• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero

Black Haru

Staff member
Joined
Feb 24, 2010
Messages
1,567 (0.29/day)
Location
Indiana
The ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero has premium looks, premium features, a powerful VRM, Thunderbolt 4, four M.2 slots with double-sided heatsinks, dual 2.5 Gb/s LAN, and WiFi 6E. The Maximus XIII Hero could be a compelling candidate for any high-end 11th Gen Intel build.

Show full review
 
Joined
Feb 20, 2019
Messages
8,283 (3.93/day)
System Name Bragging Rights
Processor Atom Z3735F 1.33GHz
Motherboard It has no markings but it's green
Cooling No, it's a 2.2W processor
Memory 2GB DDR3L-1333
Video Card(s) Gen7 Intel HD (4EU @ 311MHz)
Storage 32GB eMMC and 128GB Sandisk Extreme U3
Display(s) 10" IPS 1280x800 60Hz
Case Veddha T2
Audio Device(s) Apparently, yes
Power Supply Samsung 18W 5V fast-charger
Mouse MX Anywhere 2
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys (not Cherry MX at all)
VR HMD Samsung Oddyssey, not that I'd plug it into this though....
Software W10 21H1, barely
Benchmark Scores I once clocked a Celeron-300A to 564MHz on an Abit BE6 and it scored over 9000.
This slew of high-end, ultra-expensive Z590 reviews must have taken a while, but it's a shame the 11900K is such a piece of garbage. I'm not saying you've wasted your time on them but flagship boards for CPU's that are worse than last gen and the competition's midrange? Ouch and a half.

Who wants a $500 motherboard for a chip that's equally overpriced and kind of sucks anyway? I guess the same sort of fanboys who bought flaghship boards to go with AMD's 220W FX-9590 ;)

Even with such a premium board, high-end DDR4, and gear1 timings locked behind this ridiculous flagship product segmentation, The 11900K is still significantly slower than 5800X on an entry-level board using mainstream, affordable DDR4.

Since the only 11th gen chips worth considering seem to be the i5 models, particularly the sub-$200 ones, it would appeal to more people to see reviews of a few $100ish B560 boards.
 
Joined
Apr 10, 2012
Messages
1,400 (0.30/day)
Location
78°55' N, 11°56' E
System Name -aLiEn beaTs-
Processor Intel i7 11700kf @ 5.055Ghz
Motherboard MSI Z490 Unify
Cooling Corsair H115i Pro RGB
Memory G.skill Royal Silver 4400 cl17 @ 4403mhz
Video Card(s) Zotac GTX 980TI AMP!Omega Factory OC 1418MHz
Storage Intel SSD 330, Crucial SSD MX300 & MX500
Display(s) Samsung C24FG73 144HZ
Case CoolerMaster HAF 932 USB3.0
Audio Device(s) X-Fi Titanium HD @ 2.1 Bose acoustimass 5
Power Supply CoolerMaster 850W v2 gold atx 2.52
Mouse Razer viper 8k
Keyboard Logitech G19s
Software Windows 11 Pro 21h2 64Bit
Benchmark Scores ► ♪♫♪♩♬♫♪♭
I found one shop locally new is 250-270e, and can't pass on that deal, also because its the only "reasonably" priced mobo that is capable of running F4-4400C17D-32GTRS
and is on QVL list.

Funny thing same ram but 2x8GB is apparenlty ok on my z490 unify. While 2x16 not and only high end asus z590 .. I know gear2 is slower, but I want to have both options :D
 
Top