Friday, March 30th 2018
ASUS ROG Crosshair VII X470 Motherboard Leaked
ASUS' top of the line X470 motherboard for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 200 series of CPUs has seen some sexy leaked images of it on the web. The new motherboard features, among other things, full drop-in support for AMD'snew 2000 series CPUs - without the need for any BIOS fiddling. The software features are expected to be on par with its X370 counterpart, with some added magic dust thrown in for the sake of keeping things fresh.
Hardware-wise, though, there are some slight changes as well. The most relevant of these is the addition of a second M.2 slot, for users who want to take their builds based on this form-factor to another level - smaller drives than the usual 2.5" is always welcome - and they usually look much better as well. One of the M.2 slots features a pre-installed heatsink for better heat dissipation. Other features include 6 SATA III ports (a decline from the X370 version's 8 due to the inclusion of the extra M.2 slot) and two less USB slots (from a total of 14 in the X370 to 12 on the X470) in exchange for a PS/2 port... Arguably the strangest "improvement" to the design. The heatsink design has been slightly reworked as well, in an effort to keep things fresh, but the power delivery mechanism seems to be the same. Don't ruin what works, right?
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Hardware-wise, though, there are some slight changes as well. The most relevant of these is the addition of a second M.2 slot, for users who want to take their builds based on this form-factor to another level - smaller drives than the usual 2.5" is always welcome - and they usually look much better as well. One of the M.2 slots features a pre-installed heatsink for better heat dissipation. Other features include 6 SATA III ports (a decline from the X370 version's 8 due to the inclusion of the extra M.2 slot) and two less USB slots (from a total of 14 in the X370 to 12 on the X470) in exchange for a PS/2 port... Arguably the strangest "improvement" to the design. The heatsink design has been slightly reworked as well, in an effort to keep things fresh, but the power delivery mechanism seems to be the same. Don't ruin what works, right?
23 Comments on ASUS ROG Crosshair VII X470 Motherboard Leaked
Didn't @ least one of the Meltdown patches, a while back, brake USB ports functionality on some systems? Perhaps i'm remembering wrong: not sure.
I mean, I have around six or seven ports constantly in use (keyboard, mouse, a gamepad, printer, WiFi dongle, speakers and sometimes a flash drive) so I don't really know if there are a lot of people who actually need 14 ports in the back...
Also, I don't really think many people will miss having 8 SATA ports. Though I guess you could add more through expansion cards.
Hoping they will relase CH VII Extreme later. 90 degree ATX24, E-ATX and more.
The USB controller craps out, you're out of luck.
With a redundant PS2 port it's still possible to make use of it if only to order another one.... And I've had to use a crippled board to order it's replacement before, not fun but I got it done.
I'm glad to see it's included even if most aren't.
For instance the assumption that the VRM is identical to that on the CHVII is likely off the mark, in fact chances are it is. There may be changes made there and the will be a reason why this was done. That is worth investigating in the eventual review, but the way motherboard testing is done these days, I have little to no hope of this, outside of what Der8auer's Youtube channel doing it.
Either way, CHVI was the most solid offering of the entire X370 outside of the teething issues (measured results, not LED's and fan headers as comparison), I've little to no reason to think the CHVII won't repeat this if not by an even wider margin. Mid April can't come soon enough for sure. :)
Despite whatever issues that may have existed, AMD has once again sent out their Media packs with an ROG board obviously and their CPUs. They must have some confidence in this combination of hardware. At worst it simply has to be better than the first time around. AMD has got this under control :)
When i got my new Ryzen system, i already knew that i would trouble installing Windows 7 because the USB ports were all disabled (both my keyboard and mouse are USB only).
I got so fed up with it that i ditched Windows, permanently: currently using Ubuntu.
A nice case by the way. And it has a 5.25" drive bay. I'll consider getting this one when I build my next PC, since I still kinda use a Blu-ray drive and I have other three drives (two HDDs and one SSD), and plan to add more.Oh, I had trouble installing Windows 7 because of USB 3.0 controllers not being natively supported. The computer froze every time Windows 7 Setup finished loading. So as a workaround I went into UEFI and set the controllers to USB 2.0 only or something like that. Worked perfectly, and once I installed the drivers I turned USB 3.0 support back on.
It was not only that, really: between Windows trying to "force me" to upgrade to version 10 and that, not being able to properly install version 7 was the final straw.
But enough off topic.
Logitech adapters wont work with microsoft mice
For me no real high end hardware without ASUS ROG Motherboards from hard box.
They have special pack for Rampage Extreme, Crosshair Extreme, Maximus Extreme and Formula, Zenith Extreme.
They are necessary part of my builds.
I would like to ASUS start to launch mATX boards, similar like Maximus X Code or etc... same segment only smaller. Because Strix mATX is lower segment.
Why someone with single GPU to build in ATX motherboard. I'm more for E-ATX for Intel Xtreme or mATX for Intel Mainstream.
Seasonic 600W Fanless PSU, small motherboard, some nice watercooling, aluminium case, etc...