The one I had serious trouble with:

• ASUS Z790 Proart Creator Wi-Fi

The one I have now that’s working:

• GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Elite AX

As far as recommendations I can only really go with the one that worked. Also weirdly found out that the first, despite being much more expensive, has a 128GB cap on RAM, while the cheaper one has 192GB cap.

Total honesty, motherboards are my weak spot with building computers. There seems to be so many things that I have a hard time judging whether they are important or not for my use case. So I would tend toward higher end purely out of trying to get longevity with future upgrades.

But this time it appears to have bitten me in the ass. Best thing I can say is go with GIGABYTE. I’ve used them in the past, and the ASUS was my first divergence… whether this is indicative of the typical user experience or not, I didn’t have a great time with it 😂

Their customer support is painful too. So that’s something to consider.