ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Motherboard (AMD Ryzen 9900X) Review

[@an_easy_name_to_remember4749]

The unique accent is great 👍. Not an annoying voice and kept me watching, good work. Got me as a new subscriber

[@zaselimgamingvideos]

you didn't talk about pcie lane sharing with m.2 slots and which ones to use if you dont want to share pcie lanes and want gpu to use full 16 lanes.

[@meck1973]

Great overview!! Ordered mine today!! 👍

[@AzraelIgnis]

what ram kit did you buy? I just bought mine but undecided which to go with.

[@meck1973]

@@AzraelIgnisCorsair Dominator Titanium 64gb (CMP64GX5M2B6000Z30)

[@saleemdean1153]

@@AzraelIgnis I recommend to at least check the manufacturers website and pick the motherboard you purchased and CPU you are pairing and decide from the ram sticks they say are compatible. I say this because once I did not do this and the ram i purchased worked for like a month then started getting blue screens. Finally after wasting money on ram that wasn't 100% compatible (i got a months use before blue screen) i purchased the correct ram. I know you didn't ask for this but thought id share from my mistake. Take care.

[@stephenhamilton3494]

Sorry newb question incoming. Whats the pcie 8 pin power next to the atx power for? Thanks

[@WooBino.]

How are you able to run 4 ram sticks and at what speed, I heard it diminishes speed at some point.

[@GLITCHEDZA]

They work quite well with the correct settings. Speeds and scores are at 9:39

[@DrkRydrProductions]

It does, if you see in the Benchmark, they are only running 3600mhz vs their rated DDR5 speeds. You only want 2 sticks for dual channel memory with DDR5

[@Tempvo]

it needs more USB Ports

[@dennisvanlith]

I thought that AMD was not well suited with 4 ram banks active. Did you experience any problems with your 4 banks in the slots? I'm asking because I have the same setup. But was recommended to only put two memory banks in, due to some limitations on the AMD system

[@ChosenMan37]

You can use 4 ram banks however If it doesnt work you may need to manually lower the ram speed like I did to make it stable. They still haven't fixed the issue with ddr5

[@Asatos_B]

What a beautiful motherboard

[@DrkRydrProductions]

I see a lot of comments on this below. AMD/Motherboard manufactures has this posted on their site, on AM5 platform using 4 sticks you basically getting DDR4 speeds of 3600 for max performance you want 2 sticks in dual channel. There will be no fix for this as it is a socket issue.

[@stephencampbell4034]

I’d like to know if you removed the black plastic CPU bracket to install your AIO? And if so, was it just to install the AIO because later in your video - I see the bracket back on. Is it necessary?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

I had to remove it to turn it around. Some coolers install with the hooks pointed inwards while others install with them outwards. It all depends on the brand. So you’ll see I remove them first, but simply rotate them 180 degrees and put them back.

[@stephencampbell4034]

@@GLITCHEDZA Are you using stand off screws? Inside that black bracket? Which AIO are you using?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

​@@stephencampbell4034 I am using the NZXT Masterliquid ML360 cooler here. No standoff screws are used. The cooler uses two metal brackets that attach together and the hook screws are screwed onto each side. These hooks are then attached to those black plastic brackets that I flipped around.

[@OptimizingNetwork]

Thanks for the review

[@laflame.-tv]

This or the carbon x870e?

[@Tech-Tide2387]

I just got my one today can’t believe I got it so easy in Hong Kong unfortunately yet to build it as I’m waiting for the rest of the custom liquid cooling parts to show up

[@GLITCHEDZA]

That was lucky. I know here they are only available from 7 October.

[@Tech-Tide2387]

@@GLITCHEDZA that’s interesting

[@Tech-Tide2387]

Well, in a day or so, I will be posting a build video as I have completed the liquid cooling system

[@raymundromero]

​​@@Tech-Tide2387, @GLITCHEDZA how tall is the vrm of this motherboard?

[@matthewjamesmaccarthaigh]

What memory are you going to use?

[@R6ex]

Too expensive! Will put the 9800X3D on the Strix X870E-E instead.

[@thealien_ali3382]

It's only £70 more might aswell get this board for £70 is no a brainer

[@R6ex]

@@thealien_ali3382 Nah. Don't need to pay extra 25% for things I don't need, coz Strix-E is already more than what I use as a simple gamer. Anyway, I've decided to go for the MSI Carbon instead of the Strix-E coz cheaper and good enough for my RTX 5090 build. Of course, if $$ is no object, Hero and Apex are the ultimate boards currently.

[@austinlevi3452]

So you’d rather spend top tier money on a b tier board. If you’re not getting the best why even get the strip? Get a cheaper one

[@R6ex]

@ Strix is A tier. Hero is S tier. Godlike is SS tier.

[@Kevinwoolford123]

would this be ideal for the 9800x3d?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

Yes it will work in this board perfectly.

[@Kevinwoolford123]

@GLITCHEDZA amazing 👏 thank you

[@denshin2724]

Recommend to update to this board if having the X670e Hero?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

They are very similar. I wouldn't say the upgrade would be worth it tbh.

[@okerac8344]

Can you place a link for the type of memory got for the board?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

The RAM used in this review is the Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 6000 MT/s -www.kingston.com/en/memory/gaming/kingston-fury-beast-ddr5-rgb-memory

[@perionation]

I placed 2x 4090 GPUs on this motherboard and its only detecting 1 of them (the one closer to the cpu). Maybe is something to do with the BIOS config. Please can you give me an idea of whats happening? Thanks you so much, I've looked up everywhere but havent find anything. Really appreciate it.

[@zeeman313]

Whoa 2 4090s!

[@BM1620]

You can only run 1 dumbass

[@ChosenMan37]

Why would you need two? Even two would hurt the cooling.

[@rckrz6]

pcie slot 2 can be disabled if you populate some m2 slots

[@flaccus123]

Was comparing the m2 specs in the manual for the x670e hero against the x870e version and looks like the x670e has more usable M2's According to the Asus manual, on x670e - you can populate M2_1, M2_2 (lanes from CPU) and M2_3 and M2_4 (lanes from chipset) GPU still runs at 16X. Lane sharing only occurs if you populate the 2nd PCI-E slot with the M2 add in card, which drops the GPU to 8X. So you can run 4 M2's (2 from cpu and 2 from chipset) with 16X GPU. The USB 4.0 ports on the x670e must be taking lanes from the chipset so you have 20 lanes for GPU and M2 from the CPU. On x870e you have more M2 slots. You can populate M2_1, M2_2, and M2_3 (lanes taken from CPU) and M2_4 and M2_5 (lanes from chipset) However by populating M2_3 it drops GPU to 8x but also disables M2_2 completely!!. So looks like you can run 3 M2's (1 from cpu, 2 chipset) with 16X GPU. The USB 4.0 is taking lanes from the CPU so this limits you to only 20 lanes for GPU and M2 from the CPU.

[@gunjitsingh2709]

Dont think this is true at all, how can populating one m2 disable another !! It kinda defeats the point of having multiple m2

[@thealien_ali3382]

​He's correct just checked the manual myself, and that's a shame, I double checked to make sure I was reading it correctly before I made a decision and what this guy said is correct, the manual can download from the Asus website under this motherboard page. I will be getting the x670e hero this is a deal breaker tbh​@@gunjitsingh2709

[@benjaminthorpe3380]

Should I get this if I have the asus rog x670e Extreme?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

I don't think so. The rog x670e Extreme has much of the same specs. Wi-Fi 7 if you really need it and more power stages on this board but unless you're heavily overclocking, I don't think it is NB.

[@zeeman313]

I'm thinking of buying it.

[@GLITCHEDZA]

DO IT!

[@BLVCKCR0WN]

Absolute Banger video! I definitely plan to get this board for my 7800X3D. Can I ask what song you used for this video?

[@GLITCHEDZA]

Thanks for watching! The song is on Audio Jungle. Just called Techno. Sounded cool so I bought it haha - audiojungle.net/item/techno/26103872

[@ARUNMANOJ86]

would have loved ROG keychain from Strix line instead of bottlecap opener

[@ENZO_D]

Is it working with 7800X3D?

[@beauliga]

It's meant for all am5 socket, so yes

[@danielainger]

It’s an AM5 board of course it will 🤦‍♂️

[@jonasliddell2549]

Does ist supports ECC?

[@jameskillbot2867]

No ASUS doesn’t do ecc. The x870 master from aorus does…

[@massimoc8561]

nice video

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

installs a kit of 4 stick 64GB 6000mhz DDR5 ram. proceeds keeping on running them at stock JEDEC spec at 3600Mhz... kind of a poor way of showing how the crosshair's new improved RAM slots are supposed to make running ram fast and much more stable..

[@DrkRydrProductions]

doesnt matter if running 4 sticks you wont get proper speeds in bios.

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

@@DrkRydrProductions just that you are completely wrong lol with a little bit of trial and error you actually CAN fine tune the voltages to the point that even 4 sticks on AMD would be running stable at 6000Mhz. 7000Mhz and above however is actually much more reliant on silicon lottery for your CPU+Motherboard+Ram, but it IS achievable. there are a bunch of videos on youtube of people showing their Zen4 and Zen5 rigs rocking 192GB of ram running at speeds above 5600Mhz and at 7000Mhz just fine. it just takes some effort to achieve this with AMD's platform.

[@DrkRydrProductions]

​@@HoLDoN4Sec Zen 4 is not Zen 5 Maximum memory speeds with all 4 dimms populated is going to be far less than 6000 and is a memory controller/platform limitation for AM5. Unfortunately it’s very unlikely that you’ll get all 4 sticks running at 6000mhz on am5 atm. It’s very well documented at this point that running 4 sticks of ddr5 on that platform will severely reduce the speed. I have watched a lot of people on you tube and all are running 2 sticks of DDR5 on the AM5 platform. Gamer Nexxus just did a 6.2 oc

[@thedonald2025]

guess this is the best board you can buy considering its 600 bucks nearly

[@Ultraprall]

waste of money. no 16x for gpu when using one of the m4 slots XD

[@JynxedKoma]

PoS waste of money. People who previously had a X670E board have ripped themselves off massively. And for what? Just for the stupid "AI" gimmick most of all, and some QoL features that don't even make your life that much easier compared to the previous gen boards, and still takes pretty much the same time to use.

[@minhtthach7754]

It is able to run 4 sticks of 96GB of DDR5 RAM consistently at 6400 mhz, unless you don't know what it means

[@matthewjamesmaccarthaigh]

​@@minhtthach7754I just ordered 2 kits of Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 2X32GB 6000 CL30 AMD EXPO, I'm curious if I'll be able to get them to both work stable. If not I'm just going to return one kit.

[@ChosenMan37]

​@minhtthach7754 they could make previous board to that with a simple bios update but they won't because money

[@CRE4MPIE]

lekker !

[@Great_America]

AMD has not fixed the limitations of the memory controller. Still can’t run 4 x 32GB. WHY AMD?!

[@matthewjamesmaccarthaigh]

Have you tested this board? It says it can handle up to 192GB

[@jameskillbot2867]

The problem isn’t on the board it’s in the cpu. It’s memory controller specifically.

[@Dragon2OOOO]

The 7 9800x3d?