Nice build quality. Integrated I/O shield with mobo. Lots of options, tho no wifi. Easy flash BIOS is like eating cake. Delivers on performance.

A little pricey, but compared to the competitor boards, it's worth the few extra scrilla.

I've purchased an even half-dozen of these Asus Prime series boards in almost as many years, and I keep coming back. The quality is high, they are stable as Gibraltar in non-overclocked setups (I don't game), and this one in particular just flies with the DDR5-4800 Corsair memory (32gb) and stock i5-12400 processor that I matched it with. I'm running strictly Linux Mint (version 20.3 Una) from a WD Black SN850 1 tb system drive. I've had zero issues with memory stability since purchase (5 months ago). Just make sure you flash the latest BIOS version (1304 at time of writing) out of the box, before you start installing your O/S and this should ensure a stable build. The Asus EZ-Flash utility is very easy to use. I don't run Windows so I can't comment on performance with that O/S. I've also had great success deploying Oracle Virtual Box and running Fedora Workstation 35 as a VM. The compile time to do a kernel build from source for Fedora Workstation (v 5.16.10) was very reasonable at around 10 minutes. Linux firmware updates are delivered consistently and smoothly for this motherboard thru the Software Manager that is part of the Mint/Ubuntu distributions, so with the exception of the onboard Intel Graphics adapter (UHD 750) on the i5-12400 CPU (for which you'll need Linux kernel version 16.1.x or higher), you should not encounter major hardware compatibility issues. I am using a separate Asus Tuf Nvidia GTX-1650 graphics card, additionally. My PSU is a Corsair RMU 750W Gold. Just be sure to verify your hardware compatability list, before purchase, with the Asus site for this Prime Z690-A, then download your latest drivers & BIOS from Asus (on another rig of course), before you start. The Asus site support is excellent in this regard. And the USB 3.2 speed is just terrific with my external backup devices. All-in-all, a great piece of gear for my workload. Now that DDR5 memory is becoming more widely available, and at more 'reasonable' prices, 2022 just may be your go-to year for a PCIe-5 and DDR build with one of these latest Asus motherboards.