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Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero

THIS IS A $700 motherboard. $700 of PCB and interconnects. For context, that’s $125 more than an Intel Core i9-14900K, or the exact cost of an RTX 4070. Crazy.

What’s alarming about that fact is that it’s not even close to being the most expensive Z790 board out there. Nope—that’s a title reserved for MSI’s eye-watering Godlike and Godlike Max boards, which both clock in at an incredible $1,200. In fact, there’s a total of four other boards that pip the Dark Hero

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