ASUS' ROG Maximus XII Hero (Wi-Fi) motherboard based on Intel's Z490 chipset for Socket 1200 CPUs goes under the spotlight.

Memory support for the Maximus XII Formula is up to 4800MHz+, and that would obviously depend on DIMM and CPU quality, ass to how far you can really go. If you are reaching for the stars, so to ...

All motherboards except Hero get fitted a 2.5 Gbe network jack. Formula and Extreme also have 10Gbe networking. The ROG Maximus XII Extreme is the only E-ATX motherboard from the ROG series.

A new Maximus Hero is therefore of particular interest to us. In concert with the release of 10th Gen Core CPUs, Asus has duly updated the Z490 range to the XII Hero in for review today.