ASUS RoG Crosshair VI Extreme X370 Motherboard Review

Peter Donnell / 6 years ago

Final Thoughts

Pricing

The ASUS RoG Crosshair VI Extreme X370 Motherboard is packed full of high-end features, so it comes with a high-end price. You’ll need to fork up around £300 for the privilege. Shop around though, we’ve seen a few come and go for a little under £300, and a majority of stores listing a little over £300.

Overview

I must admit that I do like this motherboard, it has a lot of cool features that are really appealing for the X370 platform and anyone looking to invest in Ryzen. The main problem for this motherboard right now, is that X299 is going strong, Z370 is around, and some of the other X370 boards on the market a little faster when it comes to outright performance. However, if you can snap this board up at the right price and it’s mostly a productivity, content creation workhorse such as game streaming, it’ll be a great addition to your build.

Added Value

As I said, this motherboard does have a lot of compelling features. The motherboard offers up dual M.2 mounts, and there’s an M.2 PCH heatsink for one of them, allowing you to squeeze more performance under heavy usage.

It’s got loads of cool RGB lighting too, giving you plenty of visual customisation to play around with. Not everyone is sold on RGB lighting, and you can turn it off. However, this is by far one of the nicest looking motherboards on the market right now, from the rear I/o to the PCH heatsink, it’s drop-dead gorgeous.

It’s got some of the best audio hardware on the market too, thanks to SupremeFX S1220, Sonic Studio III, ES9023P DAC, and 120dB SNR output, and 113dB SNR recording. That’s going to appeal to streamers and content creators a lot.

Gaming, streaming, uploading videos, etc, all of this needs good networking hardware to get the most from your system. With Intel Gigabit Ethernet, LANGuard GameFirst and 2×2 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MU-MIMO support, you’ll not be left wanting here.

Build Quality

It may not lead the charge in terms of performance, but it’s a really well made motherboard and that durability should translate to round the clock stability. ASUS Safeslot, and dual BIOS, ProCool Power Connector, a BIOS LED, onboard controls, built-in Flashback, and more. All these things add up to a user-friendly experience, stability, and easier overclocking.

Pros

Dual M.2 mounts with 1 x heatsink
High-quality VRM cooling design
Oversized rear I/O guard with built-in backplate
Built-in
Powerful AMP and DAC design
2×2 802.11ac Wi-Fi
Mu-MIMO Support
Extensive RGB LED configuration and expansion options
Multi-GPU support
Armoured PCIe slots
Excellent connectivity
Gorgeous aesthetics

Cons

None

Neutral

While the overall performance wasn’t quite where we had hoped. The board does make up for that with a solid feature set, and we expect a few more BIOS updates will bring the board, quite literally, up to speed.