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ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero

Intel said that AI CPU do not sell well, and ARL may be such victim. Anyway ARL prices are dropping very quickly, compared to predecessors,
 
I wonder how many of these Asus will sell?

Arrow Lake on desktop feels so much like AMD's Bulldozer years - worse than its own predecessors in many ways, and at a point where a struggling CPU manufacturer really needed a win instead of a disappointing performance.

At least with Bulldozer it was on the AM3+ platform that supported so many different generations of CPU, including the generation after Bulldozer - so expensive AM3+ motherboards for an underwhelming CPU weren't quite as stupid as this Maximus Hero is for a socket that has already been cancelled without anything very good to put in it.
 
9950X? That cant be right. Right?

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Ravenmaster said:
This is a really nice board. Shame not many will buy it though because it has to be paired with such lacklustre CPU's.
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I highly agree..
 
Chrispy_ said:
I wonder how many of these Asus will sell?

Arrow Lake on desktop feels so much like AMD's Bulldozer years - worse than its own predecessors in many ways, and at a point where a struggling CPU manufacturer really needed a win instead of a disappointing performance.

At least with Bulldozer it was on the AM3+ platform that supported so many different generations of CPU, including the generation after Bulldozer - so expensive AM3+ motherboards for an underwhelming CPU weren't quite as stupid as this Maximus Hero is for a socket that has already been cancelled without anything very good to put in it.
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The only reason why you wanted the highest end AM3+ motherboard was because of the,

VRM Design
Cooling
Overclocking
And extra's such as up to 4x PCI-E slots to run both Crossfire or SLI.

I owned one, it was capable of doing an insane 360Mhz FSB - the norm was 200Mhz back in the days. So the "free" performance coming from such a board was always welcome.
 
Jism said:
The only reason why you wanted the highest end AM3+ motherboard was because of the,

VRM Design
Cooling
Overclocking
And extra's such as up to 4x PCI-E slots to run both Crossfire or SLI.

I owned one, it was capable of doing an insane 360Mhz FSB - the norm was 200Mhz back in the days. So the "free" performance coming from such a board was always welcome.
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Yeah, for the Z890 it's a little more questionable since the 285K is easy to overclock, according to reviews, but overclocking produces very little extra performance compared to older Intels, so you could be pulling down 370W and still failing to beat 14th Gen, with an even wider gap to catch up Zen5.

If your hobby is just pushing a CPU as fast as it can go, you don't care about performance, and you're crazy enough to buy Arrow Lake for this particular endeavour, then this is the motherboard for you! It does seem like a set of non-intersecting Venn-diagram circles though. Anyone into overclocking probably cares about performance and anyone with this much money probably wants the best which most certainly isn't Arrow-Lake, even if you restrict yourself only to Intel platforms!
 
Why such differences for the H265 encoding test ?
The ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi is about 25% faster than the ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero ! This ASUS is actually much slower than all other motherboards in this test.

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Cergy said:
Why such differences for the H265 encoding test ?
The ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi is about 25% faster than the ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero ! This ASUS is actually much slower than all other motherboards in this test.

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There's a huge variance between boards in a bunch of the tests, not just H265 encoding. It's behind even cheaper B860 boards in CP2077, for example.

Arrow Lake results just seem to be all over the place, period.
 
I have this board and I have to say this review is spot on. I believe it is a nice board - that said - The SlimSAS cable should be included, the lower heatsink is way too large, the lack of a faster 10Gbps lan, and the price is outrageous but may be something we have to get used to in the future.
 
Included a ROG bottle opener??

With a price of $700 a m.2 heatsink would have been a nice accessory addition.
 
ro9ue01 said:
Included a ROG bottle opener??

With a price of $700 a m.2 heatsink would have been a nice accessory addition.
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It probably costs less to make an m.2 heatsink than a bottle opener, too!

IMO, since this board already has all the M.2 heatsinks you need, a basic M.2 nvme enclosure would be a valuable addition. Those 5Gbps ones can't cost more that a couple of dollars to make if they sell for under ten bucks.
 
I know this board ain't for me but, who is this made for?
 
Will buy in 10 years as long as it doesnt kill cpus at random.

Jism said:
I owned one, it was capable of doing an insane 360Mhz FSB - the norm was 200Mhz back in the days.
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Lol, even lousy ASrock 970 Boards could do 350 FSB. 360 is hardly insane for AM3(+)
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What discourages you from buying this motherboard is not the absurd price, but rather the irrelevant Intel Core Ultra and the end of new processors for the LGA-1851 socket, as they are already talking about the LGA-1954.
 
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