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Almost a year ago I got an Asus Crosshair VI Hero motherboard (non-WiFi). Why? It was on sale at BestBuy for $200 with a free Ryzen 5 1600. So I bought it. I've been using a TP Link PCI WiFi adapter to access WiFi. Since I am still coming to understand what each bit of this amazing motherboard does, I noticed there was an m.2 slot for WiFi. Since I don't know much about m.2 WiFi cards, can anyone here point me in the direction of instructional resources to know the difference between m.2 WiFi cards, and to know which cables / antenna mounts to get for it? For reference, the maximum internet speeds I receive where I am is 40 Mb/s down, 6 Mb/s up. So I don't need an m.2 WiFi card, but I want one to free up PCI space on the motherboard. Thanks in advance! -Darkroe

Hi I'm new here and I need your help. I got an Asus Crosshair vi Hero, along with my R7 1700 non X. For cooling I use my trusty Noctua NH-D15. Problem is that in the BIOS my CPU temps are displayed differently than in Aida64, Ryzen Master and Asus AI suite by some really strange differences, BIOS: 20°C Aida64: 43°C Ryzen Master: 13-15°C AI Suite: 14°C Along that Ryzen Master and AI Suite also report wrong clockspeeds, since in the BIOS I've set them to 3000MHz Ryzen Master: 3200MHz AI Suite: 3200MHz CPU Z: 3200Mhz Windows: 3000MHZ Need Help Very Thanks

Hi, I have a 1800x combined with a Crosshair VI Hero (1002 BIOS Ver.) from ASUS. The CPU is watercooled with an Corsair 280mm H115i. I noticed temperatures that should be MUCH LOWER in my BIOS. Similar to the 20 Degree offset in Ryzen Master (Software). I was seeing temps as high as 58 Degrees only in the BIOS! (btw: My 1800x is Clocked to 4 Ghz and 1.35 Volts (goes up to 1.39 for whatever reason) In Ryzen Master my Temps idle at 38 degrees... Can this be solved?

I am upgrading my pc to Ryzen. I have got the Asus Crosshair VI Hero and my psu is Thermaltake 750w EVO Blue 2.0 The board has an 8 and 4 pin port to power cpu but my psu only has one EPS/cable with 8 pin socket. I have an adapter cable from a previous evo psu I had which is female 8 pin one end and 8 + 4 pin male on the other. All plugs fit into the board. Question is can I run both the 8 pin and 4 pin cpu power via the one cable with one EPS. Does the board & cpu need to two separate EPS from the psu to avoid over loading/allow different currents similtaneously? I understand the second 4 pin is for extreme overclocking. I Would ideally not want to upgrade psu if I can avoid it.

Most liked platform for me was AMD Dragon. I was surprised at 2010 after the launch AMD Phenom II X6. Yes, its 7 years ago, memories...Today we have new Crosshair motherboard. Sixth generation named Crosshair VI Hero. Everything what you need to know about Crosshair VI Clock generator is great info for us! Motherboard - new Crosshair It was more clear, I must have some Ryzens and this motherboard. I was in silence, first BIOSes was not ideal and BIOS chip at my board was broked. Ryzen 7 1800X is my AIO rig. But I bought also Ryzen 5 1500X and Ryzen 7 1700X. And have borrowed 1700 non X + 1600. I tested quickly only 1800X and 1700X, a little 1500X. The main benchtable PC - 1800X inside and Crosshair with Alphacool Eisbaer cooling. Type of DRAM Im using HyperX Savage, Corsair Dominators Vengeance or TridentZ from GSkill. Unfortunatelly, all kits are not B-die. My favourite BIOS for this board are 1001 and 1002. Whats inside the box? Many good stickers :), SATA cabels, ROG SLI HB bridge, coaster for drink etc., discount for sleeve PSU cables, RGB extension cable, installing DVD, paper manual and IO cover This is perfect inovation. Crosshair VI Hero has holes for AM3 and AM4 brackets :). The board has solid digital power circuit, which is including phases for CPU=vcore+SOC part. In blue is it digi controlled 2 phases for DRAMs. Remember, if you are use Ryzen, it has 16x PCIe 3.0 links for GPUs and extra 4 directly for M.2 NVMe discs. Others PCIe are 2.0 and interconected with Promontory FCH chipset. SupremeFX with latest ALC1120A codec, some Japanese cappacitors, ampfs and separated lines in PCB Nice designed pasive of PCH. The board looks like really nice, similar as Maximus IX Hero sister. M.2 port is almost bottom, its smart, because its not between SLI/CF slots for GPUs. NVMe M.2 discs are a bit hot, specially in 512GB or higher capacity Ryzen is supporting up to 64 GB DDR4 memory (A2+B2 are primary slots). Ussually you can use 3200 MHz, but at this Crosshair board its possible to get around 3600 MHz or higher for some benchmarks! But you must change BCLK and 2400/2666 MHz in BIOS Near the 24-ATX pin on the left you can see modern front USB3.1. In this area are measuring points of voltage. And post display. OC part is at the bottom. Its change against Common opinion. I think, its better to have it on upper the right corner. Reason? If I will use for extreme OC last PCIe, after I have not good access to the buttons. At photo you can see classic START, small reset, safe and retry buttons, LN2 jumper and slow mode switch. Everything what the extreme overlcockers need to be happy. The board has support for ROG OC panels. And for casemoders there are also two RGB connectors. IO part, so many USB ports, including 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1 :-D I like it. But one PS2 could be here also. Function buttons are BIOS flashback and clear CMOS. Stock vs OC AIO cooled benchmarks I tested only few benchmarks. But you can see big impact in IPC for AMD. Compared it with FX-8370 in table. I did also quick stable OC for 30min in AIDA. I got 4074 MHz with Ryzen 7 1800X. Benchmarks are doable at 4100 MHz also. Crosshair IV Formula + AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE and LN2 Few days ago I was at dealers day as ROG overclocker. I wanted test my favourite platform AMD Phenom II and new Ryzen. I started with old one, with Thuban. I must say, it was really fun and I used non tweaked Windows 7 for it. Kingpins thermal paste for LN2. Its better than I thought. Isolation with old classic method and many papers. I used also OC panel for read the temperatures and PCI post card into the motherboard. Temperatures minus 186C was the max on sensor via OC Panel. Time for some results. The cores of CPU was similar, the best cores was first, third and fifth. So for some benchamrks I could use mix of 5900 and 5800 MHz :), example for Cinebenh R11.5. I was a bit disappointed from Superpi, I thought, this CPU could be 6500+ MHz chip, but it not happens... Wprime 1024M and 32M Cinebench R11 and R15 Superpi Geekbench Max clock ( I had almost 6500 Mhz, but file is corupted) That was my Thuban And Chew* has the right in this case. This sample is really great on AIR, but only good at LN2...My 1100T BE is with LN2 better extra 300 MHz. Still, it was fun and most of liters was consumed by Thuban :)¨ AMD Ryzen 7 1700X and LN2 For Ryzen, I have not much LN2. Next time I will start with Ryzen and not with oldschool platform Ryzen setup was almost the same, I changed only OC panel for OC Panel II And I started with Cinebench R11.5. I found some interesting things. The CPU scaling very well with low voltage. I dont know, if is it normal, or abnormal with Ryzens. Example -120C, 1.44V and 4800 MHz Cinebench R11.5. I was surprised with this. Of course, the best way is start with lower BCLK and 2666 MHz RAMs, specially with low temperatures at CPU/SOC part. But I tried step by step temps down and the lowest CPU/SOC voltage. Few times I got something as coldbootbug. If I was at -180 C at sensor and working in WIndows, everything was perfect. But if crashed it, I got code for CPU. If I warmed pot up to -150C, CPU was alive and booted But sometimes crashed CPU at the same temperatures around -180C and rebooted at -180C also...I dont know what exactly happens. It was my first experience with Ryzen and LN2... Step by step I jumped up to 1.488V and last one nitrogen in thermos. 4950 MHz Cinebench R11.5 passed After I was without LN2 and temps goes up...So time for Superpi. -srry without better DRAM clocks and DRAM timings - it was dry run without LN2 Ryzen was fun also, after few first experience and issues at start I was much smarter. Repetation of Ryzen in next 2-3 weeks guys! Hold my fingers! Il need it.

I have just finished a new build consisting of: ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero motherboard G.Skill Flare.X 3200 MHz RAM NZXT Kraken X62 AIO CPU Cooler Gigabyte AORUS 1080 Ti Graphics Card After checking all my connections it was time to apply power. Quietly it began and ran through the post codes like a champ. Until it got to 48. Then it stopped and that's where it is staying. The manual does not list a Q-Code of 48 so I'm in the dark on that. I tried checking my graphics card seat and that seems fine. I loosened a bit the cooler on the CPU just to be sure I wasn't applying too much pressure. I've tried hooking my graphics cable to HDMI1 and to HDMI2 on the graphics card - nothing there changes either. This is a brand new build with brand new parts. The CPU ok light is on at the top of the motherboard and the 48 just stares at me. I have one NVME M.2 512GB SSD, one mSATA SSD card 850 EVO 512 GB, and my primary drive will be the 850 EVO 512GB SSD. Obviously I have yet to install an operating system or even to update the BIOS to the latest version. Does anyone have any suggestions on what the 48 might be or which area I might isolate for this problem? Ideas will be appreciated. THE SOLUTION I got nothing until I pressed the clear CMOS button and used only one stick of RAM. Then I updated the BIOS - the original was in there from March of 2017. Kinda old for this board. Took a while to figure that one out. After updating I adjusted the frequency of the RAM, added all four sticks for a total of 32GB and installed Windows 10 Pro without incident. So far everything appears to be working. Tomorrow I tackle the graphics card. I do not expect problems. Thank you all for helping. It really took all the answers to make it work.

Hi,so I finished my build, and until I make few modifications to the case I can't use my H110i (doesn't fit in mastercase maker 5t)but my question is, when I power up my PC the AMD wraith cooler and the ROG motherboard RGB lights go in perfect sync, right after bios and before windows logon screen they go out of sync and the AMD cooler looses the blue spectrum, showing only red and kind of dimmed green (very low light) what is happening? does anyone know? yesterday when I updated the system software wise it went back again, but today when I started the system the same thing has happened. also ROG AURA does not recognize the header, I've tried both headers and it is connected accordingly (arrow to the 12V) if needed I can provide a video, thanks

Recently I manage to put a system together with fresh new parts, but I am having an issue with posting. I get a Green LED on my C6H with the Q Code 0D. My monitor is plugged to the GPU with a DVI cable and there is no display or the message for going into the BIOS. I tried the bios flashback with the latest bios on my usb flashdrive, but i don't know if that did anything. Parts are : R5 1600X Cryorig H5 Ultimate Crosshair VI Hero 2x8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 Samsung 850 EVO 500gb Asus GTX 1080ti strix Seasonic Focus plus gold 750w psu

Hi, So I've stumbled to a minor difficulty, I have a CM MasterCase Maker 5t and currently I have 6fans, 3 in front as intake, 1 as exhaust and 2 for the Corsair h110i radiator. In the current setup I have it connected as this: (sorry for the lame MS paint skills I didn't install photoshop yet) So apparently #6 (below crosshair headspreader) is the chassis fan header 1, I haven't connected anything to it, since the location is awkward, only if I would put the cable under the headspreader somehow, which I have no idea how Connector 1 is CPU_OPTIONAL, 2 is CPU main and 3 is AIO pump (which I am currently connected to, but AI Suite doesn't recognize it, it works, but I can't set anything) Connector 4 is where I have my fans connected, but only the front fans, they're daisychained a PWM splitter goes from the header and then from one of the Y split another PWM splitter (from noctua) currently it works but I don't know if all fans get full power this way (I'm a noob at this) lastly the #5 header is not good, as I had one of my front fans connected to it and it went on full power all the time, and I couldn't set it anywhere. My question is, is it ok to leave it as it is or should I somehow manage the routings and connections, should I switch the AIO fan header from AIO to CPU? Thanks

I got the crosshair hero vi (don't ask why) but it has both 4 pin and 8 pin eps connector ports. So, do I need to plug in both or just 8 pin would do the job? My processor is Ryzen 5 1600X.

Hi, Does anyone know why suddenly the back bottom row of USB 3.0 have stopped working? As in whatever I plug in gets power but not data transfer? Same goes for the front USB 3.0, not sure for the 2.0 as I haven't tested them but the bottom row used to work fine, the PC is about a month old, what I did, was that I was tweaking in the BIOS OC-ing CPU and DRAM and I don't know if that happened before or after the tweaking. CPU spec: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7VpHcc I'm going to contact ASUS aswell but at this very moment I have to go to work thanks for the replies

Hey LLT Forum, I've recently got a Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5. It's feature rich with USB DAC-UP support and the Fan Hybrid system. However, Gigabyte has recently released a BIOS which reportedly fried some Ryzen CPUs. Also, their Smart Fan 5 has been very buggy, with it not opening for a few days, until I rerolled back to a previous version. Gigabyte support has been somewhat unhelpful. Their RGB Fusion software is crap, since it can't even detect their GTX 1060 Aorus Xtreme Edition GPU. I had problems with it not detecting the Vengeance RGB RAMs as well. Now when I got the RAM RGB working, it's terribly unsynced with the mobo RGB. Still unable to sync it with the GPU. I've been looking at the Crosshair VI Hero to replace the Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5 with it. However looking at its specs, I've noticed that it has only one internal USB 3.1 header. It also has only 1 external USB 3.1 Gen 2 header, while the Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5 has 3. Also, the Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5 has Hybrid Fan headers, and does the C6H have that as well? Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5 has an RGBW 5 pin connector, while the C6H has 2 normal 4 pin RGB connectors. There is a 5 pin RGB_LED_STRIP, so can that be used for RGBW? TL;DR Is it worth it to upgrade from the Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K5 to the C6H? What's your experience with Aura Sync? What makes the C6H so much more expensive that the GA-AX370 Gaming K5?

Sooooo, this build is going to be the death of me. Just got my new AIO in, the NZXT Kraken x62 rev 2. Well the pump is so big that the water tubes will not clear the last RAM stick. So unless I'm missing something, the Kraken is not compatible with the C6H if you are populating all Dim slots. I figured I'd post this up incase anyone else had run into this issue or just incase I am overlooking something, which is completely possible because I'm already super frustrated with this thing. I realize the pump should still work fine mounted up side down, but I'm pretty sure that means the logo will be upside down =-/ Not so good for my OCD. ....

Hi, I was considering to buy an Asus Crosshair VI Hero in place of the AsRock x370 Taichi, for RAM compatibility issues. The only thing is that the Asus one doesn't have a Wireless Card... I read that I can put a wireless card in the M.2 slot, but the problem is that I need that M.2 slot for the storage. Can I put a good wireless card somewhere else? Can you guys suggest me a good wireless card? Thank you in advance

Hi guys!! Do you guys have any idea on why my Ryzen 5 1600X is idling at 60-65 degrees? It goes above 70 degrees on simple usage like watching videos. Is it because of the 20 degree offset or is it something else? PS- I am using a Kraken X62 and crosshair vi hero. I have updated the BIOS to the latest version. Thanks!!

So, another computer problem stemming from my motherboard, but this one's a kicker. Asus Crosshair VI Hero CPU: Ryzen 7 1800x RAM: Corsair LPX DDR4-3000 32GB, (17-15-15-35) GPU: Vega 64 LC In total, the computer is about 2 years old and it started having random crashes. It started with post code 8, and would flash a yellow light. I looked around and couldn't find anyone crashing mid-game with the same errors. I ended up swapping my vega through RMA, and the problem continued. Memtest86 told me the RAM was fine, and seatools tells me my HDD is fine. I decided to update the bios from version 0902 to 7002. I went through the bios EZ update utility, updating from my flash drive. It said the process was complete and restarted the computer. I got an error code E1 with a solid red light. The computer now does not boot. I tried to do a bios flashback, and that too does not work. The ROG lighting is working, and my keyboard is getting USB power. Not sure what's going on. I called ASUS and they couldn't tell me what was wrong, so I decided to ask here. My goal here is to get the bios flashback working, to load version 7002 or 6903. I used both FAT and FAT32 for the flashback, got a solid light both times. Renamed the bios to C6H.CAP, it didn't work either. File is placed in the correct directory. Any ideas?

Hi, Well I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard (actually Gigabyte AX370M Gaming 3) and RAM (RAM I have already decided which one to buy) and I had a lot of doubts because there was the occasion to get a very monster motherboard that is X370 chipset and it is Asus Crosshair VI Hero, it is cheaper than many B450 where I live, so I prefer to come here and ask for your opinion. I keep an eye on which one I get? Asus Crosshair VI Hero (147$) Asus Crosshair VII Hero (283$) Asus X470-F (230$) I thought a lot about Crosshair VI Hero because it has always been a consumer dream and it is now for a very nice price (147$ on my country), it is very cheap for what it is, maybe in the future I will use with a Ryzen 5 3600, but I will only buy it next year or more because now their price is still too high. I know C6H use X370 Chipset and the X470-F and C7H use X470 Chipset, who cames with a lot of optimizations on the Chipset, like better memory RAM compatibility, better VRM's and more technologies (StoreMI and others). Questions: Worth pay the double for a newer chipset with some new technologies? The C6H BIOS is good for Ryzen 3000? The C6H have PBO and XFR2? The C6H have BIOS issues? I remember my Crosshair V Formula-Z (gift with an FX 8320 given last year) had BIOS support for 3 years (2012-2015) so I think Asus will always support C6H.