ASUS ROG X470 Crosshair VII Hero Review

[tinytomlogan]

The wait is over as we can finally reveal the performance of the Ryzen 7 2700X in combination with the X470 Crosshair VII Hero.


ASUS ROG X470 Crosshair VII Hero Review

 

[AlienALX]

Truly beautiful. Hopefully it will improve bios wise

 

[Bartacus]

The previous gen Hero VI STILL needs bios work, so I have little hope for this one.

 

[Warchild]

Little off topic but an annoyance for me in my future purchase.

@ TTL

Can you or anyone explain why RoG boards only have one of these USB3.1 Gen1 headers where they have two for all of their other models from ASUS. May be a stupid question but I'd rather ask a stupid one than sit in wonder. Tried to google but couldnt find an answer.

It renders two of my cases usb front panel useless. It seems to be the same for the Z370 rog boards also

 

[AngryGoldfish]

BitWit on YouTube found virtually no performance difference between an ASUS X370 board and an ASUS X470 board with a 2600X. Even both motherboards worked with 3400Mhz memory.

 

[AlienALX]

BitWit on YouTube found virtually no performance difference between an ASUS X370 board and an ASUS X470 board with a 2600X. Even both motherboards worked with 3400Mhz memory.

I would imagine the memory speeds are the CPU itself having improved.

I know I will sound like a cracked record here, but Ryzen *was* pretty badly flawed. The good news is AMD can now spend time improving it tenfold.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I would imagine the memory speeds are the CPU itself having improved.

I know I will sound like a cracked record here, but Ryzen *was* pretty badly flawed. The good news is AMD can now spend time improving it tenfold.

Which I think is better. If it's all the chipset, we'd need to buy new motherboards as well as new CPUs, which would defeat one of the biggest draws of the Zen platform—future proofing. Now when I have some money, I can drop in a 2700X and go from 6c/12t at 4Ghz to 8c/16t at 4.2-4.3Ghz, with the same memory and same motherboard.

 

[Zinc64]

NVMe RAID?

 

[AlienALX]

Which I think is better. If it's all the chipset, we'd need to buy new motherboards as well as new CPUs, which would defeat one of the biggest draws of the Zen platform—future proofing. Now when I have some money, I can drop in a 2700X and go from 6c/12t at 4Ghz to 8c/16t at 4.2-4.3Ghz, with the same memory and same motherboard.

Yup. I read yesterday (may have been on here) that AMD are going to enable XFR2? or whatever it's called on 370. Which is pretty darn awesome really.

I always loved my AM2 and AM3 boards for that. Always plenty to look forward to. I could have gone from a single core Sempron to a 6 core Phenom 2.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yup. I read yesterday (may have been on here) that AMD are going to enable XFR2? or whatever it's called on 370. Which is pretty darn awesome really.

I always loved my AM2 and AM3 boards for that. Always plenty to look forward to. I could have gone from a single core Sempron to a 6 core Phenom 2.

I think thats up to the board manufacturers to implement

 

[AlienALX]

I think thats up to the board manufacturers to implement

Yeah probably