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  • invinciblegod - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    They better put fins on that heatsink or else it will overheat!
  • Sweetbabyjays - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    Who needs fins when you have RGB...
  • Ninhalem - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    Nah it will be fine with that large amount of flat space. You would be amazed at how much heat a flat surface gives off through natural convection, and especially radiation. Throw in some forced convection, and that flat plate will put out a decent amount of heat.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    This is progress, when things move backward.

    Look at some old boards and they have proper non-gaudy extremely finned and big sinks on them.

    If you're going to go gaudy then at least bother to offer the same feature set found on Intel boards, like one of those VRM coolers that can be used with air and water.

    It's funny how Ryzen buyers are getting fewer features but still high prices. Want the sort of hybrid VRM cooling that's been around on Intel for 5 years? Ha. Buy a separate block and pay more.
  • Hul8 - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    I thought the X370 chipset only had PCIe 2.0 downstream?
  • msroadkill612 - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    Un clear. yes, chipset gets 4 pcie3 lanes total, & from that providees 4 x pcie2 lanes among other things.

    ryzen has a further 20 x pcie3 lanes - 16 x for gpu, & 4x for the onboard nvme m.2 port.

    exact allocation options depends on mobo. see manual.
  • Hul8 - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    What I meant was that the article said:

    > There is a third full-length slot on the board supporting a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection via the chipset which buyers can use for three-way CrossfireX using dual-slot video cards.

    which clearly can't be true if the chipset only has PCIe 2.x downstream.

    No product page exists for this motherboard, yet.
  • Hul8 - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    I was talking about the chipset. The 16+4 PCIe 3.0 off the CPU are not relevant.
  • Rοb - Sunday, July 23, 2017 - link

    There's a product page, didn't see a "Manual".

    @TemjinGoldm About the other Memory:

    [Memory]
    AMD Ryzen™ Processors
    4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 3200(O.C.)/2666/2400/2133 MHz ECC and non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory *
    AMD 7th Generation A-series/Athlon™ Processors
    4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 2400/2133 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory *
    Dual Channel Memory Architecture
    * Hyper DIMM support is subject to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs.

    @Hul8: About the PCIe:

    [Expansion Slots]
    AMD Ryzen™ Processors
    2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8) *2
    AMD 7th Generation A-series/Athlon™ Processors
    1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x8 mode)
    AMD X370 chipset
    1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (max at x4 mode) *3
    3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 *3

    [Note]
    *2 The PCIEX8_2 slot shares bandwidth with M.2_2
    *3 The PCIEX4_3 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX1_1, PCIEX1_2, PCIEX1_3 slots
  • TemjinGold - Thursday, July 27, 2017 - link

    Thanks. Unfortunately, my mobo manual says the same thing for the memory so I can't assume it works. Sadly, if they made it so I could use my currently ram at 3200 without much fuss, that would probably be worth the price for me right there...
  • TemjinGold - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    Does DDR4-3200 work without needing special ram?
  • Lolimaster - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    Just get samsung b-dies, tons off DDR4 3200+ kits for Ryzen on forums, google.
  • Lolimaster - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    Would love an Asus X370 Pro 2.0 with black and some orange details.
  • Lolimaster - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    All the gamer bling replaced vrm, chipst cooling with thick aluminum fins and heatpipes to connect them for more cool plastic -_-.
  • Arbie - Thursday, July 20, 2017 - link

    I wonder if the BIOS for this board will have the same defective PCIe slot enumeration as the CH6. Asus has been told of this repeatedly and has had months to fix it, with no apparent action taken.

    Instead, all efforts focus on OC and tweaking memory speeds... Then development time runs out and it's off to the next mobo series.
  • Jolgc - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link

    May I know your puce device? And which memory do you use for your C6H mobo?
  • Jolgc - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link

    New Bios 1403 have improved many AMD issues
    Please download it, and try on your mobo again.
    If the question still occur, please tell us the detail of your PCIE card.
    Thanks!

    https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI...

    ROG CROSSHAIR VI EXTREME's BIOS is the newest one, if you buy it you don't need to worry about the problem. Thanks!
  • OrphanageExplosion - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    All this effort out into overclocking for a chip that basically won't go above 4.05 to 4.10GHz?
  • Santoval - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    You can overclock it to 5.8 Ghz if you use LN2 at a core voltage of 1.97v. Hey, this card even has an "LN2 mode"! ;)
  • meacupla - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    One of these manufacturers really needs to make a dual GPU capable ryzen mATX board, but also one that doesn't require 5 slots to fit said GPUs.
  • msroadkill612 - Friday, July 21, 2017 - link

    "There are a total of two M.2 ports - one uses the PCH/M.2 heatsink, and another which does not"

    the norm if using both for nvme, is for one to be full speed 4 lane pcie3, direct to cpu, and other to be slower 4 x pcie2 lanes via the chipset.

    I presume it it the faster one which is most in need of the heatsink.
  • Jolgc - Thursday, August 10, 2017 - link

    Both of the M.2 slot support 4 Lane PCIE3, however the one without cooler heat-sink share the bend width with PCIE X8 slot. So if you only use one graphic card and one m.2 device, I recommend you to use under heat-sink's one.
  • Gastec - Sunday, August 13, 2017 - link

    The page title "ASUS Introduces ROG Crosshair VI Extreme AM4 Motherboard for Ryzen" has a self-referencing link. Perhaps a copy-paste error?

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