP 2.0 require a little digging-Motherboard RGB lights stay on if you don't change a settingOverall a really solid budget motherboard