potentially make up for this
via the frequency advantage.
Ultimately this just may be the
right board for you anyway,
even if you’re using four high
density DIMMs.
As you can see in the
performance charts, the
scaling is pretty good
with increased memory
performance. Keep in mind
though that simply increasing
memory frequencies without
checking what is taking
place in the secondary or
tertiary timings, may lead
to a negative performance
impact or reduced scaling
when compared to what you
see here. All the results
here maintained the same
secondary and tertiary timings
so you can see ‘isolated’
scaling performance, with
no other performance
tuning options changing
automatically.
As is the case with many ROG
components, this is a tuners
board. Perfectly capable in a
gaming context, but it’s true
ingenuity is in the performance
options it lays at your disposal.
You can go into the details and
spend an eternity on it tweaking
away at the exhaustive UEFI
options. It’s a tuners platform
and the massive roughly 2,100-
page long thread at OCN is at
some level indicative of this.
Fear not though as you can
make your way around pretty
easily with patience. As it stands
the CHVI is vastly improved
and has been refined plenty
in the last three months. It is
finally worth considering for
your AMD powered gaming/
content creation or competitive
overclocking.
In a market where boards
are so similar, it is hard for
any one model to stand out.
ASUS has managed that with
the CROSSHAIR VI Hero and
by and large this is the most
complete offering for Ryzen
CPUs money can buy.
Give this one some serious
consideration as you’ll not be
disappointed.
Summary
For those looking
for overclocking or
performance tuning on
the AM4 platform, this
is the board you need to
buy. If, however you’re
only concerned only with
the gaming aspects,
there may be other
options better suited.
Not looking to leave the
ROG family then look at
the EXTREME SKU which
made its at COMPUTEX
2017. For all thing
performance orientated
though at a reasonable
price, this is the one
you’re looking for.
Would you buy it?
YES!
TheOverclocker
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