Asus ROG maximus VIII hero vs hero alpha

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9third

9third

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The hero alpha looks like its a newer board but I was just wondering if it was worth the extra $50 on pcpartpicker. If this helps, I wont be using the wifi and I am planning to overclock with a Cryorig a40 ultimate to around 4.6 ghz with an intel i5 6600k.
 
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6R1M01R3

6R1M01R3

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Depends on if you need the premiums the Alpha has over the regular VIII Hero

5-Way Optimization auto-tuning technology:
- It will adjust and balance between performance, ultra-quiet, and/or power-saving modes.

Pro Clock technology with TurboV Processing Unit (TPU) to turbo-charge the base clock (BCLK) frequency on your skylake CPU.

Supports up to DDR4 3800+ memory.

Dual NVM Express (NVMe) U.2 sockets.
- It allows combination with the SSD (Solid State Drive) M.2 slots to allow insane 3-way RAID setups and data transfer speeds of up to 32Gbps.

Thunderbolt 3 Type-C port.

Wi-Fi with multi-user MIMO.
- This improves the performance of your wireless by allowing multiple connections in and out at the same time.

Bluetooth V4.1.

Aura RGB Strip headers.
- 4-pin extension cable to facilitate RGB LED lighting around your motherboard with animations (static, strobe, breathing, colour-cycle, music effect, or CPU temperature indicator).

The VIII Hero will overclock just as good as the Alpha, since manual OC doesn't make any use of the 5-way optimization.
 
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