Everything is windows 11 ready, whether they advertise it or not https://pcpartpicker.com/product/b4jBD3/asus-tuf-gaming-x570-pro-wifi-ii-atx-am4-motherboard-tuf-gaming-x570-pro-wifi-ii $260 is extremely steep for a motherboard. Here are some motherboards that I personally would buy instead, using a 5950X https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FMxbt6/gigabyte-b550-aorus-pro-ac-atx-am4-motherboard-b550-aorus-pro-ac https://pcpartpicker.com/product/YGFbt6/gigabyte-x570s-aorus-pro-ax-atx-am4-motherboard-x570s-aorus-pro-ax https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pbvqqs/asrock-x570-taichi-atx-am4-motherboard-x570-taichi More on reddit.com

Personally I'd buy the ROG Strix B550-F (wifi if you need it) over this but that's just me, there's almost no one that actually needs X570 chipset so I'd prefer to have a higher end b550 over a lower end X570. You may be different tho, if you actually need the X570 chipset there's nothing wrong with this board and anything that's better will probably cost more. More on reddit.com

The one thing that probably slipped under your radar is that the "WiFi II" version doesn't use an Intel wireless chipset like the original model does with its AX200, but instead has the Mediatek MT7921. I've been doing a bit of Googling on said MT7921, and the results are not pretty. This might explain why ASUS explicitly enumerates the AX200 WiFi adapter by name on the original version's page , while only obliquely referring to an unnamed "2x2 Wi-Fi 6E" adapter on the WiFi II model's page . More on reddit.com

Are you able to confirm that at any point you saw the BIOS update **complete**? More on reddit.com