"AMD's Ryzen CPUs have become hugely popular since their introduction earlier this year. The all-new chips make eight cores more accessible than ever before, but there's more to their appeal than the value proposition for power users looking to maximize their horsepower. Ryzen represents a triumphant return to form for an AMD desktop platform with legendary pedigree. ROG motherboards can trace their lineage back over a decade to the original Crosshair for Athlon 64 processors, so it's only fitting that the newest one brings Ryzen up to speed with our latest innovations.
The ROG Crosshair VI Extreme is tailored for the high-end machines PC enthusiasts dream of building. Overclockers get what they need to not only unleash the CPU's raw potential, but also manage the liquid cooling required to run comfortably at top speed. And builders get provisions for the elaborate custom plumbing and personalized system lighting that are all but required to turn heads these days. The result is an X370 motherboard like no other."
Hopefully that Bitspower monoblock they mention is like the one they offered with the Maximus Z270 board. I'm glad ASUS is throwing AMD more love in the ultra-high end market.
I'm not trying to be a Debby downer, but the insane, overbuilt, OCing features on these X370 boards are pretty pointless. With the hard 4.1Ghz wall on Ryzen, even the entry level X370 Prime board is overkill. That being said, dang that's a pretty board!
I'm not trying to be a Debby downer, but the insane, overbuilt, OCing features on these X370 boards are pretty pointless. With the hard 4.1Ghz wall on Ryzen, even the entry level X370 Prime board is overkill. That being said, dang that's a pretty board!
I will concede that this generation Ryzen is horrible at OC'ing, but need to remember that this chipset is going to be viable for a few years (up to 2019/2020 if I remember right). So what is to say that Ryzen+ or Ryzen2 or whatever happens to be a decent overclocking chip? Not a certainty, but with refinements to things it is a possibility.
What we really need to take away from this is that when MB's decide to invest top of the line, flagship type products into a CPU, it can only be seen as a good thing since it helps cement it a bit.
I'm curious if you can run NVME drives in both m.2 slots. Either way, my unopened CH6 hero is going back to the store. I will hold onto my EK CH6 Hero monoblock until I find out for sure that it won't fit on the Extreme, if anyone is in the market for the EK CH6 Hero monoblock....
I will concede that this generation Ryzen is horrible at OC'ing, but need to remember that this chipset is going to be viable for a few years (up to 2019/2020 if I remember right). So what is to say that Ryzen+ or Ryzen2 or whatever happens to be a decent overclocking chip? Not a certainty, but with refinements to things it is a possibility.
What we really need to take away from this is that when MB's decide to invest top of the line, flagship type products into a CPU, it can only be seen as a good thing since it helps cement it a bit.
That's a fair point. That's honestly why I'm switching to Ryzen (1700 on it's way!). I figure that now it's good, but two years from now it could be great and still use AM4.
I'm not trying to be a Debby downer, but the insane, overbuilt, OCing features on these X370 boards are pretty pointless. With the hard 4.1Ghz wall on Ryzen, even the entry level X370 Prime board is overkill. That being said, dang that's a pretty board!
I wouldn't call it a hard wall, more like one that at present cannot be readily surpassed using ambient cooling methods. The Extreme will hopefully do rather well in the subzero market, where I suspect their marketing department will be all over - something probably about bringing back the glory of those who push their gear to the edges and beyond I suspect.
Or, in short, I argue it isn't a hard wall if a single stage cooler, chillbox, or dry ice / LN2 allows it to push further
I'm not trying to be a Debby downer, but the insane, overbuilt, OCing features on these X370 boards are pretty pointless. With the hard 4.1Ghz wall on Ryzen, even the entry level X370 Prime board is overkill. That being said, dang that's a pretty board!
This board and all AM4 boards will supoport Ryzen+, Ryzen2 and Ryzen 3 and it looks like Ryzen 2 will be able to Oc quite a bit based on the design process they're using(the process is the reason Ryzen can't pass 4.1).
All these fancy RGB lights everywhere and all I want is plain old white lighting. Would it really kill manufacturers to add white LEDs so that we could have RGBW? That would also let people have less saturated colors in their lighting.
I have this board, I have been running it since August when it was first released. The only difference between it and the ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero is that the Extreme has more fan headers. I liquid cool with two rads and 16 fans, so the 4 Fan headers per radiatior makes it very nice. It is a very niche product and not one that should be bought over the Hero board if one is not watercooling.
I have this board, I have been running it since August when it was first released. The only difference between it and the ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero is that the Extreme has more fan headers. I liquid cool with two rads and 16 fans, so the 4 Fan headers per radiatior makes it very nice. It is a very niche product and not one that should be bought over the Hero board if one is not watercooling.
This is a ridiculous comment! There are plenty of differences between this and the Hero. Why are you short selling this board? for starters, there are TWO m.2 slots, which was a game changer for me, all by itself. Secondly, it's a more powerful board, and much easier to oc than the Hero. I had the Hero, sent it back to Newegg, and got this board, instead. With the Hero, I needed a pci riser board for my other m.2 drive, for my wifi card and for my other usb 3.0 header, as the Hero only had ONE. This took up most of my pcie slots, and made power management a pain. With this board, it had built in wifi, extra m.2 slot and and extra usb 3.0 header so that I could use all four of my cases usb 3.0 ports on the front. Those are NOT small things. And now, the ONLY pcie slot being used is the one for my 1080 ti card. This gives me further options, and I have my 1700 oc'd to 4039mhz, and it turns out high 1700's on cinebench all day long. This board is fantastic, and you act like it's a pos. Also, the idiotic placement of the start/reset/retry/safeboot and q-code window on the Hero made them all almost unusable if you were using the pcie slots. On the Extreme mobo, those have all been moved to the top right-hand corner, where they are very easy to see and use. This is a fantastic mobo, and well worth the cost of upgrade. Btw, after sending back all of the riser boards I needed to run all of my needed accessories, the upgrade from the Hero to this EXtreme was only $20. So yes, it was well worth it!
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