ASRock Z790 Pro RS

The Z790 Pro RS is ASRock's value-tier LGA1700 board, giving budget builders four M.2 slots and PCIe 5.0 GPU support at a lower price than the Steel Legend or Taichi lines.

Power delivery uses a 14+1+1 power phase design, sufficient for 12th/13th/14th Gen Intel i5 and i7 chips at stock clocks. Four DDR5 DIMM slots support overclocked speeds up to 7200+ MT/s, with a DDR4 variant also available for budget builders who want to reuse existing memory. Expansion includes a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot for the GPU. Storage covers four "Hyper M.2" PCIe Gen4x4 slots, an unusually generous count for this price tier, plus eight SATA3 ports. A 2.5Gb Dragon LAN controller handles wired networking; this base Pro RS model ships without built-in WiFi, with a WiFi variant sold separately. Audio uses a Realtek ALC897 codec with 7.1-channel Nahimic audio. Against the Gigabyte Z790 AORUS Elite AX in this batch, the Z790 Pro RS offers a fourth M.2 slot and eight SATA ports, making it the stronger pick for builders who want maximum storage expansion at a lower price.