If you could report back on what you see when you get it, that'd be great.
Interesting that someone posted this pic in response to a comment that it's more than likely 4x with doublers.
He said "ain't no doublers on the XI hero sir, and only a single voltage controller, its a 4 phase mate."
and posting this picture
what do you make of that?
Here is a comparison to the C7H where you can clearly see the IR3599 doublers. Is Asus doing something different this time around and removing the doublers?
EDIT: Added additional photo for comparison
Interesting that someone posted this pic in response to a comment that it's more than likely 4x with doublers.
He said "ain't no doublers on the XI hero sir, and only a single voltage controller, its a 4 phase mate."
and posting this picture
what do you make of that?
Here is a comparison to the C7H where you can clearly see the IR3599 doublers. Is Asus doing something different this time around and removing the doublers?
EDIT: Added additional photo for comparison
Add me in to the interested group.
My Hero XI is sitting here as well unopened. The large temp differences observed between some of these review sites is alarming. From what I am hearing is that unless you allow the mobo to provide more than 95W the chip will throttle and affect performance. Reviewers that saw better temps used boards that had the 95W limit kept in place and resulted in much cooler 9900k chips....and lesser performance. 7% lower in cinebench for example. That in itself is not a big concern as you can adjust that wattage cap. However, the REAL concern was that you have some folks saying that removing the 95w cap was going to overwork certain boards with "lessor" power delivery set ups. The Hero XI was singled out as an example. I believe the Hero XI is a 4 x 2 +2 set up using doublers but the photo above does seem to indicate a different layout??
Edit - Steve from HU is sticking to his claim even 19 hours after his initial comments about the Hero XI and getting backlash
He points to a Reddit comment that says:
"Sorry, he's bang on correct about it. Proof of phase count. Controller is an ASP1400CTB (rebranded IR35203 or 35201, an 8+0 phase controller) , there is only one voltage controller on the board, and there are "10" total phases, there are also no doublers on the board, which makes it a fake 8 phase, aka a 4 phase. mosfets are SIC639's (50 amp phases). (https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/9qdemh/masssive_psa_if_you_want_full_stock_performance/e88fj...)
Pretty much what Jackflynn is showing above with the pics.
Asus needs to step in here and add some clarity. I would find it hard to believe Asus would put out a board without ample power delivery in the ROG line so I suspect this is no concern. But the hubbub on the net about the Hero XI (and it's siblings) is somewhat alarming. The 9900k is a power hog for sure and I want something bullet proof.
My Hero XI is sitting here as well unopened. The large temp differences observed between some of these review sites is alarming. From what I am hearing is that unless you allow the mobo to provide more than 95W the chip will throttle and affect performance. Reviewers that saw better temps used boards that had the 95W limit kept in place and resulted in much cooler 9900k chips....and lesser performance. 7% lower in cinebench for example. That in itself is not a big concern as you can adjust that wattage cap. However, the REAL concern was that you have some folks saying that removing the 95w cap was going to overwork certain boards with "lessor" power delivery set ups. The Hero XI was singled out as an example. I believe the Hero XI is a 4 x 2 +2 set up using doublers but the photo above does seem to indicate a different layout??
Edit - Steve from HU is sticking to his claim even 19 hours after his initial comments about the Hero XI and getting backlash
He points to a Reddit comment that says:
"Sorry, he's bang on correct about it. Proof of phase count. Controller is an ASP1400CTB (rebranded IR35203 or 35201, an 8+0 phase controller) , there is only one voltage controller on the board, and there are "10" total phases, there are also no doublers on the board, which makes it a fake 8 phase, aka a 4 phase. mosfets are SIC639's (50 amp phases). (https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/9qdemh/masssive_psa_if_you_want_full_stock_performance/e88fj...)
Pretty much what Jackflynn is showing above with the pics.
Asus needs to step in here and add some clarity. I would find it hard to believe Asus would put out a board without ample power delivery in the ROG line so I suspect this is no concern. But the hubbub on the net about the Hero XI (and it's siblings) is somewhat alarming. The 9900k is a power hog for sure and I want something bullet proof.
