ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme Review

The other key areas that are worth focussing on though comes down to VRM temperatures, which can differ wildly depending on the amount, the capacity of the current that can pass through them, and of course how the various heatsinks handle that power, which in turn, creates heat.

VRM Temperatures

So where the bloody hell is your sizeable investment going? Right here, just look at that, we’ve been ragging this motherboard in power-demanding benchmarks for an hour and it’s cool enough that your kids could touch the VRM heatsinks safely enough. You could savage this motherboard 24/7 with the CPU pinned to 100% load and boosting, and it’ll still thank you and ask for more.