ASUS Crosshair X870E Hero AMD AM5 Motherboard

I built my system and was able to post, but it did take a little time the first boot. I was generally happy with the state of the BIOS version that shipped with the board. I was a little nervous to flash a new BIOS because my PC was mostly stable, didn’t seem to really be having any memory issues, and there was that fiasco with voiding your warranty using officially released BIOS from Asus (what a joke). BUT, all that warranty stuff has been corrected and I finally decided to update the BIOS to the latest version for stability reasons.

It wasn’t often, but I DID notice that my system would abruptly crash and reboot (No blue screen, no warning, just like the monitor would turn off and system would reboot) randomly out of nowhere.
It wasn’t enough to give me concern or anything, but still I wanted to identify the issue and get it ironed out. So I finally decided to update the BIOS to the latest version (at time of review- version 1415), I made sure that all of my drivers were the latest versions from Asus’s website, then installed all updates that I had for Windows 11- basically dotted all my i’s and crossed all my t’s.

I’m happy to report that after almost a week or so I haven’t experienced any crash or hiccup and everything seems to be operating stable and no issues to report.

I know that there’s a lot of people complaining about their Asus boards and issues they’re having, but I always take these complaints with a grain of salt because I don’t know how experienced these users are at building pc’s, and more so- troubleshooting issues they may be experiencing or if they even bothered to update their BIOS in the first place. Some users expect a simple plug and play experience (which isn’t unreasonable) but when we are talking about a BRAND NEW platform and chipset- well, as you are aware of, there are sometimes growing pains and a maturation process that just takes a little time.

The quality of this board is TOP NOTCH. It has virtually every feature you could want or need (although 10gb Ethernet at this price point is not asking for too much), the BIOS are robust and take some time to find all the settings, but they’re there! Lol, you can fine-tune and customize every aspect of your system.

Auras Sync works great between all my peripherals and components. I mean, Idk what else to tell you. Board was a first time go. No major issues and after my first BIOS update- NO ISSUES to speak of. It looks great, it works great. That’s what I paid for and I got my money’s worth so far.

I’ve owned 4 or 5 Asus motherboards, used in personal rigs and I’ve never had a problem with any of them. I not only recommend their products but continue to purchase them myself. It would take a lot to get me to purchase a board from another manufacturer at this point, but this is just my opinion and experience.

After a lot of messy about including upgrading my memory to 2x GSkill Z5 NEO 48 GB DDR 5 5600 overclocked to 6000 MT/s, this motherboard has been working very well for a year now. Initialy it would take around 2/3 minutes to boot into windows, but swapping the memory and many BIOS updates have now solved that, and I can start using Windows 10 after 50 seconds or so.

I also have 3 x 4TB M.2 Gen 4 SSDs and 1 x 4TB Gen 5 SSD all of which work perfectly well with this system (and in parallel), the Gen 5 also does not degrading the PCIe GPU lanes with bifurcation (I have a 4090). Machine learning on this machine (NN training, and even LLM inference) works exceptionally fast. With the Ryzen 32 core 7950x CPU also breezing through my heavy ML workloads quite easily, especially coupled with the 96 GB, I can basically leave most things running without any performance degradation.

Now I have achanged my mind about this MB, and would recommend this as its pretty mature, just make sure you buy the right memory to go with it, also I did put in a 1200W PSU.

—Original review 2023
Lots of ticks in boxes for the sales and marketing team, but this board is a serious mess. For the money I
can’t believe its this bad. It’s unstable, ASUS publish BIOS updates that make the system less stable/worse, then ASUS realise this and start to ask people to rollback the BIOS version, or to use a beta version, or dont use a beta version etc. Mixed messages, half tested BIOS updates. The 7950 I am using has hit 96.5 degress regularly and this is without me overclocking anything, I am using a 3 fan 330 radiator AIO where the liquid hits 32 degress, it the AMD spike in clock that causes the fast heat, so not much cooling is going to help that. The main problem is that this MB has never been stable, setting it up is a massive PITA, becuase it can take 5 minutes to boot, or often jumps past the BIOS key press screen, or the BIOS or BOOT screen never even show up on the monitor etc. A few times I’ve needed to reset the CMOS, and these are all things I have never had to do before with my last 5 builds in 4 years. Last build was a 5950 with an Aorus Master, and I had a few problems with USB ports but it was always booting quickly, and easy to get into the BIOS etc. If I could go back in time I would, and not buy into PCIe 5 (No GPUs support it, and NVMe M.2 SSDs PCIe Gen 5 wont be much faster than PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSDs for standard use cases. I would forget the idea of DDR5 being faster than DDR4 (you wont find decent DDR 5 memory that can get to the M/Ts they advertise anyway – doesnt matter what the settings. And overclocking ? Dont make me laugh – you’d need a PhD in embedded electonics, and System design to figure out half the un-documented settings in the BIOS, and luck to get something that can be overclocked, and you dont fry.
This is a scam product, avoid it, use a 4090 with a 5950 and DDR 4, with PCIe Gen 4 for the next 2 years. Upgrade once things start working properly .

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edit: Boot time is now about 15 sec with all the new BIOS updates.

First, the price sucks; it should be about USD 500 or less. Nevertheless, it is a great motherboard.

My setup: 7950x + 2x32GB 6000MHz RAM + Ai1300p + RTX4090 + 4 NVMEs + LS720 Deepcool AIO.

Here are some points:

1. I switched from x399 zenith extreme, so I do miss 64 available lanes vs maybe 24 on x670e hero.
2. You can use 2 gen5 NVME drives without loosing 16x PCIE for the GPU. Most motherboards will bifurcation CPU lanes in strange ways.
3. You can populated 4 NVMEs and still have x16 for GPU.
4. Don’t populated PCIE 2 , you will loose x16 in PCIE 1.
5. Before pluging in any components, do BIOS update via BIOS flash in the back of the motherboard (see videos on YouTube).
6. Hero works with 6000MHz 32GBx2 G.Skill. it was not on the QVL. 0 issues. Make sure that your RAM is connected correctly. It is hard to insert, so take your time.
7. Don’t populated all 4 DIMs if you want the fastest RAM speeds; populate only 2.
8. Asus has the best BIOS interface.
9. USB4 is thunderbolt 4.
10. No 10G LAN, but you will be able to do LAN over USB4.
11. RGB is nice, but it should have a few more connectors.
12. If you don’t want USB4, go with strix 670e-e gaming and save money. Strix is better in many ways. Stay away from extreme.
13. LAN might not work after first Windows install. Just go to Asus driver page and put it on the USB and install.
14. Once LAN works, go to asus website or station-drivers and download all the new drivers.
15. Boot is quick. 40sec to Windows. Maybe not the fastest, but you can read a book while you wait 40sec.
16. Use EXPO II not I under advanced settings in BIOS.
17. Please make sure you have everything unplugged from the USB ports except mouse and keyboard. Most BIOS lags are due to external hardware. Once you have the BIOS setup and windows installed, plug everything back in.

18. If W10/11 is unstable disable the iGPU in BIOs. Also, try disabling USB selective suspend settings in Power Management in Windows.

19. If W11/W10 is unstable and you are running rtx4090, update your rtx4090 bios. You will find them on AIBs support page.

20. Make sure to turn Off the PC every time you make BIOS change. Do not just restart; it will make windows unstable.

Great mobo! Go with Strix if you don’t need USB4. Stay away from extreme. ProArt has weak VRM, it should okay for this gen; but maybe down the line it won’t. If you don’t care about VRM, get TUF series.

No tenia las peliculas de proteccion, no venia sellada la caja, no tiene el protector de socket y pues obviamente venian doblados unos pines del socket
Creo que era una de las que devolvieron por que hasta pasta termica tenia embarrada no da la opcion de reemplazo tampoco