Thursday, August 4th 2022
ASUS Unveils the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero and ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme
During AMD's Meet the Experts event, ASUS revealed more details about its ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme, a board the company revealed during Computex, but didn't show the rear I/O of. However, ASUS also unveiled the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero, a board the company hadn't shown off prior to the AMD event. Both boards will feature a pair of USB4 ports, with both ports supporting DisplayPort Alt Mode. Both boards feature a further two USB-C ports, plus seven plus USB-A ports. The Extreme features 10 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, whereas the Hero gets to make do with 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, although it gains an HDMI output. Both boards have a full set of audio jacks and WiFi 6E support, as well as a rear mounted clear CMOS and BIOS FlashBack button.
Taking a closer look at the Hero board, it has two PCIe x16 PCIe slots, plus a single, open-ended PCIe x1 slot. The board supports four M.2 NVMe slots for SSDs and comes with a PCIe 5.0 card for a fifth drive. It also has what appears to be six SATA ports, a front header for a 20 Gbps USB 3.2 2x2 USB-C port that also supports up to 60 W USB PD and Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+. The Hero board will be kitted out with an 18 phase power design, with the Extreme getting a 22 phase design, both with a 110 Ampere power stage. ASUS has moved its audio solution to the ALC4082 USB based audio codec and at least the Extreme will have an ESS ES9218 audio codec. ASUS is also bringing over the Q-Release solution for graphics cards to these boards, as well as the Q-Latch for M.2 SSDs.
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Taking a closer look at the Hero board, it has two PCIe x16 PCIe slots, plus a single, open-ended PCIe x1 slot. The board supports four M.2 NVMe slots for SSDs and comes with a PCIe 5.0 card for a fifth drive. It also has what appears to be six SATA ports, a front header for a 20 Gbps USB 3.2 2x2 USB-C port that also supports up to 60 W USB PD and Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+. The Hero board will be kitted out with an 18 phase power design, with the Extreme getting a 22 phase design, both with a 110 Ampere power stage. ASUS has moved its audio solution to the ALC4082 USB based audio codec and at least the Extreme will have an ESS ES9218 audio codec. ASUS is also bringing over the Q-Release solution for graphics cards to these boards, as well as the Q-Latch for M.2 SSDs.
57 Comments on ASUS Unveils the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero and ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme
both ports support dp-alt mode. Will the video output be from the iGPU or can they tunnel DP output from a dGPU?
The dual EPS connectors aren't really needed, one of them is enough.
The 6-pin connector by the 24-pin ATX connector is only if you want to use USB PD charging, so optional as well.
In reference to above it does kind of suck though because budget boards are going to have paltry Pcie allocation for full adapter cards or capture cards.
As such, the Intel chips can only do 32 Gbps, while ASMedia can do 40 Gbps.
Since pcie tunelling by definition uses encoding and crc redundancy to correct errors, TB4 and USB4 will not use whole 40gbps (for pcie tunneling). There is overhead per the pcie standard.
Also 4 lanes of pcie4.0 translates into 64 Gbps data rate max… so even if AsMedia’s solution is pcie4.0, it’s not utilizing the entire available pcie4.0 bandwidth per port.
A PCIe 4.0 x4 interface supports 64 Gbps, so you get one USB4 port that can do 40 Gbps of data and the second can still do 20 Gbps, whereas the Intel PCIe 3.0 Thunderbolt chips can only do 32 Gbps in total, so they're not even reaching full USB4 speeds. See above, but yes, you're not wrong.
guess there’s only a matter of time before actual hardware makes its way to consumers so we can test.
It will be, I talked to them. I know one of the founders and VP's of the company, as I've been covering them since they started. He could of course have been lying to me, but I doubt it.
I wrote a few pages long article about USB4, in case you missed it.
www.techpowerup.com/review/usb4-guide-info-technology-details/
as far as pure usb4 devices, will be interesting to see how much or if they’re any faster than thunderbolt devices. But as I understand it,
USB4 by itself does not provide any generic data transfer mechanism or device classes like USB 3.x, but serves mostly as a way to tunnel other protocols like USB 3.2, DisplayPort, and optionally PCIe. While it does provide a native Host-to-Host protocol, as the name implies it is only available between two connected hosts; it is used to implement Host IP Networking. Therefore, when the host and device do not support optional PCIe tunneling, the maximum non-display bandwidth is limited to USB 3.2 20 Gbit/s, while only USB 3.2 10 Gbit/s is mandatory. Thus, to achieve faster than 20 Gbps speeds, usb4 will need to tunnel pcie … which as already stated has overhead due to encoding and crc.
Also the other consideration is usb4 and tb4 cables. We know they support pcie tunelling. But as I understand it, they only support pcie 3.0 tunneling. I could be wrong. But if I am correct, then even with a usb4 pcie4 host, the wire itself will gate the max data transfer.
We’ll be able to test soon
USB4 doesn't support host IP networking like Thunderbolt, Intel made sure of that.
If you don't want to read the article, at least look at this table on Wikipedia?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4#USB_3.x_%E2%80%93_4.x_data_transfer_modes
I'm not buying you git's stop showing me stuff.:p :D