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Asus ROG Maximus X Hero (Z370) Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the Asus ROG Maximus X Hero (Z370) Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) at default clock speed of 3.7GHz (turbo boost 4.5GHz), as well as 8GB of G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 ram in dual channel mode.

All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds of 4.2GHz at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

 

CPU Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) @ 3.7GHz / Turbo @ 4.5GHz
Cooling Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 240 AIO CPU cooler
Motherboard Asus ROG Maximus X Hero (Z370)
Ram 2 x 4GB G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200
XMP 2.0 profiles Memory timings : 15-15-15-35 @1.35v
SSD/HDD Patriot Hellfire PCIE M.2 256GB SSD
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower RGB 750W
VGA card Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5
Nvidia Drivers Latest GeForce Drivers v388.13 – WHQL
OS Windows 10

 

AIDA64 Info

 

CPU-Z Info

 

Idle Temps

Temperatures for idle looks normal at around 39 degrees Celsius. It’s what I expected as there’s no activity.

 

Load Temps

With the system at full load, here we see the temperature jump to a high of 89 degrees Celsius. It’s acceptable and it’s what I expected. No issues with normal system operation.

To cool your CPU better, we highly recommend a powerful/high-end AIO cooler or a large heatsink with a powerful high air-flow fan.

 

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2 comments

Funky Kit 15 November 2017 at 01:09

What a great motherboard. This will be my next purchase!

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paul r 26 January 2018 at 00:42

Sounds like it eh.

Hope you have better luck than I, have been fighting ghost in the machine for a few days now…hope it clears up…I’m using the 8700k cpu and 32gb ram.

New stuff, odds are you’ll be a beta for a bit.

Upside, once everything works, you’ll have a board that probably lasts as long as my old one (14 years) and was still actually useful in the later years for gaming…

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