Must Have

Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero (Wi-Fi) is an impressive motherboard that matches Core i9-10900K superbly well.

9 out of 10

And congrats Asus, you have done your usual finely polished job in pushing out this solid motherboard but as usual.

Top Product

All in all Asus scores a clear test victory. The Maximus XII Hero impresses in the 7-Zip test, has powerful and well cooled voltage converter, offers the most elaborate onboard sound, the best LAN equipment and many Possibilities with PCI Express or M.2 expandability.

Recommendation

Recommendation

4 stars out of 5

The ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi is a high end motherboard [...] with an efficient passive cooling solution, a very complete connectivity and nice sounding audio solution. Software is also very good [...] Armoury Crate is becoming more and more complete.

Silver Award

AI Overclocking is a very neat feature introduced in Z390, also all AI features have been improved on this generation. This is a very interesting feature because it will analyze the pc to adapt to real usage scenarios. By measuring the cooling efficiency, we simply need to use the pc for a while before activating the Smart AI function.

Best of 2020 Gold

Techtesters Best of 2020 Awards The best of the best of the best!

Best getest

...the pinnacle of an over-complete and well-developed motherboard for the real enthusiast.

Best getest

The ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero (Wi-Fi) for 449 euros is the pinnacle of an over-complete and well-developed motherboard for the real enthusiast.

Great value

It ultimately makes the ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero the enthusiast board of this generation.

Recommended

It's good and optimized hardware though that appeals to a rather specific demographics of even our end-user and reader base.

Editor's Choice

The Hero is very thick, with components that are worthy of this price segment, and is also nice and complete in terms of connections without any significant pain points.

94/100

ASUS has made a robust board in the Hero

TweakTown Best Quality Award

ASUS has made a robust board in the Hero

8 out of 10

With the 10th Gen Intel Core desktop processors, you will have to get a new motherboard. You get a new LGA 1200 socket, more cores in them and consequently higher power demands, so the motherboards designed to support the 10th Gen Intel Core “Comet Lake-S” processors are also relatively beefy. So beefy that even the lowest-end ROG Maximus XII Hero (WiFi) sports a power delivery system that walks all over the flagship ROG Maximus XI Extreme. Interested already? Well, here we go.

8 out of 10

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO (WIFI) REVIEW - ASUS' HERO Z490 BOARDS?

Digit Zero1 Runner-up

While the MAXIMUS XII EXTREME was an E-ATX motherboard with all the bells and whistles, the MAXIMUS XII HERO is an ATX board with a few features scaled down to make this a balanced board provides nearly as many features as the MAXIMUS XII Extreme at two-thirds the price. It uses the same ASP14051 VRM controller in a 7+1 mode with 14x TDA21462 60A power stages which are run in the same split configuration. In benchmarks, you can hardly see any difference in real-world applications between the two

Excellent

always excellent design, 14 + 2 supply phases and the inclusion of a fan to cool them

Gold

It is a truly complete model in every way, but without some frills that only make the price more expensive.

e-zone Choice

The price is relatively worthy.

Innovative

Editor's Choice

Advanced Performance

Editor's Choice

Design

Editor's Choice

Advanced Performance

Performance

DD´s Recommended

ASUS left nothing to chance and its ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO is one of the best motherboards on the Z490 platform. In my opinion, it is the most universal board that ASUS has within the Z490 platform. It is well made, equipped and tuned with a fully corresponding price. Great universal motherboard.

Adrenaline Gold

ANALYSIS: Maximus XII HERO (Wi-Fi) is one of the most complete mainboards from ASUS