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Asus announces 2 X370 boards: ROG Crosshair VI Hero and X370 Prime

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Asus has finally unveiled 2 high end AM4 boards: 

  • Asus ROG Crosshair VI Hero
  • Asus X370 Prime

TLDR:

Crosshair Hero features:

  • High End SupremeFX audio
  • Built in AC Wifi
  • M.2 and USB 3.1 support
  • NO rear display IO from the looks of it
  • RGB Lighting and 2 LED headers
  • 2 Way SLI and 3 way Crossfire
  • Auto and manual overclocking support

X370 Prime features@

  • Isolated audio (not as high end as SupremeFX though)
  • M.2 and USB 3.1 support
  • RGB Lighting and 1 LED header
  • 2 Way SLI and 3 way Crossfire
  • Auto and manual overclocking support

First up, the higher end Crosshair board:

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Prime X370:

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More boards to come:

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Source:

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/asus_has_announced_their_crosshair_vi_hero_am4_motherboard/1

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Does prime comes with any light? 

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Hmph. I wonder when we'll see one that has a PLX Bridge so that it supports 4 way crossfire. RIP 4 way SLI.

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Cool.

 

I have to say that i´m personally not really blown away by the specs of the am4 chipsets in general.

However i can´t wait to take a closer look to these new boards, and doin some vrm circuitry analytics on them.

I´m pretty much more interested in that.

The feutures of the am4 platform in general arent really that innovative.

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2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Hmph. I wonder when we'll see one that has a PLX Bridge so that it supports 4 way crossfire. RIP 4 way SLI.

Well technically you dont need a PLX to run 4 way crossfire cos it only requires PCI X4. 

But a PLX would be cool if they do release a flagship ROG Extreme or WS board. Would set them apart from the competition 

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2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Hmph. I wonder when we'll see one that has a PLX Bridge so that it supports 4 way crossfire. RIP 4 way SLI.

Should support it by default, no? 24 lanes from the CPU, 8 from the chipset for a total of 32. I know that the chipset lanes are 2.0, not 3.0, but I don't know what impact this has on SLI. Unless you are just trying to bench, 4 way SLI is just dead. Nvidia stopped officially supporting it for games, and scaling has never been good for 4 cards anyways. That, and PEX8747 isn't cheap, lol.

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Good to see that Asus didn't go full on the gamery look.

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And apparently, Ryzen and AM4 support Win 7 according to: 

So that's me sold.

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DO I SEE PCI SLOTS IN 2016 2017? WUT?

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1 minute ago, asim1999 said:

Well technically you dont need a PLX to run 4 way crossfire cos it only requires PCI X4. 

But a PLX would be cool if they do release a flagship ROG Extreme or WS board. Would set them apart from the competition 

plus IMO x4 pcie 3.0 might begin to be a little low in terms of bandwidth. Plus if you want to put in other things (which I'd assume you'd want to do if you have 4 way crossfire, probably m.2 drives and maybe other stuff like a 10gig network card or something) you'd need to extra lanes.

2 minutes ago, MageTank said:

Should support it by default, no? 24 lanes from the CPU, 8 from the chipset for a total of 32. I know that the chipset lanes are 2.0, not 3.0, but I don't know what impact this has on SLI. Unless you are just trying to bench, 4 way SLI is just dead. Nvidia stopped officially supporting it for games, and scaling has never been good for 4 cards anyways. That, and PEX8747 isn't cheap, lol.

See above :) 

 

It's kinda just an enthusiast thing I guess. Probably doesn't matter that much for us for the most part, but it'd be nice to be able to at least have enough for x8/x8+2 m.2 drives and maybe a little more stuff like more usb ports through pcie lanes or a 10gig network card.

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4 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

And apparently, Ryzen and AM4 support Win 7 according to: 

So that's me sold.

 

10 phase power design hmm interesting.

I'm currious to what AMD exally mean by that.

Because there are no true 10 phase pwm´s used on modern boards today.

But i suppose this will mean 4 phases doubled to 8 for main vcore.

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2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

plus IMO x4 pcie 3.0 might begin to be a little low in terms of bandwidth. Plus if you want to put in other things (which I'd assume you'd want to do if you have 4 way crossfire, probably m.2 drives and maybe other stuff like a 10gig network card or something) you'd need to extra lanes.

See above :) 

 

It's kinda just an enthusiast thing I guess. Probably doesn't matter that much for us for the most part, but it'd be nice to be able to at least have enough for x8/x8+2 m.2 drives and maybe a little more stuff like more usb ports through pcie lanes or a 10gig network card.

I don't know if it's a per-board issue, with the way they choose to wire the PLX bridges, but I personally wouldn't use an M.2 SSD with one. Latency was horrible on the Z97 classified when running multi-GPU. Learned the hard way that PLX doesn't do dissimilar multiplex, lol.

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6 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

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DO I SEE PCI SLOTS IN 2016? WUT?

Are you aware of what year it is? It is currentYear()

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Now show me the cosshair VI Formula.

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dunno did you see a PCI slot in 2016? :P 

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Is that 13 USB ports I see?! *drooools*

Looks pretty solid. Can't wait to see what they do with the SFF boards. Those are all I really care about.

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5 minutes ago, MageTank said:

I don't know if it's a per-board issue, with the way they choose to wire the PLX bridges, but I personally wouldn't use an M.2 SSD with one. Latency was horrible on the Z97 classified when running multi-GPU. Learned the hard way that PLX doesn't do dissimilar multiplex, lol.

Hm. Fair enough. Honestly I think it was a little bit shortsited to use 24 pcie lanes on Ryzen. Especially considering if it's meant to go against the likes of the 6850k and 6900k which have 40 pcie lanes. For most of us it probably doesn't matter, especially when we're buying 4 and 6 core CPUs, but if it's meant to compete at the enthusiast level they should have made it totally enthusiast, and IMO 24 lanes isn't enthusiast level.

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14 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

And apparently, Ryzen and AM4 support Win 7 according to: 

So that's me sold.

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23 minutes ago, Sintezza said:

 

10 phase power design hmm interesting.

I'm currious to what AMD exally mean by that.

Because there are no true 10 phase pwm´s used on modern boards today.

But i suppose this will mean 4 phases doubled to 8 for main vcore.

Doubled-up 5 phase probably. Or actually, that's really the only way you can have them. And they didn't say 10 phases for everything, so I can assume it's a 10+2 phase or something like that.

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1 hour ago, Sintezza said:

 

10 phase power design hmm interesting.

I'm currious to what AMD exally mean by that.

Because there are no true 10 phase pwm´s used on modern boards today.

But i suppose this will mean 4 phases doubled to 8 for main vcore.

 

I'm assuming the are counting the phases for the memory as well.

Basically, the typical 8+2 VRM system.

 

 

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