ASUS ROG Crosshair VII Hero WiFi Review - better than all the rest? 

Exactly sir

Too bad AMD chose not to include it with support for the new CPUs.

@@AraceaeFanatics Yeah its such a shame.

Well we might update this. Seems my Crosshair VII will get a Zen 3 chip.

@@Koeras16 its my understanding that it will run zen 2 (3rd gen amd chips), just with a bios update. Do you know if this is true? looking to purchase it for my ryzen 5 3600x build

Yup... this board is now $200 U.S. and absolutely a beast - the best deal on the market for cost v. performance

Im late bit thats what i did but my vega 64 is oc ed did you do yours

HWiNFO is unhappy monitoring the Crosshair VII Hero, seemingly due to Asus' use of Dual Intelligent Processors, or at any rate one of the extra controllers that Asus has added. By default HWiNFO won't monitor VRMs temps and when you enable monitoring the system becomes very unstable so while I actually used both HWMonitor and HWiNFO at different times the latter was not stable enough for reliable benhcmarking and would have given a false impression if used in the video.

HWinfo gives me a VRM reading. HWinfo seems cock-a-hoop monitoring my C7H. The people in the C7H overclocking thread at overclock.net are mostly using HWinfo and some of them really know what they're doing.

Mine does the Same CH7 + 2700X at stock or Auto OC settings the Vcore on the full 8 Core Load is lower than the single core loads... my combo gets 1.36+/- @ 4.175mhz to 4.2mhz and when on single core loads it gets something around 1.48v to 1.52v @ 4.35. So is not vdrop its just the CPU needing more Voltage to get that 4.35mhz on the cpu and needing less for the 4.175mhz.

No Motherboard will ever need that much power, even under LN2. We are talking about 720 Watt...

Leo here: Can I check that you're saying on your Crosshair VII Hero the VRMs heatsinks get hot to the touch and you have confirmed this yourself? on the review sample the heatsinks were barely above ambient.

That has to do with the Windows 10 April 2018 update. I've noticed it on both my pc's. It's not the mobo's, it's Windows.

It depends. If you use the regular release BIOS at stock clocks then no as it runs at a very low 1.25V. If you plan on overclocking and/or have the performance BIOS 8601 then yes, up to a point, but only to the extent of any overclocker. 2nd Gen Ryzen draws quite a lot of power and runs fairly hot. If you were to crank up the Performance Enhancer option and really push the CPU cores hard I could imagine you might hit problems in the long term. When all is said and done you're talking about a CPU that costs less than £300, rather than a £1650 Core i9 so the absolute worst case scenario isn't really all that bad.

Thanks for the response. I think I may not run that BIOS then, but go with 0601 as stated further down. I don't want over push the cpu as it will serve as my only gaming/streaming/rendering/design/everyday machine. I'm mainly interested in cranking my ram from 3200 to 3466 (maybe even 3600) while letting speed boost do its thing. I will be doing a custom water loop at some point while starting off with the Corsair H150i Pro. Overclocking seems fun, but the risks are there. :)

Leo here: Now that's a very good question. When I was sent that version of the BIOS by Asus I rather hoped they would offer it as a Beta so you could choose 0601 or 8601. I wonder now whether it shows how Asus is thinking about future BIOS releases. Because I was unsure what was going to happen I made a bit of a song and dance in the video about showing the BIOS versions clearly so there was no shady work. As you are a paying customer, why not ask Asus support that very question? feel free to link to the video and/or mention KitGuru and tell us how you get on.

The Asus are far better than the Gigabyte you mentioned X470 Asus Crosshair VII Hero or Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/8kqqw8/x470_asus_cros shair_vii_hero_or_gigabyte_aorus/

Probably the 2700x will bottleneck before this board, in terms of OC at least

Only reason I am considering it is Dual NVME. PCIE 4.0 I do not care about. I love the thought that people think overkill for dual NVME. I build operating systems and have over 100 Terabytes of space. Disk I/O is hard for me to turn my back on. Why not a Threadripper or Epyc? I would have to unload AMD stock to even think about that. Gen 3 Ryzen is just around the corner and would wake that board up.

Hi i just wondered what brand of ram your using i'm getting a replacement board the first would not let me install windows on any drive thanks

I am using Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4, CMK32GX4M2B3200C16. It's not on the QVL but it's working and I was able to over clock to 3400. Though realistically the performance gain over the 3200 speed is negligible. I originally started out with GSkill F4-3466C16D-16GSXW (4x8GB) at 3466 speed but I was having serious stability issues. I would boot fine but had a lot of crashes etc . If I dropped down to just 2x8GB for a total of 16GB I was fine with the GSkill 3466 (on the QVL but only for 2 dimms) but, I wanted 32GB. Fortunately I had the Corsair kit already so swapped it in instead and it just worked. After checking out der8auer's video "ASUS CROSSHAIR VII HERO - Everything You Need To Know! X470 In Depth Review" towards the end he explains memory compatibility and what speeds you can expect with SS or DS dimms and 2 or 4 dimms. It seems the max target speed I could have expected out of that GSkill kit 4 Single sided dimms was 3333 or minimum target of 3200. So I chose wrong with buying that particular GSkill kit for use on this board. You should check out that video if you haven't. Lots of good stuff like Leo has, about overclocking using the performance options in the bios vs traditional multiplier. Another good collaborating video is from Level1 Techs, "Story Time: Ryzen 2700x / 2600x Thoughts on Latency, Memory and Improvements" Good luck with the new board.

I think you should also make a video tutorial to that. Im subscribing lol

There are others who discuss the topic and are much more qualified than myself. Might I suggest taking a look at der8auer's video ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZRjoeyz4Z0.html ) about 11 minutes in is where he starts discussing over clocking and utilizing the XFR boosts vs manual over clocking. The whole video is really a deep dive into the board and I recommend watching the the who video, especially if you have one of these boards. Level1 techs also has a vid or two the one I am thinking of in particular I think its actually titled something along the lines of NVME raid ... but Wendell side tracks a bit discussing the Precision boot and performance enhancement features. If your looking to just do some old school over clocking Jayz 2cents also has a overclocking vid - all these sources have good information that you can apply. It's interesting to me anyway the different approach you can take with Ryzen plus and overclocking. Cheer's!

Wdym dont post?

@@seyan5390 doesn't boot

Leo here: I doubt Asus would be happy if I distributed copies of their BIOS files. Having said that, when I started testing with 8601 I had no idea they weren't going to make the thing available, at least as a Beta! I suggest you beat up their service dept. for a copy. I very much doubt the BIOS is the root of your particular problem. Have you tried using another drive or the other M.2 slot?

I strongly recommend that you review Wendell from 'Level1Techs' very informative video 'NVMe RAID on the Asus Crosshair Hero VII w/Ryzen 2700X Setup Guide' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QMfb_kmGLh0.html for further assistance with your query. I would also encourage you to watch Der8auer's excellent video 'ASUS CROSSHAIR VII HERO - Everything You Need To Know! X470 In Depth Review' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S0mR4IoNWkQ.html as this video contains some very detailed information but still offers the clearest explanation (with the use of a simple block-chart) on the PCIe lanes and distribution layout for the Asus Crosshair VII Hero motherboard.

So do you reccomend this motherboard?

Yes, I really love the board now that I got it dialed in. The issue, like many run into with Ryzen, was ram instability. I'm using 32GB of G.Skill B-die ram (2x16GB) and this particular set have been known to need more voltage than the stock profile but I was unaware of this at the time. So once I bumped them up to 1.4v and tightened the timings some more, I have had zero issues with crashing. Everything has been really rock solid since I ironed out all the gremlins.

Yes Absolute. You Can Highly Overclovk The Ryzen 2 and 1 gen

@@nukmanzhen8924 oh thanks. Is it not to overkill? Hehehe

@@seyan5390 Ofcourse Overkill Hahaha

@@seyan5390 Im planning to pair this board with Ryzen 7 3rd gen Hueheu

@@seyan5390 Of maybe go for X570 Mobo

Dragon Ball all day and all night yes, as long as it's AM4 socket you should be fine.

Yes, and I'm pretty sure you'd have to update your board if you are using a 1st gen ryzen cpu, so I'd recommend 2nd gen ryzen

Jason Bronzo only the other way around

I suppose I should have said plan on using, I can see the confusion

overclock for video rendering? makes no sense...

dubb well you obviously need to educate yourself on the benefits of overclocking.

@@dubb9020 Your name should be dumb instead of dubb... it makes PERFECT sense to OC a CPU and GPU for rendering, video and graphic applications, dumbass.

@@dubb9020 I have done video encoding, overclocking is a must have feature! I'm able to speed up the process and go through more videos.

I'm trying to figure out the same thing as well... as far as I can tell it is compatible but will require a bios update which can only be done with an older generation (1st or 2nd) amd chip. So in order to run 3rd gen, it will need to first be updated using an older chip. However, it seems it's possible that the manufacturer may have updated it previously before retail, meaning it would be 3rd gen ready out of the box. Not sure if this is the case, though.

@@ecregan95 I will be building it tomorrow, i'll let you know how it turns out

Aljon Borabo awesome. Good luck!

@@ecregan95 no all u need is anothrer pc and a usb stick

get this. asus bios is easier to read then taichi

Get the seven hero.

Seasonic Prime Titanium 1000W is plenty adequate. This is CPU testing and we were running below 250W, but even with the 1080Ti loaded we weren't drawing 500W.

Robin Ardis no. You should be looking at the ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero which is basically the same board just with the intel socket.

Thank you

C6H:- has TPM header. has 3D print mounts. has AM3 mount holes. 2 extra SATA ports. C7H:- 2 extra VRM phases for CPU. It is setup as 10 VCORE, 2 SOC, where as C6H is 8 VCORE, 4 SOC. Has port to allow use of ASUS Fan Extention board for more fan headers and temp probes. 256Mbit BIOS chip. ProbeIt voltage read points improved accuracy. Addressable RGB headers. 2x M.2 slots.