ROG Crosshair X670E Hero Overview

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[Vincent-tzjl]

Just a heads up for anyone who buys this board, I had to update the BIOS before I could run D.O.C.P stable, even with my meagre 5600M/T kit. Just make sure you do that before overclocking your RAM - other than that I've had a completely stable experience.

[cameronbracken]

FYI, The title of the video and the board that Wendell shows in person is the "Crosshair X670E Hero" but the board shown as an image a few times is the "Crosshair X670E Extreme". The Hero is ATX and the Extreme is EATX and costs more.

[GlennBerrySQL]

The second PCIe slot only has PCIe 5.0 x4 if the second PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot (that is connected to the CPU) is populated. The primary PCIe slot goes down to x8, while the second PCIe slot and the second both get PCIe 5.0 x4.

[BWTHeuSeD]

That physical switch for PCIe 3.0 is a life saver for using older riser cables.

If you have a slot that supports PCIe 4.0/5.0, a card that also supports PCIe 4.0/5.0, but a riser that supports PCIe 3.0, the handshake will fail and the card won't be detected. This was a huge problem in the SFF community trying to pair Ryzen 5000 with RX 6000 or RTX 3000, since PCIe 4.0 risers were initially pretty rare.

[michaelthompson]

Having “Dip Swithces” for PCI-E levels for 2/3/4 …. reminds me of the good old days of FSB Dip Switches determining 33/66/100/133 FSB on older AMD and Cyrix CPUs 👍🥰

[isbestlizard]

I love that every CPU has a basic GPU! I can run a desktop on the CPU and pass through my GPU to vms so easy!!!

[Kenjis]

Just ordered mine earlier today. I got $70 off on it which pushed me over the edge to getting it. Expensive? Yes. But I'm fine with it. The USB 4 will be nice to have

[cris_stn]

I don't understand how such an expensive Motherboard comes with a 2.5 Gbit lan port and not 10 Gbit.

[GewelReal]

BIOS Flashback being default makes me feel warm inside. Love it!

[Methodical]

Questions.
1. Are you saying it's best to get DDR5 memory Expo memory cards to eliminate startup issues?
2. Is 32 gb memory a good standard or is 64 gb memory better? In addition to gaming, I do a lot of photo editing using Lightroom, photoshop, Topaz and other photo editing software.
3. I plan to run 1x 3080Ti and a 2Tb M2. How will this affect those PCIe lanes. Which M2 slot is best to use? Need clarification on this. Thanks...

[AtMichuhl]

I only bought this board because the ASUS board I had picked out was backordered for like 2 months. This is way overkill for what I will use it for, but I hope it serves as a good platform for future upgrades in my new system.

[zorbakaput]

As good as X670 and Zen 4 is the price hike is mind bending.
I told a friend of mine to wait for Zen4 and he wanted an Asus Strix X670E gaming wifi (because he likes the X570E board I have. We are in Australia and the X570E Gaming Wifi II is selling for $449AU (I paid $479 last year). The Price of the X670E Gaming Wifi ? $949AU. I nearly fell off my chair and that is without DDR5 memory. How did they work that pricing out? I think both AMD and Intel are in for a lean new year (at least at Aussie prices)

[noenken]

7:40 Actually, why don't PSUs have a USB terminal? Cases could have "it can charge your phone" as a feature, even have a Qi charger in the top or something.

[AvradeepPatra]

There r 24 pcie 5.0 lanes. 16 for GPU & 8 for 2 gen5 m.2. The 16 lanes can b divided among primary & secondary x16 slots. Each x16 slot will then have 8 gen 5 lanes. This is my understanding.

[TheAIEpiphany]

Hey, nice overview! Question: can I fit 2 RTX 3090 there? As far as I understand they'd be using x8 PCIe lanes each. My only fear is the clearance - does it have enough physical space (ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR motherboard seems very tight this one looks a bit better)?

Also I'm reading through the manual and trying to figure out whether it is possible to have 2 GPUs (8x mode) and 2 NVMe M.2 SSDs (x4)? That'd use up all 24 PCIe lanes from my CPU.
Placing the SSD in M.2_1 slot shouldn't interfere with the 8x dual GPU setup, but my fear is if I add another SSD will that force the GPUs into the 4x mode?

[OhItsThat]

Little confused. We taking the Crosshair or the Extreme? Showing pictures of both.

[larrystover]

Before you add anything to the board bench test by putting just the 24 connector and then add the bios USB turn the power on and wait to see if the blue light starts blinking. That is what I had to do to get the board to recognize the bios update. I wish I would have done this it is an easy thing to do. Now I have to see if there are more issues to come. onward and up more testing each added component.

[StenIsaksson]

One problem with Windows own software RAID in the disk manager is that you need to have the disks as dynamic disks and dynamic disks don't support TRIM
I discovered this when the build in RAID on the motherboard only support 4 SATA drives because the 2 extra ports is on a different controller chip.
I tried to do the software RAID with all 6 SATA drives, but found out the lack of TRIM support.
You can't use only SSD's with Storage Spaces either. You need mechanical drives and then use the SSD's as cache drives.

[aphysically]

Are you able to test if thunderbolt 4 works on this motherboard? As far as I can tell it's completely unanswered online if the thunderbolt 4 controllers Asus is using for USB4 support in these motherboards is having the thunderbolt 4 portion disabled in the BIOS, or if they just aren't advertising the support.

[TheAIEpiphany]

What's the thing with 42 "error" code? I saw your display always converging towards it. Is it just an easter egg stuff? (I'm getting the same thing - didn't yet update the BIOS - not sure whether it has anything to do with that)