ASUS Crosshair VI Hero AM4 Motherboard Review

Test Setup

ASUS X370 Crosshair VI Hero
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Corsair LPX 2666MHz
Corsair LPX 3000MHz
Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2
nVidia GTX 980
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H110i GT
Corsair ML Fans

Overclocking

We’ve got two CPUz shots for you today. The first is a clear indication of the overclocking potential within the Crosshair VI. It sadly wasn’t quite stable enough to get through every one of our benchmarks, although it was close, but it’s still easily the biggest overclock we’ve obtained on our 1800X so far. Volts are still a bit wild on all boards because of the way the AMD CPU’s control the volts via a VID Offset although we are pretty sure once BIOS matures vendors will find a way around this. Its feels a bit rushed with ALL brands because it is, it turns out AMD didnt give them much chance to get things sorted, its a complicated story for a lengthy video rather than a novel here.

The bottom screenshot is the overclock that is 24/7 stable and will be the basis for our overclocking tests today. The real big flagship feature is unquestionably the BCLK overclocking which not only pushed our CPU a little further but really unleashed the DDR4 speeds into levels that we’d usually expect to find on a X99 motherboard. Excellent stuff. Memory is still hit and miss, again down to the way things rely on code from AMD with memory compatibility. However with a lot of f’in about and searching though all of our kits we found one that everything liked and managed to push the boundaries a little too. 3200MHz is so yesterday. We managed 3333Mhz – Bosh.