Hi all I'm back to report on initial testing of the 2700x on a asus crosshair vii hero x470, first things first i'm a little underwhelmed with quad channel ram support i have a 3600mhz corsair dominator kit 16gb and no matter what i did the max the kit would run at was 3000mhz, i understand that the 2700x is designed for dual channel support, but still a little disappointed.
however removing 2 of the above sticks did increase the speed of the kit to a max stable 3466mhz which is more like it, i did boot in at 3600mhz but soon bsod before opening up windows so left it at 3466mhz for testing, on that front i saw no increase from 3000 to 3466mhz, so in the end i dropped back to 3000mhz and called it a day.
i then started to see how far the chip would overclock and at the moment i'm at 4.1ghz (1.419v in windows) on all 8 cores with a max temp of 74 degrees for the cpu (using the bundled cooler), i have seen that mosfett temps are around the 77-80 degree region which is perfectly fine, to get all the above working i had to update the motherboards bios from 0207, to the latest release which is 0509 bit of a pain but overall fairly happy with it