ASUS ROG Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi X470 Motherboard Review 

For those of you familiar with a guy called Buildzoid, he gives an excellent breakdown and analysis of the power stages and VRM design of this board. I decided to buy this board just because the VRMs and other components were considered "overkill", and simply will not overheat if you know what you are doing. His channel is Actually Hardcore Overclocking but the video was done over at Gamer Nexus: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A4PEgofGfz4.html p.s. Don't mean to step on the toes of Level1Techs. Just thought I'd add in how much this board seems to be appreciated by the tech and/or OC community. But yes, it's really expensive!

I have this board, and everything runs smooth and stable. I'm very happy with it, super easy overclocking. It doesn't support my crappy designated RAM speed though (GSkill CL16 3200 4x8 32GB), but that's more on me for not doing enough compatibility research.

Excellent motherboard. Make sure to get the new bios for 2018/06/22 since it includes updated Agesa Code.

Nice belated review. My ASUS X470 Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi and Ryzen 2700X arrived on the 19th April 2018. Running at Stock but very happy with this systems performance, found no real notable gains from overclocking CPU, I'm also able to get another 166MHZ out of RAM but does not really improve performance much. I mainly use my system for running a few VMs, compiling code, general use such as browsing and some casual gaming. I have two Nvme Samsung 950 Pro SSDs installed for the Windows 10 Pro System and 4TB Raid 1 spinning rust for data. Videocard ASUS GTX 1070 Strix RAM 3000Mhz LPX Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) Memory Would have liked 32GB but memory prices are insane in Oz. Corsair RM750i PSU. All mounted in a ThermalTake Core P3 White Case. I'm very happy with this system which replaced my ASRock Taichi X99 6800K system with almost similar performance but it was time for a change ;-) and a slight boost in performance with extra features such as an upgrade path until 2020. Thanks AMD & ASUS for the smooth ride. Running a Stock with no overclocking my system has been as stable as a rock (after updating the BIOS, which I did on the first day of use lol).

Windell is so awesome. I am so glad he got hes own channel now and doing amazing. I wish i had a friend like him to help when i run into computer issues or need questions LOL. Keep up the amazing work my dude.

the pcie splitting thing also should mean you can 3x nvme raid by populating the 8x slot (running at 4x) with an adapter card.

*Is there any chance of you making a video combining the Crosshair VII x470 with the Ryzen 3900x? That would be beyond helpful.*

This video helped me research what might be the new board for my new FreeNAS box as PCI-E layout is important

for those wondering - you should put your m.2 drive at the BOTTOM port first, not that one near the CPU.

I have that same wallpaper in 4k you can clearly tell its painted, amazing

Really happy with this board. i was able to get my 2700X to 4.3Ghz, at 1.35v stable. Oh, and forgot to mention, only with SMT disabled. its strictly a gaming rig, so i really dont need the 16 threads. battlefield 1 really puts the 8 cores to work man! great video man!

Wanting to drop a Ryzen 9 3900X into this board. Sacrificing some X570 features, but PCI 3.0 is more than enough to drive all of the components the board will use for ~8 years.

Still rocking this board now, 2700X 1050Ti and 16Gb DDR4

I really wish ASUS would make a WS board for threadripper.

A happy owner here and so far so good. I run it with a Ryzen 1700 OCed to 3.736Ghz @ 1.237v. 24h+ Prime95 stable. I didn't take any chances with RAM and got G.Skill FlareX 3200Mhz CL14. I haven't OCed the RAM and the stock frequency seems to be 100% stable. 3600Mhz would give me a rounding error in Prime95. However, games and general OS tasks would run OK. Maybe I have to tweak it a little more, I just raised the voltage to 1.45v. I would definitely recommend getting AMD compatible RAM and FlareX Samsung B-side seems to be a very safe bet. I would go as far as to saying that most stability issues will be RAM related. VRMs on this MB are an absolute overkill for any Zen / Zen+ Ryzen and that makes one wonder whether this board was designed with possibly more power hungry higher core count Ryzen 2 CPUs in mind? AMD has made a commitment to keep AM4 alive at least until 2020 so I'm hoping to be able to hold on to this board with the next gen AMD CPUs. The next thing to test is StoreMI. For storage, I use Optane 900p 280GB (M.2). The issue here is the weird capacity as the free version supports only 256GB for the fast tier. I talked to Enmotus and was told that I would have to install the OS on the slow tier first otherwise StoreMI wouldn't be able to transform the drive so be careful if your NVMe drive is over that limit. No such limitation with the paid FuzeDrive Plus but backup is a must! Also, the free version doesn't support pinning (to be able to keep selected data always in the fast tier) but neither does the paid Plus. But they're planning a Premium version with this feature. My advice with StoreMI is to wait. I've also read a few stories about data being corrupted so the whole thing is either sensitive to how you set it up or generally unstable.

I've been waiting for this review - a final verdict whether I should get this board will be based on this vid ^^

Been running this with a 2700X and Raid-0 Samsung 970 Evo's and it's been great. Bloody fast.

Ive just ordered this board with a 2700,32gb corsair vengeance pro ram, Samsung 970 evo polaris 250gb m.2 and with the thermal take view 71 case. Im upgrading from the crosshair v formula-z with a fx 8350 cpu. I literlaly cannot wait for it all to arrive, I'll be taking my strix 1080 and corsair AX1200i and putting them in to the new build aswell

Running an almost identical set up here 2700x 8gig OC 580 4x8gig TridentZ (3200) Samsung NVMe M.2 Killed my 750 watt power supply after 2 years on 10% OC. Upgraded to a 850 Thor a few days ago. No issues since. Also ran benchmarks where i could now see the power consumption. Right at 740W with 10% OC.

Thanks, Wendel for the great review. Okay, I overbought. I wanted an MB that will last for several years and be upgradeable. It looks like I scored a winner.

I have this board and while I am satisfied with good stuff, no one has mentioned the problems. First one is EXTREMELY SENSITIVE pressure sensor somewhere around cpu socket - if you screw your water cooler a bit more, board will become unusable. It will show dreaded error 8 and at that point you will have to return it. That happened to some people and me as well. Second problem are sound drivers - if you are listening to music while changing some of the sound settings, sound apps will crash. Last software problem is half-stable ASUS Grid - sometimes it won’t find drivers at all, sometimes it will find newer versions, but it wouldn’t want to update them. Everything is mostly good, but the bad stuff is extremely annoying.

Did ya catch that? ? "I got the Celcius X24 from Fractal... I'm doing some unholy experiments here." nearly NEXT Sentence "It has a modest Cooler Master 500 watt ps..." "Were not doing anything super exotic here...." Just picking on ya a little because you all are so good.... actually awesome... Thank you.

Hey! One question: is the X470 chipset active cooled? Does it have a fan? I need a good mobo for 3950x that is not noisier than the case fans on silent.

What are some of good Asus boards that are lower end you mentioned at the end @ 15:00?

Would you consider testing the X470 Taichi......?

Got this for €200 today for ryzen 3000 is this a good price

Nice rick and Morty x run the jewels screenshot

This is by far the best board I've ever used.

Ok, but why no front panel usb type C?

Sooooo.... Are you able to run 2 of the m.2 drives without raid ( 1 for the OS and the other for storage?) Or would it be better to just run a 2.5" SATA SSD drive as the storage? I know you went over it but I'm old and dense - lol and it was a lot to take in. This was an excellent review of this board by the way.

Yay! Just bought this for $180 in Dec 19. Goodbye shitty X99 Hello AMD for my first time building with them. To be honest I like the premium look of it mostly

i have 1 m.2 drive and my gpu runs at 8x and if i switch m.2 drive on the bottom m.2 slot my gpu runs only at x4 any idea what is going on?

Thank you for the video but I am a little confused about the PCI-E lanes....If I'm running one video card and one NVME am I going to see a bottleneck in performance or am I good to go?

Why do people say pronounce Asus as "A seuss" Do you also say seuss pension? or suspension?

Can you confirm that the type c USB connection on the back of the motherboard is janky? Because I try and connect my Google Pixel 3 with its provided type c cable and if I move the cable a specific way it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting from my computer, I am looking for a solution and the cable I'm using is a good working cable It's definitely the port

hi, im getting a Q CODE 8 ON MY BUILD.. ANY HELP PLS

I bought this board for my 2600x. One of these days when I have the time I really wanna learn more about the bios features.

Wendell, what's your take on Leo's (KitGuruTech) test, where he says that stock on this board is actually auto overclocked with extra power consumption and heat as a result. He stated it was actually very difficult to get a 2700x to run stock on this board.

So could you have an M.2 raid with the GPU in x8 for working and then a SATA ssd to boot from for gaming - the GPU would get the full bandwidth then?

7:00-9:30 hu, wha? what is this lanes stuff and how am i losing 8 lanes by using a second nvme? how do you even determine the number of "lanes"? is that the number of threads? so lost right now.

Despite the fact it must get "painfully old" answering some of these "decision" questions... X470 Crosshair VII Hero (no-wifi - don't care) VS Prime X570 at the SAME price. Which? Prime X570-P is a completely baron yet has the same VRM as Maximus 11 Hero. Your time and consideration is appreciated.

This really is long overdue to review the class leading board for x470.

You can do nvme raid on X370 Crosshair VI Hero and X370 Crosshair VI Extreme too, just need pcie to m2 card.

12:00 Can you just label everything because the short flashes are hard to see.

Do you think it would be a good idea to buy this board. planning on swapping out a 2700x for a 3700x when it comes out?

Open. That. Damn. Fricking. Doooooooooor! That is a hell of a trigger in that background music. Doorbell of hell! :D

The bottom m.2 run off the x470 chipset and the top runs only from the cpu. If u use the top m.2 it reduces the top pci-e slot to 8x from 16x. You failed to mention that.

Do you try overclock using Performance Boost Overdrive? How far it may boost, compare to standard OC

So if I got a 2700x and I could get a crosshair hero VI for 139 or a VII for 239... Which should I go with? Worried that no one else is talking 6 vs 7. Not a single video online comparing the two.

what motherboard is better this one or ASROCK AMD X470 Taichi?

Anyone know the soundtrack name? It sounds(the chime) like an inspired/remix of some song from the 90s.

How long does the bios take to boot into windows?

how do i turn off the Q-LED on this motherboard?

i have this board. And i am a little bit "lost" xD ... i am searching for the function to keep the Ryzen 7 3700x at 65W ... thought it was at PBO Settings ... here i can set a Limit of 65W .... but when i start Prime95 i reach 100W ... someone could help me ?

Let´s hear it for The tweaks and stuff!

I still rock a crosshait V formula Z. I'd need a lotto win to buy this.

I have my mind made up for this MB after days of research, the CPU of choice will be a 6 Core Ryzen 5 3rd Gen or the Ryzen 8 Core 3900x. The PSU will be a DeepCool DQ750m. Im only a bit uncertain about the RAM of choice since this MB uses Daisy-Topology, not sure on that one though. I read that the T- Topology in the C7H was actually faded out, whatever that means ? From my understanding it depends on the CPU, 3rd. Gen are daisies. :) Can somebody help out which RAM is best, for Gaming with high frequencies and which for the ECC side although not really needed with DDR4? Thatll be awesome!

I been trying to figure out some freezing issues with this board. To this point i have tested all from my SSD and HD also graphics card memory mostly all i can think off to test. I have even reinstall my windows 10 pro 3 times to check if is a issue with windows. The problem i get is a freeze that will last 8 to 9 seconds before going back to normal. At this freezing point my monitor and all will freeze and can't do nothing till the freeze stop. I notice the hard disk led (hd _led) light will stay on solid till the freeze ends then goes back to normal blinking. I try all to try to determined the issue but nothing has work. At this point i don't know if is the board or hd or ssd which i know it can't be cause i have tested them and all has come out okay. This is a great board i just wish mine didn't have this issues when i bought it. The computer i build is a brand new build just build it at the ends of june of this year and been using it since then. If any of you have run into this issue and know the cause it i would love feed back on how to fix it thanks.

Thanks Man! 10+!

Any chance of video on using windows built in sftp server / client ?

How is this motherboard working in Ubuntu?, cheers from Costa Rica!

Slick Morty engagement reporting!

Will it support working ecc ram?? Please tell the ram u using ...

I have a Ryzen 7 2700 X, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB, and I keep getting the error code F9 & 0D... it won’t post so I can’t even get into the BIOS to update it.... I need help!

It seems like a lot of people are having issues with the wifi version. but then again I dunno why spend more money on the wifi version. You can just buy the normal version and then just buy a cheap wifi module connected via usb that does not need drivers. Also, Team Group's Dark Pro series of Memory that uses Samsung B-Die (Rare nowadays) seems to be very compatible with Ryzen and easily gets 3200MHz at CL 14, 3466 at CL16, 3866 at CL18 if my memory serves me right. Just search : Team Group Dark Pro 8Pack edition 3200MHz CL 14 and you will see all of his Ram modules that utilizes the very rare Samsung B-Die Memory which apparently is the best memory you can ever find/use versus other Memory manufactures like Hynix etc. But then again, 16GB of said ram cost £218 lol £199 with the discount that they had 3 days ago.

Great review. I want to return to AMD (held out on my old 8-core for as long as I could, but was forced to upgrade to the dark side), but I simply cannot buy right now (out of work).

have an Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z Intel Z68 Motherboard with an i7-2600K running at 4200MHz with 2 x Asus GTX 770's. I have had 8 years of stability running Linux and this sounds like a good board to build a new system from. Is there anything worth noting when going from an Intel set up to AMD?

Love the board, hate the fact we can't run sata-raid when the OS is installed on an NVME :/

how much temp vrm during render or stress test?

Have this board, it's great but they did have an issue with one bios version that would cause any fans plugged into the board to not function. After updating I have had no issues with it.

ECC RAM at 2933? What the dickens are you saying I can have ECC and performance?

I will probably get this mobo cuz of 1. It's ASUS! 2. its got a little led display ON THE BOARD itself! 3. I like the fact that it's got a 1 button overclocking feature! 4. the ROG logo on the board is RGB!

ASRock Taichi Ultimate or this one?

Planning to make my very first PC build with a 2000 dollar budget. I'm thinking of going with this motherboard alongside the Ryzen 7 2700x

2:39 I gasped or had what some call a nedgasm.

Does the ryzen 5 2600x good with asus rog crosshair vii

Does ist Support gskill trident c14?

saying you dont need a 2k series ryzen for the board to work and a 500w power supply being more THAN ADEQUATE????????????????? you have such a powerful MOBO as well as CPU and a fairly high end AIO cooler inside a phenomenal case but yet you have standard psu cables and RAM without heat spreaders???????????? please seek assistance

How is the wifi on this board?

Still not as sexy as the CHFIV, but I like it. The pricing actually seems fairly reasonable for what it is.

Thanks for covering Linux on this board

What is that music on backround?. awesome!

hello, I'm considering this Mobo, was wondering does it have auto overclocking for us lazy asses

Would this board be good with the 3700X?

Lol I put my CH7 in a fractal meshify C too 🤣🤣🤣. It is on a 240 rad on the top too. Nice choice 👍

Can this board underclock Noctua fans? I run my NF-F12 at about 130RPM with a Gigabyte board. Is that possible with this one? The Gigabyte board is a bit buggy on this, and the underclock only works, after a calibration using the windows fan tool provided by Gigabyte. After that, all that is needed is to the bios. But can Asus do the same?

I own this mobo and nothing to complain specially when Overclocking. But what I dont like is the their latest bios and its not quite stable, u might stay away from the latest bios.

Is this board still worth it today? I bought it for $170 new. I haven’t installed it yet. Should i return it for a x570 board ?

Most important question. can you remove the stupid plastic shroud without losing IO shield.

I'm currently purchasing parts for a new pc build. Processor is Ryzen 7 2700x. What board should I go for X470 AORUS GAMING 7 wifi or ASUS X470 ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO ?

liquid nitrogen 2 mode? N2 is the chemical formula of nitrogen

I am going to buy this board to pair with my Ryzen 7 2700x.

You should had bought the ASROCK "TAICHI ULTIMATE" version

Question will a 700wat psu be good to run 2700x with gtx 1050ti... As i dont do overclocking and i am going to get this motherboard.

Is X470's better RAM support better than X370 for R7 1700 make difference ? (Common processor, different chipset)

I put latest bios with ages a 1.0.0.6 and windows reboot constantly, try to put stable voltage but nothing help

Will this work with a Ryzen 5 3600 out of the box?

Need building advice! I’m an artist that will be doing both 4k video and 3D rendering. I know the best stuff is going to give me the best performance but I don’t know if anything would be considered overkill. I will be using Maya, Adobe Suite, and Unity mostly.

Dang $277 for this board

Can i run third nvme in middle x16 port and create three disk raid 0 on it?