ASUS ROG X470 Crosshair VII Hero Review
Test Setup and Overclocking
Published: 19th April 2018 | Source: ASUS | Price: |
Test Setup
ASUS ROG X470 Crosshair VII Hero
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Corsair LPX 2666MHz
Corsair LPX 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2
nVidia GTX 980
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H110i GT
Corsair ML Fans
Overclocking
The AMD Precision Boost 2 does an excellent job of pushing a single thread as fast as it can go, so the majority of our overclocking efforts are spent on getting all eight cores of the Ryzen 7 2700X to achieve that speed, rather than going all out for a single thread of ludicrous speed. After all, the majority of users will utilise the full range of cores that the Ryzen 7 2700X brings to the party and having 8 cores at 4.2 GHz is better than one at 4.5 GHz and the rest at stock.
If you have some particularly beefy cooling and are willing to run your Ryzen 7 2700X a little warmer the ASUS Crosshair VII Hero gives you all the tools to really test the limits of your hardware. 4.3 GHz with 3600 MHz DDR4 is a big improvement upon the first generation Zen architecture.
Most Recent Comments
Quote@ 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 alsoQuote
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Originally Posted by 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.
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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.Quote
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