BIOS

The ROG Crosshair X670E Hero booted right up into the advanced menu, but given this is a higher-end board that is fine. Normally I like to see it default to the EZ mode section just in case anyone who doesn’t know what they are looking at gets into the BIOS to minimize potential damage and to make it easier to handle small updates. You can see the Asus EZ mode at the end of the video. It shows you which fans are hooked up, your CPU information, and ram information. Then you have an EZ tuning option and a drop-down menu to be able to turn on AMD's new EXPO DDR5 overclock. Boot priority is drag and drop and you can get into fan controls. For most people, this is all you would ever need in the BIOS.

Back in the main advanced menu, the landing page is the main tab and this lists off your BIOS revision, AGESA version, and memory and CPU information. You have a my favorites tab in the top left that you can set up with any specific option to make your own page if you are changing things often.

Then the next tab is the extreme tweaker page which is what Asus calls their overclocking page. This starts with default stuff like the AI Tuner which also has the AMD expo settings and eclk settings. From there you can get into basic memory frequencies and your fclock and make adjustments to your core performance boosts. Scrolling down gets you into the heavy stuff with pages like the DRAM timing control which dives into every single detail. Precision boost overdrive has options to change the thermal throttling and anything else boost related. The Digi VRM page has all of the VRM power settings which by default are all set to auto.

If what you are looking for isn’t on the extreme tweaker page then it will be in the advanced tab. This has all of the chipset controls, controls for subsystems, USB, network, SATA, and anything else you can think of. Down at the bottom, they have the AMD CBS page start to get into the CPU options. The AMD PBS has thunderbolt and USB 4 settings and all of the settings for the graphics. Last up is the AMD overclocking page which is AMD's own tweakers paradise. This one should really be a page over on the tweakers paradise tab because most of these are overclocking settings.

The monitor tab has pages for temperature monitoring, fan speed monitoring, voltage monitoring, and q-fan configuration. This is basically where you can see every sensor or readout on the Hero. The Boot tab is where you change your boot devices or override the boot order one time. You can also get into secure boot settings as well here. Then the tool tab is the last of the tabs and is where Asus has tucked away all of their other utilities. A good example of that is this is where you get to Asus EZ Flash 3 to update the BIOS on the Hero. You have Asus secure erase to clear hard drives, and settings for your armoury crate software as well. Also floating around in the BIOS up on the top row the Hero has a Qfan Control which you can open on any page. This allows you to set the fan profiles for any of the hooked up fans including going as far as setting what temperature sensor you want the fan profile to go off of which is nice because if you have a great CPU cooler maybe you want some fans to pay attention to if your board gets hot. You can change resize BAR settings and even quickly turn off all of the RGB lighting on the board with the top row options.  

 

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