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ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero

Black Haru

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@Black Haru @W1zzard - BUMP for the existing questions above and a new question (I can't edit the above post so I have to double post).

One other thing, for power delivery, you mention 1080A... these are 90A parts, so that means 12 phases for Vcore? The site says 16 in 14+2. Did I miss something?


Above I meant......
EDIT3: Sorry... the specs table is borked with this board, yes? The expansion slots show 3x PCIe 4.0 x16 slots and 3x PCie 4.0 x1 slots. In looking at the board, there is only one x1 slot. The full-size slots are correct.

Fixed for both, good catch.
 
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Hi,
This is a nice board
If it and 5k amd would of dropped before z490 and 10900k It would of been mine :)

Bloat wise I don't have any of it installed on z490 so doubt you really need it on this board either turn off in bios to auto install :D
 
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Few years back when they did the asus maximus you could flash them with the Rampage Bios. And get a free upgrade, I wonder if its still possible with the dark hero bios?
 
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My 5950X , cant wait for it :)
 

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Keyboard G413
Got my DARK HERO at Micro Center , was 24 at 3am , place my order , then exchange my ASUS ROG E X570 , that's all she wrote.
OC switching is amazing:D

 

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The annoying thing about this board is that you cannot set the pump rpm (custom loop) in BIOS, it always runs at 100% rpm. To set the pump rpm curve, you have to use the AI suite. Fortunately, the AI suite happens to work wonder.
 
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