ASUS Maximus VII Hero Review
Test Setup and Overclocking
Published: 12th May 2014 | Source: ASUS | Price: £169.99 |

Test Setup
ASUS Maximus VII Hero
Intel Core i7-4770K
nVidia GTX780Ti
Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 & 2933
Corsair AX1500i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H105
Custom Corsair 540 Air
Windows 7 x64
Overclocking
The Hero has an absolute ton of power phases and plenty of options to tweak in the BIOS, as we'd expect from a ROG board. After all, nobody buys these expecting some plug and play overclocking, although that is an option should you choose to go down that route. Anyway the best stable overclock we could obtain was the same as the very best motherboards we've used to underpin our i7-4770K, at a monster 4.9GHz.
That isn't the full story though. Even if it's a fantastic clock to run for our benchmarks. Now although we couldn't get this particular setup bench stable, it loudly shouts about the quality of the Maximus VII Hero, and the potential performance you could unlock with a good CPU, or perhaps more time to fine tune our overclock. So here we are, 5GHz and 2933MHz RAM at the same time. If that doesn't put a tilt in your kilt then it's time to reevaluate your life.
We'll return to the 4.9GHz/2400MHz stable clock speeds for our benchmarks, but we thought you'd be as stunned as we are about the amount of performance ASUS have squeezed into the Hero. Maybe the new CPUs will allow us to run this 24/7.
Most Recent Comments
Cracking board.... your move Gigabyte..
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Love it, Thank you so much for the review Tom. I have mine and am starting on the build. I really hope you get to M.2 reviews soon. The thought of a self contained bootable system that performs great is a big one for me. After seeing this review, I need to buy some better memory than I have to do this board justice.
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Just to speculate how do you think the VII Gene will perform compared to this??
Planning an MATX build with the VI Gene at the moment but wondering whether to get the Z97 board with a Haswell CPU and just upgrade later?
Was planning on using my 16GB Dominator Platinum memory too but it's the 1600mhz sticks. Would you recommend higher??
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Great stuff, nice review Tom. Loving the new camera too, the detail is nice and focussed
![]() Just to speculate how do you think the VII Gene will perform compared to this?? Planning an MATX build with the VI Gene at the moment but wondering whether to get the Z97 board with a Haswell CPU and just upgrade later? Was planning on using my 16GB Dominator Platinum memory too but it's the 1600mhz sticks. Would you recommend higher?? |
Not really going to get into that, its only ever going to be a guess....
Reading it again, it was a bit of a loaded question to ask you lol. Just got the cogs turning after watching the Hero review, made Z97 allot more exciting.
I'll wait for the reviews.

Still a good motherboard with good performance, we just need to see what the Devils Canyon chips are like on these Z97 boards.
, Oh well only another 2-3 weeks 
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Tom that card in your rig in the video, Are you purposely staying focused on it ? You git !
, Oh well only another 2-3 weeks ![]() |
It's just been one long giggle on here today, certainly has made a long dull day very bright indeed.
It's just been one long giggle on here today, certainly has made a long dull day very bright indeed. |

Would love to see how it stacks up against its older brother, need to decide whether the extra £30 is worth it as my build is on a fairly tight budget! Thanks




The first of the Z97 ROG boards is the Maximus VII Hero. An affordable Z97 option with all the ROG bells and whistles. How does it perform?
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