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Guru3D.com » News » Review: ASUS TUF X470 Plus-Gaming

Review: ASUS TUF X470 Plus-Gaming

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/25/2018 05:05 AM | source: | 9 comment(s)
Review: ASUS TUF X470 Plus-Gaming

We review the ASUS TUF X470 Plus-Gaming, optimized for Ryzen 2000 / Zen+ on a motherboard with an ATX form factor. Alongside the release of Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X processors, AMD prepped the X470 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen processor. 

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Humanoid_1
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#5567655 Posted on: 07/24/2018 12:34 PM
As HH touched on this board really is poorly equipped with what is actually the same 4+2 phase supply used on the earlier 350 boards. Those board's VRMs could overheat significantly on a 1700 overclocked running a heavy workload. buildzoid registered temps of 127c in such situations. Combine that with the 2700x being capable of pulling significantly more power in standard configs to the older gen chips and this really does not equate to a power supply setup for a X470 branded board, especially one holding the TUF branding. A very poor move by Asus.

I liked his conclusion - Avoid like the plague...

Obviously if you want to run a lower end Ryzen+ CPU with lower power consumption requirements then this board should be adequate, but you are still paying (lowish) x470 prices for what is Really a 450 board.

(edited for a typo)

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#5567656 Posted on: 07/24/2018 12:35 PM
Nice review @Hilbert Hagedoorn and spot-on recommendations.

BLEH!
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#5567662 Posted on: 07/24/2018 01:05 PM
That's a fair conclusion. I thought the back panel was a bit bare, personally, like to see more USB than that.

Jonathanese
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#5567715 Posted on: 07/24/2018 04:26 PM
I had the Z370 version of this board. ASUS makes a great BIOS for overclocking, but they just cut back wayyy too much on the VRMs. At stock clocks with high load-line calibration, I was already seeing the CPU throttle because of VRM temperatures. That simply shouldn't be happening that easily. My 8700K would see ~130W in Prime, but would just keep climbing to over 200W.

I ended up returning it and getting an ASRock Extreme 4 which certainly has a more difficult overclocking interface, but the VRM setup is far more robust. I have a probe between the heatsink and the thermal pad on my VRMs and rarely see it hit 55C. At a 5.2GHz overclock at 1.4v no less. My power usage hangs out at about 170W and doesn't climb.

So the TUF series isn't exactly "TUF". It's a great board for running things stock, or perhaps overclocking 6-core i5s or 4-core i7s. But it feels like they were hoping people wouldn't notice where they cut corners.

Aesthetically, I actually really liked it. Sort of a classic "factory" look that some might find cheesy, but I thought looked pretty good alongside the cleaner look of modern pc components.

undorich
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#5567770 Posted on: 07/24/2018 07:51 PM
You get six power phases, -- no way ! looks like a stock 4+2





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