ASUS Crosshair VI Hero wins Hardware.info community Award 2017 For best ATX board

[DrThunder]

Congratulations with the award Asus employees. The dutch site (hardware.info) readers have chosen the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero for the best ATX board of 2017
I hope you al get a positive vibe from this. Take you advantage from the large ROG community. I have an idee maybe you can organize ROG events in different countries for example: how to overclock cpu and/or memory

[Syaoran]

unknownmiscreant wrote:
Yeah I know. I seem to have had a really good run compared to others. Not sure why. My board still is a bit wonky with the water block after its been transported/knocked. Get a q-code 8 sometimes. Although generally loosening the CPU block and wiggling it, along with reseating GPU and RAM solves it.

I never really followed the gigabyte incident. Although most of the issues with other boards was a while ago and seems to have been resolved.

I'm not trying to defend the board. If even half the issues posted around the place are/were true its still a total dunger. I was merely pointing out that **IF** you have it working its a very nice board IMO. Not sure exactly what I have done differently compared to everyone else... Maybe I got lucky IDK.

Although in the first month or 2 it was a total nightmare for me. Cold boot, the onboard audio jacks injected VRM noise into my speakers. It wouldn't shut down or go into sleep mode when using raid (admittedly this was AMD's fault, not asus.) It still doesn't allow PCIex4 cards to run off the chipset and the water temp headers can't be used in BIOS. And theres the irritating green light. Back then I bloody hated the thing. Now its (largely) sorted out, I'm glad I stuck with it. Just really glad I waited till AGEAS1.0.0.6 before I bought it. If I had had all the RAM issues in the beginning, I would be utterly loathing it now.

Outside of the 9945 and 9920, the only BIOS I have had any luck with is the 1602. My system is stable! No cold boot issues, no warm boot issues, no failing temperature sensors, working decent overclock, etc. However, it takes a lot more voltage than I think it should as well as it was an absolute nightmare to finally get to this point. I won't even try the new betas simply because the 1701 was a complete leap backwards for my system with similar settings. I feel like I just got lucky with the 1602 and the current settings I have that are working.

I am usually up for testing new BIOS's and usually one to flash a new BIOS when it is available. However, the Crosshair VI has completely made me loathe doing that. In most cases, each BIOS is not just a step backwards for me, but for the most part, the majority of people posting with issues. Whatever the variables on this board are, it literally seems like a crapshoot and a frustrating one. These situations are usually reserved for those rare hardware combinations that most people wouldn't consider mixing but with this board, that seems to apply to just about every hardware combination, including what is in the QVL. As far as I am concerned, Asus messed up with this board and is trying their hardest to fix what I would consider the unfixable. The real question is; when are they doing to admit defeat!/ 😛

[Neoony]

Personally ...
I never had any real issues since day 1 I bought it (24.5.2017)
And if there were any issues at all, most of them were solvable by adjusting some settings.
Also 4Ghz 3200MHz since day one and I could always ran minimum of those speeds.
Few small things not working as intended on some bioses, but really nothing terrible.
Cold boot bug is for me a very tiny issue...so it needs to boot twice, nvm xD (I dont shut the power off completely any often)

So Iam absolutely happy I bought it. (My first ASUS board....never really liked their boards in the past)

But I understand that this might not be the case for everyone. (especially because different RAMs...or other hardware combinations)
But if this board was such a disaster for majority of people, I think you would see this forum "spammed" much more.

[jbasemoine]

Syaoran wrote:
Outside of the 9945 and 9920, the only BIOS I have had any luck with is the 1602. My system is stable! No cold boot issues, no warm boot issues, no failing temperature sensors, working decent overclock, etc. However, it takes a lot more voltage than I think it should as well as it was an absolute nightmare to finally get to this point. I won't even try the new betas simply because the 1701 was a complete leap backwards for my system with similar settings. I feel like I just got lucky with the 1602 and the current settings I have that are working.

I am usually up for testing new BIOS's and usually one to flash a new BIOS when it is available. However, the Crosshair VI has completely made me loathe doing that. In most cases, each BIOS is not just a step backwards for me, but for the most part, the majority of people posting with issues. Whatever the variables on this board are, it literally seems like a crapshoot and a frustrating one. These situations are usually reserved for those rare hardware combinations that most people wouldn't consider mixing but with this board, that seems to apply to just about every hardware combination, including what is in the QVL. As far as I am concerned, Asus messed up with this board and is trying their hardest to fix what I would consider the unfixable. The real question is; when are they doing to admit defeat!/ 😛

I fear the worst myself to!
Altough i have good faith in agesa 1007 (just waiting fot stable update) i fear this mobo will be a failure.
And if Asus (witch the properbly won't do) admits it's defeat, i wonder how and IF we will be compensated in any way.
As far as i know most features they advertise with don't work well or don't work at all.
I hope that they will fix the Ram isseus with agesa 1007 and some kind of Gaming boost wouldn't be se bad either 😛
but as of know only time will tell how this boards will end.

main reason why i purchase this board was:

Advertisement of ram running @ 3200+ speed
Could use my old AM3+ cooler, since there where no coolers or AM4 Backplate (even if there where backplates, my verry old ancient AM3+ cooler would not have gotten one) during the release of Ryzen availeble
Only board that was on stock 😛
Alway have had good experiance with Asus motherboards and are verry durable!

[Syaoran]

jbasemoine wrote:
I fear the worst myself to!
Altough i have good faith in agesa 1007 (just waiting fot stable update) i fear this mobo will be a failure.
And if Asus (witch the properbly won't do) admits it's defeat, i wonder how and IF we will be compensated in any way.
As far as i know most features they advertise with don't work well or don't work at all.
I hope that they will fix the Ram isseus with agesa 1007 and some kind of Gaming boost wouldn't be se bad either 😛
but as of know only time will tell how this boards will end.

main reason why i purchase this board was:

Advertisement of ram running @ 3200+ speed
Could use my old AM3+ cooler, since there where no coolers or AM4 Backplate (even if there where backplates, my verry old ancient AM3+ cooler would not have gotten one) during the release of Ryzen availeble
Only board that was on stock 😛
Alway have had good experiance with Asus motherboards and are verry durable!

The power phase and amount of SATA ports was my big motivation. I have realized that a good power phase doesn't make a lick of a difference though when the rest of the board isn't stable. I am also looking forward to testing out the AGESA 1.0.0.7 code but it seems pointless to bother with the main issues not being solved as of yet. Everything works for me at the moment and has for a couple of months now. I am almost afraid to mess with it and never get it back to being stable again. If I had known what I know now though about this board back when I purchased it. I would have purchased the Gigabyte AX370 K7. Although problematic at first, especially with the one really bad BIOS they quickly pulled. It has turned out to be one of the best X370 boards available and also gets much quicker updates than Asus has provided with the Crosshair VI lines.

[jbasemoine]

Syaoran wrote:
The power phase and amount of SATA ports was my big motivation. I have realized that a good power phase doesn't make a lick of a difference though when the rest of the board isn't stable. I am also looking forward to testing out the AGESA 1.0.0.7 code but it seems pointless to bother with the main issues not being solved as of yet. Everything works for me at the moment and has for a couple of months now. I am almost afraid to mess with it and never get it back to being stable again. If I had known what I know now though about this board back when I purchased it. I would have purchased the Gigabyte AX370 K7. Although problematic at first, especially with the one really bad BIOS they quickly pulled. It has turned out to be one of the best X370 boards available and also gets much quicker updates than Asus has provided with the Crosshair VI lines.

i yet again agree with you on almost every point, i forgot about the sata ports 😛 the only thing i don't agree on is the Gigabyte AX370 K7.
Personally i will never purchase a Gigabyte motherboard ever again specialy when it is Revision 1+ mobo i have had a couple of gigabyte boards in the past all where like rev 2.0 they advertised those boards with all kinds off premium stuff, later (much later) after a article about reversioned mobo's of gigabyte i found out that all the premium features where removed on alle these boards, like Durable expansive caps where replaced on rev 2.0 by cheap crappy caps, but they put a cover over it so you wouldn't see unles you removed the cover etc...
After that i changed board for my amd 8350 and went for the asus Sabetooth 960 fx (can mistake the number but it was a sabertooth line mobo) not only was my pc as stable F!*&@ but everything increased, writing speeds of hdd, loading times of games, fps in games, sound card was finaly getting fluid DTS output with no jitter etc., even cold boot times decreased with like 35 seconds!
I then also changed some other gigabyte mobo's of other pc's i had running that time i got 1 asrock and 1 other asus mobo, i had the same results with these mobo's as with the sabertooth mobo.
So never will i go back to gigabyte!

[DrThunder]

i didn't vote but with new technology from ryzen you can not expect its not fully stable from the beginning. sure we would. i have my troubles to with my board running stock cpu settings and a little bit memory overclock i have hynix memory chips and i can say they're worst supported i think i have the worst case with dual rank memory but there running now on 2933 MHz CL 16 i have 2 major problems

1 When the power is switched of from the power supply and i switched on and press power button my board restart 3 times and then it boots code 40 then i reboot the computer again and then it boot with code 24

2 CPU sock voltage is it switched between 1.32 v - 1.52 v on auto and my 1800x will not get higher then 3,7 GHz on stock settings

i have tried 2 times the MSI Tomahawk b350 to and it had sometimes trouble to, mem overclock wasn't as good as this board and forum/community isn't as big
that's an advantage for asus and the community to

Maybe it is a bit to busy with new technologies i have seen Raja@ASUS posted on 4 chipsets forums 2 from intel and 2 from amd for example

This could be the best ATX board i think and hope so