ASUS Crosshair VI Hero or the ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Pro Gaming

Ajvanho

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So I've finally decided to leave DDR3 and after long beach walks, have decided AMD will be my choice for both CPU and GPU for DDR4era as well.
So I've decided on the R5 1600X, and as the ASUS fanboi I am, have chosen the Crosshair VI Hero. Luckily I went to check the board out online and saw a lot of people having them die or crash. Mostly while OC-ing. I do not plan to do manual OC's with Ryzen so am I safe?
But even if I am, which ones would be a better choice for a few years?
I never bought an ASRock mostly because I don't need any of the display ports, I'll be using dedicated GPU's all day so I never bothered with them.

Probably a dumb question, but better safe than sorry. If the issues are real, should I be worried?
 
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Neither. The Taichi, in my opinion and direct experience with an R5 1600x is the best option available. Install and all was easy and flawless. G. Skill Flare-X 2x8 RAM, 960 Evo m.2, and yes, Windows7. Exceptional motherboard. I was impressed with the heft and solid build, nice clean finishes and the ease at which the install and setup went. I updated the BIOS from a thumb drive and set the RAM to 3200. Using both the ASRock and Ryzen Master apps, I can manage this system without issue.

I have not OC'd more than as a test and got 3.95 at stock voltage for a short run. I mucked around a bit then reset to stock. I can't say enough good things about this board. I spent months reading everything on the primary boards, including...

AgentLozen

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The people whose computers die post about it online. Those that work as intended don't have a reason to talk about it. What I'm saying is that you hear a lot more anecdotes about people's PCs exploding then you do of things working.

AMD Ryzen firmware is still in it's early stages, but I'm sure your Asus motherboard will work just fine especially given that you don't plan to overclock it.
 

Ditt44

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Neither. The Taichi, in my opinion and direct experience with an R5 1600x is the best option available. Install and all was easy and flawless. G. Skill Flare-X 2x8 RAM, 960 Evo m.2, and yes, Windows7. Exceptional motherboard. I was impressed with the heft and solid build, nice clean finishes and the ease at which the install and setup went. I updated the BIOS from a thumb drive and set the RAM to 3200. Using both the ASRock and Ryzen Master apps, I can manage this system without issue.

I have not OC'd more than as a test and got 3.95 at stock voltage for a short run. I mucked around a bit then reset to stock. I can't say enough good things about this board. I spent months reading everything on the primary boards, including the ASUS VI and my last three builds were all ASUS boards. In fact, my now retired AM3+ board was a Sabertooth r1 and it is a solid and stable board.

Do your research and read reviews. As AgentLozen said, most posts are negative about any product. Figure 10 good experiences to every one bad.
 
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I have the crosshair VI hero with an 1800X and G.Skill F4-3200C14D-16GTZ DRAM. The only issues I have run into were due to my own fault. I purchased 2 units of 2-set (2 * 8GB) without looking at the fine print in the QVL writeup. The MB only supports a single unit of the 2 * 8GB at 3200 (14-14-14-34 timings). I initially put in all 4 sticks and the MB wouldn't post. After removing 2 sticks, and resetting CMOS) everything came up fine. I was able to run at the advertised timings, load Win10 onto a new NVMe device and bring up my system.

I really am having tons of fun with the new architecture. It is very fast and I haven't even tried to do any overclocking. I will eventually downclock my DRAM and see if I can get the full 32GB to work, but I'm okay with 16GB for right now.

I do recommend the crosshair VI, it is a good MB IMHO.