AMD Finally gets a ROG Extreme board! Asus ROG Crosshair Extreme Preview

Some may say a little late in the X570 timeline but nevertheless Asus has finally launched a ROG Extreme board for the AMD Ryzen platform!
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[@shadowr2d2]

The AMD Extreme motherboard.. This is a killer motherboard. I can’t wait for the full review. I love this Tech Channel..

[@DeerJerky]

ah yes, this will be perfect for my Ryzen 3 3100 and GT 1030

[@hellowill]

i'd love a ryze 3100 for my nas... no stock lmao

[@D3humaniz3d]

I bought a 3100 as a placeholder while I waited for release of Zen3. It sat right there in a Dark Hero, under a 420mm AIO rad. I like to think my 3100 was shown love it would never experience in the hands of someone else.

[@DeerJerky]

@@D3humaniz3d That's pretty cool actually. Indeed it was loved

[@MillionaireHoyOriginal]

Hmmm... literally just built a RTX 3090 + Ryzen 9 5950x build with an X570 Dark Hero board. I would have chipped in the extra cash had I known this was available - mostly for the extra M.2 and USB 3.2 slot. Not mad at the Dark Hero though.

[@TheSocialGamer]

and here I am ready to upgrade from my simple yet capable TUF GAMING plus WiFi x570.... I've added all I can to this board and it's maxed out. I'd love the loads of available M.2 and overall awesome side slot design. I can't find this yet, but I'll grab it as soon as I see it for sale here in the US.

[@MillionaireHoyOriginal]

@@TheSocialGamer Best of luck, man.

[@NerdyDaveDD]

Man, built the exact same setup 1 month ago. I too would've chipped in for the extreme variant... Although I'm happy with what I got, I still feel a bit F*cked by ASUS. Mainly the extra M.2.. OH WELL UH

[@MillionaireHoyOriginal]

@@NerdyDaveDD Yeah, it's mostly the extra M.2, but we'll just have to settle for the 8 SATA drives lol.

[@connorsmith6517]

@CerebuZ I mean besides the Halo CPUs of AM5, nothing AMD puts out for the first AM5 generation will be better than a 5900x on a Dark Hero. Just my opinion but you can get to what 5ghz or more stable overclock on a dark hero with a 5900x

[@ZanderLexx]

That windows 11 ready sticker makes me laugh so hard :) . Remembers me of the y2k compliant PC's 🤣

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

HD audio around the Vista Era, there was a fuck ton of these bogus garbage stickers on everything.

[@throughsoul]

This is one of the best boards I've seen with features and power. I have the Zenith Extreme II and I like this one even better. TB4, USB 3.2, 10Gbe and I even like the placement of the LiveScreen. Plus, three M.2 connections on the front of the MB in addition to the DIMM.2. That is a lot of metal!

[@Steve30x]

TTL is the very first computer hardware KZbin channel I ever subscribed to over ten years ago. I enjoy his way of reviewing and unboxing.

[@OC3D]

wow - we are both still here too! Much love dude x

[@OhItsThat]

That’s a bad ass board. I’ve had the Maximus 6 Formula, Maximus 7 Formula and I’m currently using the Maximum X Code. I just got a Crosshair Dark Hero x570 and it seems light on the accessories end. At least compared to my other boards. Each one was well over $300 but the Crosshair was well over $400. The board is a beast but what I gotta do to get a USB stick rather then a disc I can’t use? Buy an Extreme I guess.

[@LoLo-vh2hn]

What is the disc for anyway?? And does windows 10 com with the asus extreme motherboard??

[@LawrenceTimme]

Nice finally a board to run my 1800x at 5ghz like adored TV promised.

[@TheDaswilhelm]

When you misunderstand something and hold on to it for too long.

[@LawrenceTimme]

@@TheDaswilhelm bro ive done every bios update, had x370 prime pro, crosshair vi hero, crosshair vii hero, crosshair VIII hero, crosshair VIII formula and the crosshair VIII hero dark. None of them will do 5ghz on my 1800x, but I feel this board will be the one. I've had this 1800x nearly 5 years now, best cpu I've ever had.

[@blazingmatty123]

@@LawrenceTimme you can absolutely do 5GHz on an 1800X, just not at ambient :P

[@stevewatson6839]

@@blazingmatty123 Great nym BTW. :-)

[@basshead.]

I remember when he promised the R5 3600 for $99 lol. He's so full of shite.

[@t_pagz]

Great preview, mine is showing up tomorrow…can’t wait!

[@paulb4uk]

I do like asus boards very well presented in the box with lots of cool extras the oled screen and rgb lighting looks great as well .

[@ProAutist101]

The review i have waited for Will give review at end TTL and team =0P

[@OC3D]

Review will come later - this is just a little look around to wet your appetite while Im testing x

[@TillOverHill]

"so heavy", "arms aching", "trouble holding it up"... This must be the video where TTL decided to go back to fitness training :-D

[@OC3D]

Honestly it made my wrist hurt!

[@happytrails1963]

Such the fancy motherboard! Its on the next level up for me. Been using a ROG Strix B550E. Bought it after watching one of your videos that helped very much!

[@LawrenceTimme]

You can get a crosshair IV extreme

[@rare6499]

Not sure I’ve got enough organs left to be able to afford this. Looks insanely expensive 😅

[@RubenKemp]

Probably 4-500£

[@OC3D]

The Formula is £500..... looks like this will be £699

[@gscurd75]

$800 USD at newegg right now.

[@tommcqueen2840]

I just finished a dual water loop custom build using this M/B with a 5950x, EVGA 3090 FTW3 GPU and 64GB of Gskill DDR4 4000 in a silver aluminum Lian Li 011D XL. Using a Radikult dual reservoir front panel setup and EKWB GPU & CPU/VRM water blocks. Very happy with it so far.

[@shshankking]

I have Aorus Xtreme X570 rev 1.2 with 5950X.. And with Curve Optimizer alone, all core clocks are at 4.7Ghz. Love the board.. Even when I used to have 3950X on this board with 4.5 ghz, it never crossed 45C vrm temp mark. But this also looks great.

[@AquaStevae]

I got rid of my Gigabyte boards, because they can't overclock ram or cpu's worth a crap!!!!! Truly pissed me off how HORRIBLE those boards are with RAM and CPU OCing. Same CPU's and RAM OC'd perfectly well on the ASUS boards. Not even close...

[@dominic.h.3363]

Someone pinch me, they finally put the SPDIF back...

[@oganesd]

"AMD Finally gets a ROG Extreme board!" did you forget about Crosshair VI Extreme?

[@andreewert6576]

I was gonna say that.

[@AmateurTroll69]

They push this motherboards with "overclocking" potential, as if Ryzen 5000 series is known for their overclocking.........

[@stevewatson6839]

@@AmateurTroll69 Can you OC owt these days though? AMD's boost algorithm generally makes it pointless. Undervolting and just generaly tightening things up is more worthwhile usually.

[@jakehancock2888]

I'm still running a crosshair vi extreme x)

[@EllDay]

@@jakehancock2888 same dude. I was like WTF is my board?

[@jinpalermo]

this is awesome.. I still have an 8700k and would be upgrading to the zen 6000 series as soon as it releases :)

[@zokocx]

Not to disappoint you, but next AMD ZEN4 architecture will be with DDR5 DIMMs so this board will not support next Ryzen.

[@jinpalermo]

@@zokocx yeah man I agree, I heard it'll be on am5 and that would be the perfect time to upgrade as a 1st gen am5 cpu.

[@x4vi3r46]

@@zokocx Ryzen 6000 will be Zen 3+, so those cpus will not support DDR5 until ryzen 7000 (Zen 4)

[@AnchorAlchemist]

Definitely going to pick this up to last me until AM5 gets all the kinks worked out. I was an early adopter of the X370 and the memory compatibility issues. Thanks, Tom for the preview, and looking forward to the review. Cheers and blessings to continued growth!

[@arijitzindahai]

I remember the last crosshair viii formula review that starts with that terrifying laugh

[@paskowitz]

Took them long enough. Hopefully next gen we see an Extreme close to launch.

[@DalisYn]

Finally !

[@G0UDG]

Good evening Brother's and Sisters looks great Tom Brother. Very nice board looks like since the release of the WRX80 Sage Motherboard Asus have upped the Anti and are making the new boards far more robust great to see

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

Uhm dude, you can power up the board without a CPU normally as its part of the UEFI feature for flashing the UEFI if your CPU is not supported, Asus has done this for a while now since they also added the flashback USB utility which makes it impossible to brick the Mobo as long as the BIOS/UEFI chip isn't borked.

[@OC3D]

Doesn't turn all the lights on like this though dude

[@DeltaCmndrElite]

@@OC3D just need to make a connector with the 5vsb and ground i have one i cut off a old psu 20 to 24 pin adapter and spliced it to a usb lead so can power it off any usb supply or power bank

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

@@OC3D It should as its entering UEFI, you can even change the hardware settings beforehand using Aura software and saving the profile otherwise it goes into the stock rainbow mode.

[@ShadowzGSD]

i really want it, would be perfect for my 5950x, might change my mind when i see the price, was thinking about the hero dark.

[@t_pagz]

$799 - it’s up on the Asus store now.

[@LoLo-vh2hn]

Is it better than the dark hero motherboard??

[@coolhand4598]

@@LoLo-vh2hn bigger and more bells and whistles.. overkill class of board.. if the Dark Hero wasn't overkill enough already!

[@LoLo-vh2hn]

@@coolhand4598 I just ordered it 3 days ago should be here Thursday and returning my dark hero!!!

[@cj09beira]

have you forgotten about the CROSSHAIR VI EXTREME?

[@OC3D]

Kind of - but it just feels like its been too long since then!

[@venomnight]

Just pre ordered mine

[@Excalabur50]

Top little preview Guv!

[@evilhf915]

I own the x570 crosshair VIII formula and I love it so much! After I added vrm to the water I got 5ghz allcores on 5900x.. This one must be even more insane!

[@Day_SoT]

I'm hitting 5.1Ghz on 8 cores still trying to get it across all 12 great board I must agree... but would of loved the M.2 card tho

[@evilhf915]

@@Day_SoT very nice

[@m.m.3753]

@@Day_SoT me too with my Asus b550m-a prime. Hit 5.150 for at least 5 seconds in gaming. 4x8gb= 32 Gig 3600 CL14-14-14-8-14-28-42 1T GDM on. So for what i should buy a expensive ROG Board?! CB23 MC=22819 pt. Curve - 25 and offset - 0,06250V

[@OntarioGuy430]

After having shorting issues with my last ASUS motherboard and case I will not be buying any motherboards with armour on the back.

[@cristianr9168]

I already have an x570 board for my 5950x but if they make an am5 socket board as good as this I'll consider Asus in the future : )

[@darthxanus4902]

😍 my board will be here tomorrow

[@runnerthemoose]

Erm not finaly, just updates the ROG Zenith Extreme which is very much TR4 AMD Threadripper which I use was released in 2017.

[@slim420MM]

Still using my Crosshair Hero x370 but this is tempting.

[@etjulien]

Really nice mobo! Appreciate the review. Your videos are always enjoyable and informative! Cheers mate!

[@gearcheck101]

I just finished my dark hero build earlier this year now I want this. Also I see your Ryujin II 360, wouldnt mind upgrading my Ryujin 360 either, would like to see them tested head up

[@venomnight]

Mine finally came today sept 16. Not to long of a wait

[@SuprUsrStan]

Better late than never. This makes me excited for the Crosshair VIII Extreme for AM5!

[@OC3D]

Wouldnt it be the Crosshair IX ?

[@SuprUsrStan]

@@OC3D Oh. Yeah. That.

[@Millenia3D]

Cannot wait, been wanting to upgrade my mobo and case for my 5950X build and already nabbed the new Fractal Torrent the day those came out. Just need to settle on a cooling solution while I wait for the C8E to hit shelves..

[@Bozar069]

I would consider picking this up and using my dark hero for something else but theres no where to go with this. AMD is going to a dfferent style socket for the cpu and new ram is coming.

[@superscuba73]

Here's hoping they give us Crosshair Extreme for AM5.

[@cloudstrife7083]

I got the Asus Rog Crosshair Hero VIII wifi x570 pretty solid board all around no need to pay the extra for features you 'll rarely use it's the exact same board under the hood so

[@mainly_dyutish9]

Finally a mb that doesn't need any expansion card for real

[@darthxanus4902]

Definitely going for this board next month

[@PerJohansson-Xeizo]

Nice preview

[@mason9119]

This will be perfect to replace my crosshair viii hero wifi board , i was waiting for this board for so long. mine is coming today. 👍😎👍

[@detmer87]

Too late. I'm on a B550 Unify-X and it's a true memory champion. I have owned at least 5 ASUS ROG motherboards over the years but I'm not looking back. If ASUS wants me back they also need to compete on price (ROG has gotten quite expensive last generations)...

[@ptah4000]

My guess is $549 US. Strange timing for the end of a socket

[@TKIvanov]

One at the beginning and one at the end was the thought I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dihydrogenmonoxide9210]

799 usd yeah wierd timing

[@bdmpotato]

I'm more interested in the rog mech statue

[@OC3D]

Ive had that a few years now ;)

[@ProAutist101]

WEll great preview my tech guru with a passion of in depth concise protocol. The ROG Robot was touch, love the M.2 Dim card that's a blessing with 5 8Tb drives just on the mobo alone potential. Fan and RGB hub is also a nice addition along with that Rog USB utilities drive. If you want the best value i would say this board ranks high for AMD high end cpu's. Thanks for the review TTL.

[@OC3D]

PREview - more to come soon.

[@ProAutist101]

@@OC3D I expect nothing less from you good sir, i was thinking somewhere in the 35 minute range with 15 -20 mins for graphs and whatnot. Old school classic review with a monster cuppa and a plate of biscuits.

[@AquaStevae]

@@OC3D While you're right in calling this a "preview", you are dead wrong on the "more to come" part of it. OVER A YEAR LATER and you STILL haven't done a full review or build. WHY?

[@Vegetto19]

Have the Dark Hero paired up with 5900X/6800 XT since Jan this year, though this new board is pretty awesome.

[@Sizzler1174]

Finally, a HOT board for AMD! 🔥🔥🔥👀💨

[@MakeSh00t]

The best MB for ryzen 5900x and 5950x :) 18+2 power stages rated for 90 A, ProCool II power connectors, microfine alloy chokes and 10K Japanese-made black metallic capacitors, 4 x DIMM, max. 128GB, DDR4 5000(OC)

[@ericduncan2191]

They should have released this when the 5xxx series came out. Probably would have grabbed this board over my Crosshair VIII Hero

[@redcircle257]

Omg, I'm buying this 100%

[@ZioComposite]

If you were late to the AMD party this would be perfect for the likely new v-cache versions of the 5000 series

[@saltwatertaffybag]

>me with my ASUS Prime X570 from years ago overclocked to 4.2 GhZ Meh

[@Sidewinder1009oli]

thanks for this

[@lordseriqolm4898]

Where's the SteamOS 3 Ready sticker? its da future I tell ye!

[@truthbringer8574]

This & the x570 proart are the two best amd mobos

[@WilliamChoochootrain]

I see the ProArt x570 in the background!

[@gerrymichaud3851]

I'm running a ASUS Rog Zenith 2 Extreme, 64 gig ram, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x and a ASUS ROG Strix AMD Radeon RX 5700XT

[@stevewatson6839]

The sparkles do come over on cam but not reaaly done justice perhaps at 1440p. I like this preview for once, I prefer one stonking vid usually. Don't see the point of unboxings; they leave me impatient and with too much of my pint of tea and box of biccies left! :-) One thing I'd like to know is if this excludes some feature found on lower SKU's. It really annoys me if the top of the range leaves something out.

[@3XZDgg]

kinda odd they'd release this with AM5 just around the corner.

[@asdf51501]

10G and Thunderbolt support? I'm tempted to buy one of these to replace a possibly slightly wonky Crosshair VIII Hero board I have. It's got a 5950x in it, and I could put a Thunderbolt PCIe card in my NAS that happens to be sitting right next to it. This is really tempting, actually. I could then pop the Asus 10G PCIe adapter I have in there now and migrate that to a different PC.

[@waveformdistortion]

Looks cool, but for what the ROG Extreme boards are usually priced at I think I'd still rather buy the Dark Hero board and an EK monoblock for it.

[@AquaStevae]

I might have been swayed to the Dark Hero IFFFFFFF it wasn't newtered with ONLY two M.2 drive bays. That SUCKS!!!! ASUS truly dropped the ball on that, and STILL charged $450 for it. Not good enough ASUS!

[@willthomas9635]

Im working on a new build at the moment. I have the crosshair viii formula. Would have gone with this one but it doesnt have a waterblock. Now all i need is a 3090 to complete my build.

[@FLASHF1RE]

Shame they didn't bring this out sooner, not point updating me Crosshair Hero wifi I bought in October last year for my 5900X

[@alainbator4648]

cool board that i might use @ 25% of its capacities ! anyway, eveything worked well on first attempt (sli 3090, dimm for dual nvme, cpu recognition with right frequ...) i jsut don't use RGB and my pc box is closed so i don't car about the 56434446 RGB and led functions !

[@QuentinStephens]

It looks very nice but very expensive. When you come to actually test it, can you try having all the M.2 slots full and the DIMM.2 slot fully loaded?

[@AquaStevae]

I would have liked very much to see that as well. BUT, He NEVER tested it. Never did a full review or anything else beyond this vid. Sad...

[@gimmegaming5345]

I just bought the board after watching the video. Hopefully its as good as my X570 Gigabyte Xtreme in my main rig. Edit: I just realised I bought my X570 Gigabyte Xtreme after watching your preview on that also :).

[@dennimulyawan6544]

Excellent preview, even though no detail for both DP IN, their function and why they are exist

[@ParallelBarrel]

Thunderbolt display. DP out from gpu to DP in into mobo, single thunderbolt cable from monitor to mobo.

[@wakesake]

Buddy it doesnt matter how thick the heatsinks are , they need F-ing FINS to work properly

[@PreeyenMistry]

I'm waiting for the X570 Strix Gaming 2, it'll have dynamic OC like the dark hero, hopefully it'll cost less too. Asus have teased these boards ages ago and the release is taking a long time too, might have to buy a x570s gigabyte aorus master

[@LoLo-vh2hn]

Is this this board better than the dark hero motherboard??

[@QuantumLabsTech]

That logo being cut on the side, jez my ocd is killing me, cmon asus, i love ya, just a little bit more to the left pls lol

[@Mwing317]

yes it is a deal breaker for ocd person like me, plus the oled screen too as oled on Asus burnt in weeks on my ryujin aio and thor psu

[@itbaggedurgf]

I have the ROG crosshair VI extreme x370 board. But nice they updated it to x570

[@nahimgudfam]

As a motherboard enthusiast, this is the best thing I've ever seen. It just makes me wonder, what kind of overbuilt PSU I should get with it? It's a shame about the Wifi 6e I'd never use (but nice to have I suppose) because it would be a sin to use anything but cat6+. I feel like they should use Windows services for configuration via Powershell for lower overhead instead of GUI stay resident processes but I understand such a niche product doesn't really justify it but I think if they could do it if they just wanted to.

[@estusflask982]

I'm getting the Asus Thor 850w for mine. I don't think you need more unless you have more than 1 graphics card

[@nahimgudfam]

@@estusflask982 It's a modified Seasonic Platinum which probably makes it the best PSU in the market

[@jeffdughman9741]

it the same board as the hero dark, just has extra m.2, screen and thunderbolt, but otherwise the performance is the same, i wanted an extreme but after looking at specs im happy witht he dark, im going intel next go around and will splurge on a godlike or an extreme next time though, those of you with a dark and are wanting this board dont feel bad it the same board for the most part wuen its come to cpu oc and ram oc performance 🙂

[@jorgepalaio2149]

What a unit of a mobo

[@gscurd75]

Oooooooooo Just got a Kingpin card and 1300w PSU. I am about to get a 5950x to pair with it. Now I know what MOBO to plug it all in to.

[@krazykillar4794]

I am considering a ROG build . This is the motherboard I am most likely going to purchase . It is very expensive , the best deal I could find was around £700 .

[@jermainemorales7875]

I just got an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wifi a month ago (I couldn’t find a Dark Hero in stock), for my 5950X & 3080 TI FE; and now they drop this! Pain.

[@hefnyx]

For the final review, would you be so kind as to test 4000MHz RAM? I personally couldn't get 2000MHz FCLK to work on the HERO.

[@the14u36]

Amd only does 3200

[@hefnyx]

@@the14u36 AMD officially supports 3200 but unofficially says 4000 is achievable at 1:1 ratio with Zen 3.

[@the14u36]

@@hefnyx the highest i could get was 3400 with cas in the 20s or 3200 cas 14

[@hefnyx]

@@the14u36 I reached 3600 CL14. It depends on the type of RAM and motherboard capabilities as well.

[@stevewatson6839]

@@the14u36 Officially Intel don't support this kind of thing either. 3600MHz seems to be the sweetspot, anything over is pointless willy waving. :-)

[@AquaStevae]

September 22' and STILL no follow up, or full testing as you promised in this vid. It REALLY pisses me off that you NEVER followed up this vid with a full review even. WHY????? Many of us wanted to see the comparison between the Crosshair Hero VIII, Hero VIII Dark and this Crosshair Extreme. But you gave us nothing. Poorly done...

[@terryiesharkels7807]

I purchased this board today cost the guts of £700. I suppose this board will go out of stock real soon due to current demand on shipping containers and lack of stock shipping from the East. With the chip shortage no wonder the price is high.

[@EmiratiAuto]

that asus robot is amazing ,,, can we get that robot from amazon ? or does it come with the motherboard ?

[@S4_QUATTROPOWER]

I'm so tempted to get this for my 5950x 😍😭

[@S4_QUATTROPOWER]

Update I just bought it 😬❤️😍

[@alexpelevin8259]

I've returned a second Crosshair Extreme due an annoying whistling sound in the VRM. Its not a typical coil whine, the sound is static. I can hear it even through PC case glass panels. I used 3 different PSUs (seasonics and corsair)and always heard the same sound. Looks like Asus did something wrong in the VRM area. My Crosshair viii hero, Dark Hero and Maximus z390 have no issues. So sad 😞

[@vincentsmith9180]

Very cool looking board, but only 2 pcie x16 slots?? 3x M.2 + the extra M.2 slot for the M.2 expansion card, that's total 5x M.2 nvme ssd => that is excellent!

[@naamloos1337]

nice, love it

[@musicbycandlelightmbc3225]

Asus ROG Crosshair Extreme: $799.99 CAD Newegg.

[@yaggaman1914]

ill stick to my 3090 hybrid and zaku 550m and 5950x i got since nov2020

[@darktron69]

i do miss there rampage motherboard lineup.

[@eskimolost2012]

damn have to save for next build....3080 ti fe and 3600x on x570 tuf. almost 2 years old. hopefully there will be an extreme board x670 or x770 eatx board.

[@NomadHorizon]

This almost makes my want to trade in my x570 Aorus Xtreme for this thing, it's pretty gooch...

[@GES1985]

What exactly is the thing for that goes next to the RAM? (Holds 2x? More M.2 SSD?) is it just a more efficient spot for the memory/next to the ram? Or is it just a convenient spot to hold 2x more? Also, is there anything about slots and efficiency for memory speed, or is it all just so fast that positioning doesn't matter at all?

[@OrjonZ]

I need this.

[@Shevanovich]

When will the review be available or if the embargo will be lifted?