ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero Ryzen Motherboard Review @ [H]

FrgMstr · Jun 4, 2017

ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero Ryzen Motherboard Review - It’s been years since we’ve reviewed an ASUS ROG offering that was designed for AMD CPUs. That’s not to say that those haven’t existed, those just weren’t worth a look as the AMD side of things has not been compelling for the better part of the last decade. Thanks to AMD Ryzen, we have a reason to take the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero for a test drive and tell you how it fared in the tumultuous sea of AM4 motherboards.

twzTechman · Jun 4, 2017

Thanks for reviewing this board. It is pretty surprising for ASUS to put out a ROG board that doesn't excel at overclocking. It seems like overall the motherboard implementations for the Ryzen CPUs are still struggling to mature. Hopefully the memory issues will improve/mature and get these CPUs to be even better.

KazeoHin · Jun 4, 2017

Whoa. Is this the downfall of Asus?

Has Asus's hardware division finally started to resemble its customer service sector???

jchambers2586 · Jun 4, 2017

Sounds like I need to stay with gigabyte.

Ocellaris · Jun 5, 2017

RIP test board.

Nice review, that board sounds frustrating as hell. At some point board makers should back away from putting over 9000 features on boards and focus on shit that works.

byusinger84 · Jun 5, 2017

I have the ASRock X370 Pro Gaming and I love their UEFI as much as ASUS. If the ASUS is no go, then I'd recommend people give this one a try. The Tachi is pretty much the same board with only a few things stripped down and for $199 is a solid offering IMO. I'm really glad I went with my gut and got the ASRock this time.

ebduncan · Jun 5, 2017

I will agree the Crosshair bios needs work. Hopefully things improve here soon on that front. Having been limited to DDR 2667 on my memory and very relaxed timings. The new Aegsa 1.0.0.6 is supposed to solve most issues with ram so they say.
Other than that I've been rocking 4ghz stable on all 8c, with 1.35 volts. On my R7 1700.

Another note I thought I was going to brick the board updating the bios via the windows tool, Took over 9 hours to complete the flash, and it rebooted and worked, I thought for sure it was gonna be dead. I think I am going to use a usb stick next time and hopefully its faster.

sirmonkey1985 · Jun 5, 2017

KazeoHin said:
Whoa. Is this the downfall of Asus?

Has Asus's hardware division finally started to resemble its customer service sector???

i just think the board was released to early.. to be honest i was actually surprised they even had the crosshair VI on release day of ryzen. the last few boards from that line i think have been released a month or so after the processor had been released.

noko · Jun 5, 2017

Is HardOCP getting soft?

First batch of boards came with bios's that will brick (make it a paperweight)
RGB lighting has a rather short time span before they all go dark - mine went dark about a week ago, maybe longer since I really didn't miss it that much to bother to see if it went out reading about it over and over again. To get it back, if I can get it back means loading Aura again (it would never open before, fresh install of Windows? ? ?)
Software is anything but stable, Aura RGB software has corrupted countless RGB lighted ram
Many loading AI Suite III will have lock ups or windows not booting ( I did not have that, I did have the automatic OCing software concluded that 1.55v to the cpu was fine with a clock speed of around 4.1ghz! on a cpu that was not even stable at 3.85ghz with 1.45v). Not one piece of ASUS Windows software worked well in my experience.
I had to remove all the ASUS sound software since with it installed passing any stability test was a very trying event - goes along with OCing - removed ASUS software if you want any kind of success
Then removing the ASUS software is one of the most frustrating thing you will have to do, it is more like a virus and just sticks around causing all sorts of havoc, use DDU, CC Clean and plow through the registry manually and good luck fishing
My cheapo B350 BioStar mobo boots up about 10secs faster then the CH6, runs rams flawlessly at 3200, no cold boot issues
Speaking of cold boot issues, if your temperature gets less than 20c ambient and your CH6 is less than 20c -> good luck booting it will just turn on and do nothing, let it warm up some and it will boot
Many who turn off power to the motherboard will fight to get back into the bios to reload hopefully a saved profile, a special beta bios was put forth that started the motherboard at 90mhz BCLK vice 100mhz to solve this, except some devices did not like running that slow

Now I am able to go to 4ghz but currently don't have good enough cooling to consider running at that speed. Memory wise no problem getting past 3200 speeds, mixture of cpu IMC quality, bios, AMD AGESA quality and if you got all the planets align right. I got lucky twice with memory. Actually with the newer beta bios with AGESA 1.0.0.6 ASUS is probably best for memory support.

The bios does give much to configure, play with etc. I don't have any mouse lag issues in the bios and I am using a USB wireless mouse - so was surprise seeing Kyle having that issue. Logitech G602 mouse.

ASUS is very active at overclock.net with this motherboard which is refreshing and makes it sorta fun as well as time goes on. I would only recommend this board if you are a deep seated Enthusiast that don't mind plowing through hours of issues at times, this motherboard can deliver some great results. Now if you want a show boat don't expect to bring friends over, start it up with all the RGB decorations lighting up, nor it booting up with the past weeks OCing triumphs that tested stable for 24 hours straight except now you are now at base clock. Consistency this motherboard is not and that can be very frustrating, especially it can be very unique to you with others having totally different nightmares or experiences.

I hope HardOCP reviews the Tachi, looks like the AM4 board to have for an Ethusiast also BioStars X370GT7, the MSI Titanium looks to be joke for the price. Hopefully the ThreadRipper is somewhat more mature or stable when it hits, that is where I think HardOCP will not be so nice if it fails to deliver.

Pieter3dnow · Jun 5, 2017

I skimmed over the conclusion very briefly but I agree, if Asus wants to play make a better motherboard. The reliance upon something that might or might not survive pending on settings which are not something this board is not capable of supporting is just another form of showing things are "terribly" wrong.

Meaning that if from a 1000 people using Crosshair VI Hero 800 boards are pretty reliable is simply not good enough and even if that 800 number is bigger there is no good reason for that number not to be 1000.

Asus needs to do a lot more to be the best on the AM4 platform.

Coming back from a "bad" overclock is not an easy process with this motherboard either. Many times you have to simply clear the CMOS to have any hope of having the board POST again. Over...and over...and over...and over. Intel and ASUS have simply spoiled us with its extremely matured UEFI over the last five years. The AM4 platform on the Crosshair VI Hero will make you feel like you have been moved back a decade when you start truly dialing in your overclock. One thing I can tell you is make sure you save your UEFI settings, and more than once I found those "gone" after a hard power down for a few minutes, pulling the CMOS battery, and finally powering back up. Quite simply working with this motherboard over the last few months has not been an enjoyable experience. Of all the AM4 motherboards I have worked with up to this point, the Crosshair VI is on the bottom of my list. It's odd though as there were shining moments where you though ASUS had everything lined out, and then you would see another UEFI roll out and things would be worse than those were two releases ago.

bad overclocks aside the whole process makes little to no sense. Which makes me wonder why , why is it that this is so "broken" can't put the blame on AMD. Then I'm wondering does Asus know what they are doing. The first time I saw that this board was out I was thinking (after seeing jay2cents video and reading xtremesystems.org on it just bricking) skip this one at all costs.

Shouldn't sirens go off at Asus HQ or other forms of alarms ?

dgacioch · Jun 5, 2017

I get it that the board makers didnt get a lot of time to prepare for am4's launch but I expected asus to get their ROG board issues worked out by now, especially for what they are charging for it.

ecmaster76 · Jun 5, 2017

Well, there is a soft brick issue with AMI itself. Gigabyte has it as well and they're reps indicated it would affect all the manufacturers most likely. Removing all power cables from the MB and the CMOS battery for a while should bring it back if its this particular bug.

Also the Blender test seemed hard to explain. That's a significant difference between Asus and Gigabyte even though the clock speed is the same and the Gigabyte board has faster RAM to boot.

On the other hand the AotS results are probably explained by the faster memory on the Gigabyte board (retesting GA at 2933 might be a good data point)

AthlonXP · Jun 5, 2017

So I am thinking about picking up this board. My new system will probably not be overclocked and use my setup for a mix of gaming and productivity work (Some VM's for cert training). Was trying to think if the 1800x + this board worth it over a 7700K setup?

Pieter3dnow · Jun 5, 2017

AthlonXP said:
So I am thinking about picking up this board. My new system will probably not be overclocked and use my setup for a mix of gaming and productivity work (Some VM's for cert training). Was trying to think if the 1800x + this board worth it over a 7700K setup?

You should be able to find cheaper X370 boards all of them should be able to handle stock 1800X.

Dan_D · Jun 5, 2017

noko said:
Is HardOCP getting soft?

First batch of boards came with bios's that will brick (make it a paperweight)

RGB lighting has a rather short time span before they all go dark - mine went dark about a week ago, maybe longer since I really didn't miss it that much to bother to see if it went out reading about it over and over again. To get it back, if I can get it back means loading Aura again (it would never open before, fresh install of Windows? ? ?)

Software is anything but stable, Aura RGB software has corrupted countless RGB lighted ram

Many loading AI Suite III will have lock ups or windows not booting ( I did not have that, I did have the automatic OCing software concluded that 1.55v to the cpu was fine with a clock speed of around 4.1ghz! on a cpu that was not even stable at 3.85ghz with 1.45v). Not one piece of ASUS Windows software worked well in my experience.

I had to remove all the ASUS sound software since with it installed passing any stability test was a very trying event - goes along with OCing - removed ASUS software if you want any kind of success

Then removing the ASUS software is one of the most frustrating thing you will have to do, it is more like a virus and just sticks around causing all sorts of havoc, use DDU, CC Clean and plow through the registry manually and good luck fishing

My cheapo B350 BioStar mobo boots up about 10secs faster then the CH6, runs rams flawlessly at 3200, no cold boot issues

Speaking of cold boot issues, if your temperature gets less than 20c ambient and your CH6 is less than 20c -> good luck booting it will just turn on and do nothing, let it warm up some and it will boot

Many who turn off power to the motherboard will fight to get back into the bios to reload hopefully a saved profile, a special beta bios was put forth that started the motherboard at 90mhz BCLK vice 100mhz to solve this, except some devices did not like running that slow

Soft you say? Hardly.

First batch of boards came with bios's that will brick (make it a paperweight)

We mentioned the fact that this was one of three motherboards that have failed on us. Unless the board is DOA, this statement doesn't make any sense. How can a BIOS that's already on the board brick the thing?

RGB lighting has a rather short time span before they all go dark - mine went dark about a week ago, maybe longer since I really didn't miss it that much to bother to see if it went out reading about it over and over again. To get it back, if I can get it back means loading Aura again (it would never open before, fresh install of Windows? ? ?)

I had the board on my bench for two weeks and mine never "went dark." You can't speak as though the issues you've seen or read about are 100% certain on every board. How can I slam a board over a problem I never encountered?

Software is anything but stable, Aura RGB software has corrupted countless RGB lighted ram

Again, I never experienced this.

Many loading AI Suite III will have lock ups or windows not booting ( I did not have that, I did have the automatic OCing software concluded that 1.55v to the cpu was fine with a clock speed of around 4.1ghz! on a cpu that was not even stable at 3.85ghz with 1.45v). Not one piece of ASUS Windows software worked well in my experience.

AI Suite III worked fine once I got it installed. Automatic overclocking often selects voltages that are out of whack, so this isn't purely an issue that's isolated to AI Suite III.

I had to remove all the ASUS sound software since with it installed passing any stability test was a very trying event - goes along with OCing - removed ASUS software if you want any kind of success

Once again, this wasn't my experience.

Then removing the ASUS software is one of the most frustrating thing you will have to do, it is more like a virus and just sticks around causing all sorts of havoc, use DDU, CC Clean and plow through the registry manually and good luck fishing

I've never had any trouble removing ASUS software.

My cheapo B350 BioStar mobo boots up about 10secs faster then the CH6, runs rams flawlessly at 3200, no cold boot issues

I never had any cold boot issues provided I wasn't trying to recover from a bad overclock.

Speaking of cold boot issues, if your temperature gets less than 20c ambient and your CH6 is less than 20c -> good luck booting it will just turn on and do nothing, let it warm up some and it will boot

This wasn't an issue.

Many who turn off power to the motherboard will fight to get back into the bios to reload hopefully a saved profile, a special beta bios was put forth that started the motherboard at 90mhz BCLK vice 100mhz to solve this, except some devices did not like running that slow

The ROG Crosshair VI Hero did fight me on getting into the UEFI sometimes, I'll give you that. Still, I hardly think that the [H] is going "soft" because we didn't experience the same issues as you did.

noko said:
Now I am able to go to 4ghz but currently don't have good enough cooling to consider running at that speed. Memory wise no problem getting past 3200 speeds, mixture of cpu IMC quality, bios, AMD AGESA quality and if you got all the planets align right. I got lucky twice with memory. Actually with the newer beta bios with AGESA 1.0.0.6 ASUS is probably best for memory support.

We had no trouble with DDR4 3200MHz RAM speeds using a very specific set of modules. None of the others we tried were able to run at that speed. It's not really a mixture of CPU IMC or any of the other issues you mentioned. Motherboard design may factor in, but the biggest issues are related to the UEFI and the AGESA code of a given motherboard model. So far, it doesn't seem like the CPU itself is a limiting factor. Nothing more, nothing else.

noko said:
The bios does give much to configure, play with etc. I don't have any mouse lag issues in the bios and I am using a USB wireless mouse - so was surprise seeing Kyle having that issue. Logitech G602 mouse.

I didn't have any issues with the mouse lagging in the UEFI. I was using a Logitech G602 as well.

noko said:
ASUS is very active at overclock.net with this motherboard which is refreshing and makes it sorta fun as well as time goes on. I would only recommend this board if you are a deep seated Enthusiast that don't mind plowing through hours of issues at times, this motherboard can deliver some great results. Now if you want a show boat don't expect to bring friends over, start it up with all the RGB decorations lighting up, nor it booting up with the past weeks OCing triumphs that tested stable for 24 hours straight except now you are now at base clock. Consistency this motherboard is not and that can be very frustrating, especially it can be very unique to you with others having totally different nightmares or experiences.

ASUS is usually pretty active in various forums. This isn't anything unusual. What is unusual is the inconsistency of the ROG Crosshair VI Hero experience. Good or bad, ASUS is fairly consistent most of the time.

noko said:
I hope HardOCP reviews the Tachi, looks like the AM4 board to have for an Ethusiast also BioStars X370GT7, the MSI Titanium looks to be joke for the price. Hopefully the ThreadRipper is somewhat more mature or stable when it hits, that is where I think HardOCP will not be so nice if it fails to deliver.

Kyle makes all the decisions on what boards we review. I don't know what I'm going to get until I go and pick them up. As for ThreadRipper, I sincerely hope AMD's X370 serves as the refresher course in motherboard chipsets and reference code that it needed. Frankly, the last two major chipset releases that AMD has had were a cluster fuck, so I wouldn't get my hopes up. We are still dealing with X370's bullshit and the 990FX chipset was a shit show too. It was arguably worse than X370 in some ways. I have a feeling that ThreadRipper's chipset will be repurposed server hardware that's been haphazardly thrown into an "enthusiast" configuration hastily. Whether or not that proves to be a good thing or a bad one is anyone's guess. We'll have to wait and see. You are right about one thing, I will not be kind if ThreadRipper's chipset / platform is as screwed up as X370 was. With X370, I can almost give AMD a pass since it had been so long since they produced a motherboard / chipset platform anyone wanted that they easily could have forgotten how to do it right. With ThreadRipper, they won't have that excuse.

noko · Jun 5, 2017

AthlonXP said:
So I am thinking about picking up this board. My new system will probably not be overclocked and use my setup for a mix of gaming and productivity work (Some VM's for cert training). Was trying to think if the 1800x + this board worth it over a 7700K setup?

If you are not going to overclock, not sure why you would want to buy this board? It was made to tinker with. I just never got to the productivity part yet with this board. It is better then when I first got it bios wise but it still has issues. For me this is a fun board, it has been awhile since I plowed through a bios, hours, days and really over a couple of months now. That will eventually end when I will not even think about he bios for months if not a year - I just wonder if the board will go beyond the tinkering and fixing stage. I would not even consider a 7700K at this time, Ryzen for the bucks just offers way more in the scheme of things. I wished HardOCP reviewed more AM4 boards, I know the platform is not yet mature but that just goes with the territory.

AthlonXP · Jun 5, 2017

noko said:
If you are not going to overclock, not sure why you would want to buy this board? It was made to tinker with. I just never got to the productivity part yet with this board. It is better then when I first got it bios wise but it still has issues. For me this is a fun board, it has been awhile since I plowed through a bios, hours, days and really over a couple of months now. That will eventually end when I will not even think about he bios for months if not a year - I just wonder if the board will go beyond the tinkering and fixing stage. I would not even consider a 7700K at this time, Ryzen for the bucks just offers way more in the scheme of things. I wished HardOCP reviewed more AM4 boards, I know the platform is not yet mature but that just goes with the territory.

Oh I plan to tweak and play with Overclocking eventually, just not right out the gate.

Dan_D · Jun 5, 2017

noko said:
If you are not going to overclock, not sure why you would want to buy this board? It was made to tinker with. I just never got to the productivity part yet with this board. It is better then when I first got it bios wise but it still has issues. For me this is a fun board, it has been awhile since I plowed through a bios, hours, days and really over a couple of months now. That will eventually end when I will not even think about he bios for months if not a year - I just wonder if the board will go beyond the tinkering and fixing stage. I would not even consider a 7700K at this time, Ryzen for the bucks just offers way more in the scheme of things. I wished HardOCP reviewed more AM4 boards, I know the platform is not yet mature but that just goes with the territory.

More AM4 motherboards will be reviewed. Don't worry about that.

pgaster · Jun 5, 2017

Here is the best thread I've seen for info about this board: http://www.overclock.net/t/1624603/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread
The problem is that the thread is a mile long and it's hard to read it all to pick out the good info, but here is one big issue people need to know about from that thread:

"Aura software and RGB sticks corrupting SPD

If you're using out Aura software and have compatible RGB sticks installed, please make sure you're not running any other software which is reading SPD (CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWInfo32/64, SIV, AIDA64, Speedfan etc) or you might end up with a corrupted SPD. Most of the time they will still work fine, but there's a slight chance your sticks might become unusable. It's currently being investigated on our side, until then I have to recommend to uninstall Aura until we've fully assessed the situation. From what I've learned it's a bug present with several different vendors and combinations of both motherboards and DRAM modules."

Yup, the software will F up your RAM. Nice right?

Asus really needs to get their act together for this board in my opinion. In general they seem a bit behind on bios updates in general compared to other companies.
The Crosshair VI Hero and maybe the X370 Pro have some beta bioses available with AGESA 1.0.0.6. They are available in that long thread somewhere, but hard to find.
Other boards in the lineup don't have anything yet.
The other board manufacturers have more beta bioses with AGESA 1.0.0.6 available, and they had them sooner. Asus is just behind and I'm not happy about it. I have the Prime B350 Plus and wish I had picked up an MSI or Gigabyte now. It will probably be weeks before my board gets an update.

edit: Here are the beta bioses for the Crosshair: http://www.overclock.net/t/1624603/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread/15900#post_26106654
Elmor works at Asus so those are fine to use.

noko · Jun 5, 2017

Dan_D said:
Soft you say? Hardly.

First batch of boards came with bios's that will brick (make it a paperweight)

We mentioned the fact that this was one of three motherboards that have failed on us. Unless the board is DOA, this statement doesn't make any sense. How can a BIOS that's already on the board brick the thing?

RGB lighting has a rather short time span before they all go dark - mine went dark about a week ago, maybe longer since I really didn't miss it that much to bother to see if it went out reading about it over and over again. To get it back, if I can get it back means loading Aura again (it would never open before, fresh install of Windows? ? ?)

I had the board on my bench for two weeks and mine never "went dark." You can't speak as though the issues you've seen or read about are 100% certain on every board. How can I slam a board over a problem I never encountered?

Software is anything but stable, Aura RGB software has corrupted countless RGB lighted ram

Again, I never experienced this.

Many loading AI Suite III will have lock ups or windows not booting ( I did not have that, I did have the automatic OCing software concluded that 1.55v to the cpu was fine with a clock speed of around 4.1ghz! on a cpu that was not even stable at 3.85ghz with 1.45v). Not one piece of ASUS Windows software worked well in my experience.

AI Suite III worked fine once I got it installed. Automatic overclocking often selects voltages that are out of whack, so this isn't purely an issue that's isolated to AI Suite III.

I had to remove all the ASUS sound software since with it installed passing any stability test was a very trying event - goes along with OCing - removed ASUS software if you want any kind of success

Once again, this wasn't my experience.

Then removing the ASUS software is one of the most frustrating thing you will have to do, it is more like a virus and just sticks around causing all sorts of havoc, use DDU, CC Clean and plow through the registry manually and good luck fishing

I've never had any trouble removing ASUS software.

My cheapo B350 BioStar mobo boots up about 10secs faster then the CH6, runs rams flawlessly at 3200, no cold boot issues

I never had any cold boot issues provided I wasn't trying to recover from a bad overclock.

Speaking of cold boot issues, if your temperature gets less than 20c ambient and your CH6 is less than 20c -> good luck booting it will just turn on and do nothing, let it warm up some and it will boot

This wasn't an issue.

Many who turn off power to the motherboard will fight to get back into the bios to reload hopefully a saved profile, a special beta bios was put forth that started the motherboard at 90mhz BCLK vice 100mhz to solve this, except some devices did not like running that slow

The ROG Crosshair VI Hero did fight me on getting into the UEFI sometimes, I'll give you that. Still, I hardly think that the [H] is going "soft" because we didn't experience the same issues as you did.

We had no trouble with DDR4 3200MHz RAM speeds using a very specific set of modules. None of the others we tried were able to run at that speed. It's not really a mixture of CPU IMC or any of the other issues you mentioned. Motherboard design may factor in, but the biggest issues are related to the UEFI and the AGESA code of a given motherboard model. So far, it doesn't seem like the CPU itself is a limiting factor. Nothing more, nothing else.

I didn't have any issues with the mouse lagging in the UEFI. I was using a Logitech G602 as well.

ASUS is usually pretty active in various forums. This isn't anything unusual. What is unusual is the inconsistency of the ROG Crosshair VI Hero experience. Good or bad, ASUS is fairly consistent most of the time.

Kyle makes all the decisions on what boards we review. I don't know what I'm going to get until I go and pick them up. As for ThreadRipper, I sincerely hope AMD's X370 serves as the refresher course in motherboard chipsets and reference code that it needed. Frankly, the last two major chipset releases that AMD has had were a cluster fuck, so I wouldn't get my hopes up. We are still dealing with X370's bullshit and the 990FX chipset was a shit show too. It was arguably worse than X370 in some ways. I have a feeling that ThreadRipper's chipset will be repurposed server hardware that's been haphazardly thrown into an "enthusiast" configuration hastily. Whether or not that proves to be a good thing or a bad one is anyone's guess. We'll have to wait and see. You are right about one thing, I will not be kind if ThreadRipper's chipset / platform is as screwed up as X370 was. With X370, I can almost give AMD a pass since it had been so long since they produced a motherboard / chipset platform anyone wanted that they easily could have forgotten how to do it right. With ThreadRipper, they won't have that excuse.

lol, yes inconsistent is probably the best word to describe the CH6. Kyle had different issues then you and I as well. Now that was a joke that you guys are getting soft

.

The initial bios's allowed the SOC voltage to get excessive which corrupted one of the onboard EC (electronic controller). ASUS was not very specific, bios 901 corrected this issue but many first buyers boards bricked after changing ram settings due to this.

I am not the only one that had RGB going out, Aura not loading etc. Hard to quantify or give accurate numbers of a percentage of owners. If you uninstall Aura you will still have services running in the background that are not uninstalled. Aura will corrupt RGB GSkill ram modules - known issue which ASUS recommends not using AURA if you use RGB modules at this time. Since I don't have RGB modules, I will reload the latest AURA which has been updated since my issues with it not starting to see if I can ignite those lights again - oh boy.

Maybe I should be more precise on cold boot - one issue for some; is if you power down the board as in unplugged or turn off the power supply, it will basically on the next startup turn on and off over and over again eventually going into default mode where you will need to reload your bios settings or profile - I don't have that issue - that 90mhz bios was for that. Second is with temperature, some of us if the board gets cold enough - it will not boot up until it warms up - it just hangs before the bios. Since I live in Florida that is not too much of an issue unless I cool my room down excessively with my A/C unit.

The ASUS sound software I only know one other person making similar report that had the same issue as I, I never went back into the software to see if I could locate a setting causing the issue. Basically at 100% cpu load stress testing with Sound Sonic and the other program (forget) the desktop would freeze periodically, hitch etc. and eventually fail. Prevent the startup of Sound Sonic etc. same test, no issues - changing a number settings, voltages, frequency, cpu clock had no impact on this behavior only not starting the software. It gave that unsteady feel to the OS or that it was not stable. Uninstalling and reloading did not change the issue. I stress test normally with music running, it can be a good indicator of issues and with the ASUS sound suite it was an utter mess until it was not used. My recommendations of not using any ASUS software until you have a good baseline on your OC, Ryzen Master or Bios. I just don't have much faith in ASUS software at this time.

Current issue I have with most recent bios is if the VIVE is powered up, it will boot into a black screen, no bios screen etc. Now why that would change with a bios change . . .

All said and done, I like the board, it is fun and can deliver some potent performance once tamed a little.

FrgMstr · Jun 5, 2017

noko said:
lol, yes inconsistent is probably the best word to describe the CH6. Kyle had different issues then you and I as well. Now that was a joke that you guys are getting soft .

Funny it is a "joke" now that we spent the time answering every one of your concerns. Don't threadcrap our review threads again. There are some of us trying to have real conversations.

noko said:
The initial bios's allowed the SOC voltage to get excessive which corrupted one of the onboard EC (electronic controller).