[PConline evaluation] AMD Rui Long CPU has been on the market for more than half a month, and Ruilong dedicated AM4 motherboard has also been out of stock to sell out of stock, indicating that the user AMD Rui Long is still very much recognized. Accompanied by the rise of Ruilong and pressing Intel Core, a quiet player country series for many years - CROSSHAIR has once again returned to everyone's vision. One of the star models in the first batch of X370 motherboards is ASUS's player country CROSSHAIR VI HERO (C6H), which is also our first dedicated AMD Ryzen 7 1800X motherboard. Let's give everyone a detailed run today.
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Out of the box: still familiar with ROG style
The box is still dominated by red, and the eye of a disdain in the upper right corner is enough to highlight its high end. After opening the box, it is the motherboard and some ROG standard accessories.
Motherboard front
The design style is synchronized with the ROG MAXIMUS IX series. If you block the CPU socket and motherboard name above, it is basically impossible to see whether it is the MAXIMUS or the CROSSHAIR series. The motherboard's AURA lamp effects are all in line with the MAXIMUS, which is quite cool.
South Bridge's defeat
The design of this South Bridge Radiator is exactly the same as that of the M9H, which is a model of the HERO suffix.
M.2 SSD interface
The south bridge chip is equipped with a NVMe M.2 SSD interface on the underside and directly connected to the CPU channel. The theoretical maximum bandwidth is 32 Gb/s, which is enough for the most powerful SSD on the market.
PCIe expansion slot
3 long PCIe 3.0 slots, X370 support NVIDIA SLI and AMD CF, top Ryzen 7 1800X with two high-end graphics cards is still very powerful.
SATA 3.0 interface
In terms of the number of SATA interfaces, AMD has always been more than Intel, but under normal circumstances, players who plug in 6 ports are not too much, but also enough.
Front panel USB 3.1 interface
There are a few chassis that already support the front panel USB 3.1 interface, which is more user-friendly and user-friendly. This interface takes the native channel of the AMD X370 motherboard chipset.
Motherboard back I/O interface
Compared to Intel's board, this side of the I/O interface is a lot of luxury (Intel motherboard has less than 8 USB ports), here provides 8 x USB 3.0 interface, 4 x USB 2.0 interface and a Group USB 3.1 A + C interface, in addition there is a reset button and BIOS empty key, the other is a conventional interface.
The first batch of motherboards was priced at 2,799 yuan. However, due to the hotness of the Ruilong CPU, the supply of the motherboard was also not able to keep up with demand. Most of the e-commerce channels are in short supply, which means that high-end users are still quite numerous. And currently this price, the most suitable with the 1800X is indeed this piece of C6H, after all, is AMD's first test specified board, or very reliable.
Dismantling: The use of materials overclocking is guaranteed
CPU power supply module
The power supply part uses a 6+6-phase digital power supply, which is easy for the 95W Ruilong CPU. Even if there is room for overclocking, black gold capacitors and powdered alloy inductors are standard on ROG motherboards this year.
4×DDR4 memory slots
Supports four dual-channel DDR4 memory slots. After a new BIOS is installed in our evaluation room, it can support up to two channels of 3,200 MHz. It is believed that DDR4 will increase in frequency in the next year or two.
AM4 CPU socket
AM4 (1331 pin) is much higher than previous AM3 (938 pin) and AM3+ pin counts. Therefore, the pin density is increased a lot. When mounting, be careful to handle it gently. Make sure to fully align the hole position with the card. Withhold pressure.
ASUS SupremeFX Audio Technology
Japanese Nichicon professional audio capacitors, electromagnetic shield, supplemented with exclusive Sonic StudioIII software, make the sound more in line with their needs, more accurate game positioning.
Onboard function keys
From left to right are the power button, the reset button, the security power button, the test BIOS button, and the BIOS switching lever, which are very practical for overclocking players.
Onboard NIC chip
Intel Gigabit LAN & LANGuard surge protection chips allow you to better deal with network data while avoiding shock hazards. AMD's motherboard Intel chip is not very 666, in fact, it does not matter with AMD, is determined by the ASUS. The above I211AT chip is also very mature and easy to use network card chip, strong performance, most of the driver software can easily drive it, some third-party system installation package will bring its own driver, it is very convenient .
Power module cooling fins
I/O backplane M.2 wireless network adapter reserved interface
If you have a wireless network card for desktop computers, you can add your own M.2 wireless network card and leave your options to players.
ASM1143 USB 3.1 Solution
Just mentioned, X370 is native USB 3.1 support, this ROG C6H native USB 3.1 design to the front panel expansion interface, so the motherboard back I / O interface at the USB 3.1 requires a third-party chip support.
Light efficiency is still very slippery
After dismantling, ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO material is a standard ROG configuration, power supply module 6 + 6 phase power overclocking are no pressure, and network cards, USB 3.1, etc. are using the industry's software and hardware can perfectly support the program, but also It is quite user-friendly, and the I/O interface also reserves M.2 WIFI interface for players to choose, and the lighting efficiency has been aligned with the MAXIMUS IX series.
â— Theoretical performance test:
Test platform screenshot
List of test platforms
The motherboard is an extension of the CPU. The effect on performance is whether it can provide a good environment for the CPU to work continuously and stably.
â— Test description:
M.2 SSD: Samsung 960 Pro 2TB graphics card ASUS GTX1070 Dragon Knight
Fritz Chess Benchmark
CineBench R15 x64
3DMARK Physics Score
3D game performance test:
Ghost Action Wildland Disk Read-Write Test:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.6
Most of the above software is used to test the performance of CPUs, graphics cards, and SSDs. The purpose is to test whether the motherboard can make the hardware mounted on it stable.
â— Ruilong AMD Ryzen Master Utility
AMD Ryzen Master Utility
Using AMD's self-developed overclocking tool "AMD Ryzen Master Utility", (this official name is long...) We control the frequency of the AMD Ryzen7 1800X processor at 4.0 GHz, and the memory frequency is overclocked to 3200 MHz. Test for 16-16-16-39, compare the frequency performance:
After the overclocking, the performance of the AMD Ryzen7 1800X processor has been greatly improved. After several overclocking performance tests, the performance has been improved by over 10%. ASUS ROG C6H overclocking performance is quite good, but also with the price is not only the price is not high overclocking three East China Sea X5, if you choose better heat sink performance, I believe that overclocking will be more relaxed, performance can be stronger.
â— Frequency full load temperature test:
In the temperature test section, we mainly examined the problems of the CPU power supply of the mainboard. This part of the temperature is the place where the main board generates a large amount of heat, and it is also the key to the stability of the mainboard. We used the Fluke Ti25 thermal imager to test and recorded two data when idle (CPU, video card is empty) and full load (CPU full, video card is empty).
Idle (left), full load (right)
Thanks to ASUS ROG C6H's 6+6-phase powdered alloy digital power supply, the 95W Ryzen 8 1800X is still capable of controlling the temperature at 56°C after full load. In a motherboard, it can be considered as a very low full-load temperature, which is excellent. So even if you want to try overclocking to improve performance, there is still room for overclocking.
â—PConline evaluation room summary:
ASUS player country CROSSHAIR VI HERO is currently the player country's first AM4 motherboard, shouldering the responsibility of revitalizing the CROSSHAIR series reputation, its performance is still very eye-catching, after all, can consistently play the full performance of Ruilong Ryzen, but also easily overclocking .
Excellent scalability, equipped with a variety of new high-speed interfaces, such as the front panel and rear USB 3.1 interface, M.2 SSD interface, rich PCIe slots, to meet the majority of players for high-speed interfaces and large-capacity disk Needed.
The motherboard is priced at 2799 yuan, which is not expensive, and it is not cheap to say that it is cheaper. After all, it is used with the high-end Ryzen 7 motherboard, the Intel side is the supreme level i7, over there X99 motherboard 2K is also the starting price, right?
Lighting effect is also completely inherited MAXIMUS side of the HERO model design, is also the best AM4 motherboard to do the lighting effect, with ASUS's own Dragon Knight, ROG STRIX graphics and ROG's several models can be passed AURA software To achieve light synchronization, suitable for playing lights lovers.
It is recommended to use with Ryzen 7 1800(X). Of course, the graphics card is recommended with high-end N card. After all, A card is currently only RX480 optional, with Ryzen 7 is still slightly worse ~
M.2 SSD: Samsung 960 Pro 2TB Graphics ASUS GTX1070 Dragon Knight
Fritz Chess Benchmark
CineBench R15 x64
3DMARK Physics Score
3D game performance test:
Ghost Action Wildland Disk Read-Write Test:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.6
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