Asus ROG Maximus X Hero Review

Written by Antony Leather

November 24, 2017 | 12:30

Tags: #coffee-lake #lga-1151-v2 #republic-of-gamers #rog #z370

Companies: #asus #intel

HandBrake Video Transcoding

Website: HandBrake

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We perform a simple encoding test using the freely available HandBrake software, which converts a 60-second, 400MB, 4K, MKV video sample to a high quality, 1080p, MP4 file using the available presets. Our results show strong scaling with increasing threads, which is indicative of high-performance video editing suites, albeit without any GPU acceleration.

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PCMark 10 Photo Editing

Website: Futuremark

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This workload involves making a series of adjustments to a set of RAW and JPG photographs using ImageMagik - an open-source image processing library - to apply a range of filters with a live preview. The images are then saved in JPG and PNG formats.

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Terragen 4

Website: Planetside

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Planetside Software’s Terragen 4 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth, and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script renders a single frame of a snowy mountain scene at 640 x 480 on all the available CPU execution units.

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Cinebench R15 64-bit

Website: Maxon

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Cinebench uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion, and procedural shaders, so it gives a CPU a tough workout.

As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

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Posted by Anfield - Fri Nov 24 2017 20:11

It's also worth mentioning that you'll need to flip a switch in the EFI to get the second M.2 slot running at x4 speed - for some reason, it's set to x2 speed by default in the EFI, or at least the one we tested with.
Unfortunately working as intended.

From the Asus website:

When the M.2_2 Socket 3 is operating in PCIEX4 mode, SATA port 5. 6 will be disabled.
It all comes down to the pci-e lane limitations of mainstream cpus.

Posted by Combatus - Fri Nov 24 2017 22:18

Anfield
Unfortunately working as intended.

From the Asus website:



It all comes down to the pci-e lane limitations of mainstream cpus.
If you're not using the SATA ports and only using that second M.2 slot with a PCIe SSD for the OS as I was, then it should be intelligent enough to work it out tbh. None of the other boards I've tested did this and Asus had issues with this with Z170 and Z270 iirc.

Posted by The_Crapman - Sat Nov 25 2017 02:10

I think the best feature on this board and one I would love to see on more is the dedicated pump header. With 36w it could power both my ddc's and there's a raft of pwm fans headers. Their fan xpert software us pretty decent so would negate the need for a separate fan controller.
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