Crosshair VI Hero is one of the high-end boards for the AM4 platform we have very much enjoyed thanks to the multitude of available interfaces, good quality components, beefy VRM but also a fully-featured and easy to use UEFI interface. This board does impress by having a ton of USB ports on the I.O so you can plug a ton of devices in the back, you can connect your own RGB strips to the dual Aura-lighting headers, monitor your cooling system via dedicated water temperature and flow-rate headers but also install your trusty AM3 compatible water pump/cooler due to the unique compatible mounting system.

Regarding the board BIOS, this board was notorious in the beginning because many boards got bricked because an IC was getting corrupted after a few runs and the Flasback feature was not able to fix it; the BIOS engineers however got to the bottom of the problem quite fast and supplied the users with a fix on the Overclock.net forums, starting with the 0902 version. Most current boards should ship with this version or a newer one BUT if you get a board with a legacy version, we really recommend you to flash it right away and avoid bricking it.

With the latest BIOS we were also able to overclock our Ryzen 7 1700 CPU sample at 4GHz again, that does show the good VRM quality, while the RMAA benchmark has shown that the advertised audio solution with the low-dropout regulator, the added ESS Sabre Hi-Fi ES9023P DAC but also the Texas Instruments RC4580 op-amp are not there just for show.

This specific board does also feature an external, dedicated clock generator that does enhance the system overclocking capabilities. We could also remind of the large number of Windows OS-based utilities that allow the overclockers work with most of the system tuning options easily, without the need to boot to the BIOS each and every time.

A high-end board also comes with a “high-end” price, so it can be found online for about 247 Euros.

ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero AM4 Motherboard is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to ASUS for making this review possible!