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z3 90 is finally amongst this and so is ASUS Maximus six here our formula a step up from the Z 370 Maximus hero 5 that you may already have since this is a flagship board we will be putting it through a lot of different tests and telling you guys if it's worthy of that flagship title without aside let's get straight into the meat and potatoes of this review walking back to Tokyo sitting right here is a 10 faves BRM design implemented on this board using vishay silicon ax si six seven three nine dual stage MOSFETs now I couldn't find a whole lot of info on these MOSFETs but I will say when it comes to overclocking and the real-world results this is where it really matters and honestly this board has done better than any Z 370 board as well as doing better than other Z 390 counterparts when I tested it with a particular CPU that puts out a lot of heat and it did so well to the point where it was using less power it was also getting good overclock and keeping them stable at certain levels for the chokes they've implemented 60 amp solutions and then after that you've got your niche akan FP 10k capacitors on board which will do a mighty fine job for whatever you need it to do especially if you're on air or water overclocks this thing is not gonna have a problem at all right beside that 8 pin you've also got an additional 4 pin to give the CPU extra power if it's so needs it move you through the board itself you've got 8 PWM fan headers as well as one 3 pin for a water cooler so 9 fan headers in total we've also got to RGB outs for 4 pins and also to RGB outs for the three pin solutions as this we've also implemented a power button as well as a doctor debug LED light which is great for LN to overclock is on the rear of the board you also get the clear CMOS button and the switch BIOS for the dual bias implemented on this board and then when it comes to the ddr4 memory overclocks they say they support up to 40 400 megahertz unfortunately the memory I had on here only went up to 3,700 megahertz I couldn't test past that because I don't have extreme overclocking tools and also really good memory to test that but in terms of overclocking the memory it did the best again out of any board that I've had here in terms of overclocking that particular set of memory and then glancing a little bit further down the board you've got your implementation of the ROG heatsink which can be controlled with the Ora software and you can even control that in the boss itself setting in different modes if you don't wish to install the software on Windows the shroud at the top will also glow with RGB lighting so you do have two different zones here on the board itself besides that we've got three PCI 16x slots although only the top one itself is true 16 slot the one below that is eight times and then there's one at the bottom four times and if it's one thing I do have to pick a bone with the Z 390 in general which is not a Zeus's fault is that they've only included 1/16 speed slot I'd like to see the CPUs themselves support more lanes and also the motherboards have 216 speed slot solutions so you can then link up to RTX 28 ET is for example in 32 times for both those graphics cards there's also an additional three 1x lots of PCIe coverage as well as having two nvme PC a 3.0 4 speed slots that do have heat sinks on both the slots themselves when testing the bottom and the primary slot for this we notice the temperatures do go down quite a bit on the heatsink itself we had 48 degrees when running a 100 gigabyte stress test and with the heatsink off it was 91 degrees on the thermal imaging camera also on the software we reported 61 degrees versus 92 degrees itself so this heatsink is doing a great job of cooling down nvme to flash-based storage devices however moving over to the right of the board with the supreme FX audio solution a lot of you guys tell me you love the audio testing that gets done around takia city and so analyzing this solution here they've got a 192 kilohertz 24 bit ADC solution implemented and then also for the audio out you've got 32 bit 192 kilohertz solution that's what these supported rates but also when we're testing the audio itself for things like the frequency response curve especially in something that normal people will listen to we've noticed that the roll-off here below 7 Hertz was only like 1.4 decibels and then the frequency response curve after that was incredibly flat so this is a phenomenal implementation of onboard audio the mic import itself also had a noise suppression that was clearly visible when we turned it up to a hundred volume 30 plus 30 dB you can see that there was a little spike when we tried to change it which does indicate that there is noise suppression but it will give you a clearer signal just don't use it for professional recordings but if you're using it for gaming your mates are going to be able to hear you absolutely fine with no noise whatsoever move over to the left and right channel balance we had only a point one to point two decibel difference between the left and right channel which is again is phenomenal values and then - crosstalk numbers they were - 80db and lower and this is the thing with the volume here the volume is quite strong stronger than previous generations of motherboards so you will be out of power pretty hungry headphones that need that extra power but also after the volume level of 90 just like a lot of other solutions there is a slight bit of crosstalk leaked into the right channel this is a very common problem I guess on the ELC Realtek 12:20 solution that a lot of multiple manufacturers implement on their motherboards don't a nutshell if you're getting this motherboard for the audio just set the volume to 90 or below and you'll have happy days before we get back to the overclocking and also the BIOS will quickly take a look at the rear input/output eight USB slots one of those being a Type C DisplayPort and HDMI port outs ps2 out as well as the clear CMOS and BIOS switch buttons as we mentioned before you've got a wireless solution ac included which comes with its own antenna tested the speeds of the on-board it included Nick and that was fine all the way up to 1 gigabit per second as well as having manual 5.1 surround and an optical output which I hope motherboard manufacturers never get rid of this port I absolutely love it anyway overclocking now let's roll things back now to the overclocking and as I said before I can only talk about a CPU which put out a lot of heat at this very point in time and this motherboard the vrm and the heatsink the heatsink weighs about 300 grams and when we looked at it with the vrm thermal imaging camera with an overclock on a particular CPU at a particular speed we managed to see that the vrm was going around 50 degrees this was out of the box the veeram itself was only going up manually on the thermal imaging camera to around 56 degrees so this was phenomenal performance on this implementation from a Zeus as well as the power efficiency being very good when I compared it to other boards here so they've definitely got things right in terms of the magic behind the implementation of the hardware on this board itself but women move on to the BIOS this is where things really don't need to get any better Zeus his implementation of their bias has all the features you would want for overclocking LLC levels as well as recommendations as well as preset overclocks for memory and also overclocking - things like a five units they've got that included too so in a nutshell itself the Z 390 Maximus hero 6 is definitely going to be the board you'll want to get if you want flagship performance now keep in mind this thing will come at a premium I actually don't know the official pricing yet but expect it to be maybe slightly more than the current Z 370 Maximus 5 which currently goes for around about 300 us in Australia about 400 Ozzy and I really can't fault this board for anything in particular maybe other than the price performance which on a premium flagship motherboard you're always going to pay a premium so everything from the onboard audio to the vrm to the bios feature set it's all practically perfect and a Zeus do get this right they know what they're doing when it comes to making motherboards and without a sight I hope you guys enjoyed this review of the Maximus 6 hero if you did them sure to hit that like button also stay tuned on this channel for more coverage with XIII 90s and particular CPUs they are coming up I look forward to reading your comments and opinions as always in the comment section below but also on that note let us know what you think of this motherboard and also let us know what you think of the whole Z 390 release and chipset and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye you