ROG Maximus Z690 Hero, NICP for cooling the board uses the kitchen sink of heat pipes, heat sinks, and thermal pads to keep the board cool. It is also backwards compatible with older LG 1-200 coolers. It's cool and it's supposed to be smart with AI overclocking, AI networking, AI cooling, and two-way AI noise cancellation. Cool, smart, and sexy with its built-in tasteful RGB. This guy does have DDR5 and PCIE 5, so everything is fast, fast, fast for this motherboard. As part of the fast, fast, fast, ethos of this motherboard, it also comes with what Aces calls the hyperm.2 card. This add-on card comes with a mobile, and you can have 3m.2 SSDs in here. Aces has a new feature where you just press a button and it unlatches the PCIE lock here. We weren't able to benchmark this because we don't have a 12th gen Intel CPU. No one does, but the specs look great.