ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AMD X870E AM5 ATX Motherboard, Advanced AI PC Ready, 18+2+2 Power Stages, DDR5, PCIe® 5.0, 5X M.2, Wi-Fi 7, USB4®, AI Overclocking, Core Flex, PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim

Completely Unstable – File Corruption, Corrupt Network Traffic, and BSODs
I put together a new system that turned out to be extremely unstable. It took me a long time to narrow the problems down to this motherboard – who would think to even check that? All Steam games of decent size (10gb+) were corrupt after installing. Sometimes the files would fail to verify and sometimes Steam would just complain that the installer was corrupt. Also sporadic BSODs, system hangs, and lots of weird quirks.I thought for sure this must be bad RAM, so I ran days of RAM tests, underclocked my memory, tried one stick at a time, etc. Everything came back OK. Well, then maybe the drive itself is bad. I tried multiple formats/reinstalls of Windows. Some were better than others, but all had weird quirks like failing to install updates, hanging indefinitely on shut down, and sporadic BSODs. I even tried a different drive I had sitting around – same problem. I underclocked my CPU and ran lots of torture tests – all came back fine but the problems persisted.After a couple weeks of doing this, I returned to this page and saw the reviews had steadily declined for this mobo and turned my attention to that. Surely a motherboard couldn’t cause all of these problems – but of course it did. Finally, I turned on Window Driver Verifier and caught the motherboard red handed – multiple ASUS drivers were misbehaving while all other drivers were fine. I swapped this for a different brand x670e and I haven’t had a single problem since. In hind sight, this seems obvious – one place I consistently got a BSOD was in ASUS’s Armoury Crate when installing drivers.Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this mobo. The worst part is that the system boots, works fine for many things (I could play the games I wanted to play with lots of re-downloading) but has lots of little sporadic issues. I was fortunate to buy this at a time which qualified for Amazon’s extended holiday return period, otherwise I would’ve been hosed. As near as I can tell, it’s ASUS’s drivers causing the problems, so an RMA would probably not fix anything.For those technically inclined, among many other issues, this mobo seems to corrupt a very small amount of TCP traffic *after* it’s been checksummed, which is just nuts and causes all sorts of problems. Of course a small amount of corruption multiplied by gigabytes of traffic becomes a huge problem.

He adquirido tarjetas madre de ASUS desde 2014.Nunca me dieron problemas, siempre estables, y cuentan con una plataforma sencilla, ajustes intuitivos, fácil de entender que cambios realizas para obtener los resultados que esperas, o se acercan a lo que buscas.En este caso, me tocó una tarjeta que resultó inestable. Mis sospescheas iniciaron con el arranque, en otro sistema, el arranque tomaba menos de 10 segundos. El inicio podría tomar cerca de dos minutos en una instalación nueva de Windows, se esperaría ese comportamiento la primera vez que se arranca un sistema nuevo, por aquello del “entrenamiento” que realiza Ryzen, no cada vez que se inicia.Más problemas aparecieron un par de semanas después, utilizando Chrome y youtube, empecé a notar que dejaba de responder, al azar, sin manera de replicar el problema. Simplemente ocurría un par de horas después de arrancar, o no ocurría para nada… o bien, un par de horas jugando, entrar a Chrome, y de la nada el sistema dejaba de responder. Había casos en los que probando, la deje toda la noche, con una lista automática en youtube, nada.En algun punto arrojó un error de pantalla azul con un error de “power”. Fue la única ocasion que arrojó un error, y pantalla azul, en ninguna ocasión repitió esto. Usualmente, no respondía y se tenía que forzar el reinicio.Los errores en windows no arrojaban nada concreto, algunos mencionaban compatibilidad de drivers, se actualizaron, mismo resultado, inestablidad.Frustrado, decidí reinstalar Windows, se instalaron drivers y de inmediato al querer ver algo en youtube, deja de responder.Se relizaron pruebas en RAM, no arroja errores, se estresa el CPU, sin problemaSe utilizó un 7800X3D, RAM Corsair Vengeance 6000MT/s.Sin llegar a encontrar solución, opté por la devolución. No tengo comentarios negativos contra el vendedor, simplemente cayó en la estadística de tener una tarjeta madre con problemas.Con una tarjeta madre nueva, el arranque es inmediato, sin problemas.

After a lot of messy about including upgrading my memory to 2x GSkill Z5 NEO 48 GB DDR 5 5600 overclocked to 6000 MT/s, this motherboard has been working very well for a year now. Initialy it would take around 2/3 minutes to boot into windows, but swapping the memory and many BIOS updates have now solved that, and I can start using Windows 10 after 50 seconds or so.I also have 3 x 4TB M.2 Gen 4 SSDs and 1 x 4TB Gen 5 SSD all of which work perfectly well with this system (and in parallel), the Gen 5 also does not degrading the PCIe GPU lanes with bifurcation (I have a 4090). Machine learning on this machine (NN training, and even LLM inference) works exceptionally fast. With the Ryzen 32 core 7950x CPU also breezing through my heavy ML workloads quite easily, especially coupled with the 96 GB, I can basically leave most things running without any performance degradation.Now I have achanged my mind about this MB, and would recommend this as its pretty mature, just make sure you buy the right memory to go with it, also I did put in a 1200W PSU.—Original review 2023Lots of ticks in boxes for the sales and marketing team, but this board is a serious mess. For the money I can’t believe its this bad. It’s unstable, ASUS publish BIOS updates that make the system less stable/worse, then ASUS realise this and start to ask people to rollback the BIOS version, or to use a beta version, or dont use a beta version etc. Mixed messages, half tested BIOS updates. The 7950 I am using has hit 96.5 degress regularly and this is without me overclocking anything, I am using a 3 fan 330 radiator AIO where the liquid hits 32 degress, it the AMD spike in clock that causes the fast heat, so not much cooling is going to help that. The main problem is that this MB has never been stable, setting it up is a massive PITA, becuase it can take 5 minutes to boot, or often jumps past the BIOS key press screen, or the BIOS or BOOT screen never even show up on the monitor etc. A few times I’ve needed to reset the CMOS, and these are all things I have never had to do before with my last 5 builds in 4 years. Last build was a 5950 with an Aorus Master, and I had a few problems with USB ports but it was always booting quickly, and easy to get into the BIOS etc. If I could go back in time I would, and not buy into PCIe 5 (No GPUs support it, and NVMe M.2 SSDs PCIe Gen 5 wont be much faster than PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSDs for standard use cases. I would forget the idea of DDR5 being faster than DDR4 (you wont find decent DDR 5 memory that can get to the M/Ts they advertise anyway – doesnt matter what the settings. And overclocking ? Dont make me laugh – you’d need a PhD in embedded electonics, and System design to figure out half the un-documented settings in the BIOS, and luck to get something that can be overclocked, and you dont fry.This is a scam product, avoid it, use a 4090 with a 5950 and DDR 4, with PCIe Gen 4 for the next 2 years. Upgrade once things start working properly .

Very unstable. Can’t even turn on expo without my whole pc crashing over and over again. I can’t even enter the bios. 6000 mhz cl30 ram