Asus x870e rog strix E and hero owners
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Well the main thing about the hero is the price. At this price point you have a lot of options from b550 to b670. Even amongst x870e it one of the priciest options. You then have Asus world renowned customer service/RMA.
I only got it because I wanted to F about with Eclk and I could have gotten that on older models. But to be blunt I have been an Asus user for 20 years and I don;t know how to get around on other boards. Like them or hate them I know my way around An Asus board no matter how good or bad they may be. I do have another board from Giga and it's all right. But I still prefer my asus board just because of familarity.
I only got it because I wanted to F about with Eclk and I could have gotten that on older models. But to be blunt I have been an Asus user for 20 years and I don;t know how to get around on other boards. Like them or hate them I know my way around An Asus board no matter how good or bad they may be. I do have another board from Giga and it's all right. But I still prefer my asus board just because of familarity.
Thanks for replying I've got a gigabyte x570 at moment upgrading I've had asus boards in the past and got on fine I'll buy the board from ocuk as they deal with the rma should it arise just wondered what people's opinion was on the 2 boards
For the average user they're very pricey, that's my first thought.
USB4 is a mixed blessing, as with other X870/X870E boards.
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I was planning to get the cheapest X870e with an ECLK which was the taichi lite but a deal come up on the hero for £450 so jumped on that.
3 months in with a 9800X3D and I’ve not had any issues, overclocked the CPU to 5.6ghz and memory to 6600/28 stability has been rock solid with no bugs or crashes.
The only downsides of note are that the main M.2 heatsink can interfere with some coolers and if you use more than 3 Nvme drives your main pcie will run in X8.
While I do like the board I wouldn’t personally want to pay full price and if the ECLK is not something you want then the X870E Nova pretty much gives you everything else for quite a bit cheaper.
3 months in with a 9800X3D and I’ve not had any issues, overclocked the CPU to 5.6ghz and memory to 6600/28 stability has been rock solid with no bugs or crashes.
The only downsides of note are that the main M.2 heatsink can interfere with some coolers and if you use more than 3 Nvme drives your main pcie will run in X8.
While I do like the board I wouldn’t personally want to pay full price and if the ECLK is not something you want then the X870E Nova pretty much gives you everything else for quite a bit cheaper.