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Asus ROG Crosshair 2006 - Prepare to feel old!

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Asus is releasing a new AMD X870E board in their storied Crosshair family, this time commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the ROG branding. https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-crosshair-2006/

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I imagine a good number of [H] board dwellers will begin to feel nostalgic remembrance of the copper colored heatsinks as well as the white and blue coloration that was common to Asus at the time (imagine if DFI was still making gaming mobos, with the retina searing LanParty neon orange and green that made Asus' blue and white seem positively staid and classy by comparison!)

Spec-wise, it seems similar to the recent refreshes, particularly the Crosshair Dark Hero, but has some additional features like the OLED display, which along with its limited edition elements help to justify the slightly higher price vs the Dark Hero; about $100 from the looks of the MSRP-using Asus comparison store page. Both of them are significantly cheaper than the new 'extreme refresh" the "Glacial" , which also has a larger display built in and some other functions. Still the 2006 is like its Dark Hero predecessor a very capable board none the less. The old fashioned styling of the heatsinks along with the copper coloration is sure to bring back a few memories, though unlike those who remember mounting either a full copper Zalman, Scythe, or exceptionally weighty Thermalright heatsink back in the day, I'm sure this board's heatsinks are not copper through and through! Still a neat throwback and remembrance of the varied aesthetics of the era, when the PC gaming, overclocking, and other enthusiast industry expanded rapidly!
 
I wonder about the longevity of that OLED screen though. It's on top of the SSD heatsink, right above the videocard, and right below the CPU heatsink which means it's basically in the hottest part of the PC.
 
I love it! If I were building this would be at the top of my list with a windowed case to show it off. :) Only amd though? I would be going Intel :(.
 
I considered it for about 2 seconds. Long enough to find the Asus pre-order price. $799 mmnah.
 
Celcius said:
I wonder about the longevity of that OLED screen though. It's on top of the SSD heatsink, right above the videocard, and right below the CPU heatsink which means it's basically in the hottest part of the PC.
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I can hope that they have enough heatsink there to preserve it. This is not the first time Asus has done a similar placement. My current board purchased alongside my 7950X3D is the Crosshair X670E Extreme, which has a similar OLED in a similar place. I have to admit it has been useful especially during early days of stability testing and weaking. Unlike this board and some other newer Asus models, there is no actual M.2 slot under it and thus is not removable (this caused a problem with mounting my Arctic Liquid Freezer III and in fact I had to mount it upside down! ), but at least so far I've not run into any problems with the OLED, nor last I checked did I see a significant amount of others reporting issues. This is not to say that sometime down the road they couldn't appear, but at least for the first several years it doesn' seem to have negatively affected the board or OLED.

Now maybe on the 2006 it differs as it covers a M.2 and thus is exposed to the heat of Gen5 M.2 SSD as well, but I guess we'll see. From the assembly video posted above, it looks like the OLED design there is both offset a little compared to where the M.2 is underneath and the heatsink appears to be pretty beefy. If the heatpipe there is active then most of the heat from the drive should be directed to other parts of the heatsink instead of right to the OLED. Just looking as a comparison to the X670E Extreme's it seems like a refined design and location; removal capability alone is a step forward. In the current mid-gen refresh Crosshair boards (vs the original Hero, Extreme etc) , the Dark Hero seems to have a similar heatsink but lacking the OLED on its left half and the X870E Glacial seems to have a similar sized M.2 heatsink at that location, so they appear to be betting on this design/layout. Lets hope they put some good thought into it all .

hititnquitit said:
I considered it for about 2 seconds. Long enough to find the Asus pre-order price. $799 mmnah.
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GoldenTiger said:
Yikes. I love it, but not $799 worth.
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Makes sense. From my best (actually available) retail price for its closest relative, the Dark Hero at $699, it makes the 2006 only a $100 premium. Wheather or not that is worth it for the differences vs the Dark Hero upon which it is based, the price increase seems relatively minor compared to what Asus (and many other manufacturers ) have charged for limited edition variants in the past; hell, with GPUs it seems like a $100-200 premium can be levied simply on a non-limited 'white" edition of a GPU! I'm pleased that Asus chose to include the OLED but am unsure of other technical/component enhancements compared to the Dark Hero, but a limited edition aesthetic with at least one new hardware component for only $100 could have been a lot, lot worse. There may be some who dont' feel it worthwhile, but for many prepared to spend $700 on a mobo may be willing to spend an extra hundred if they like the limited edition, the throwback aesthetic, and the ability to get an OLED onboard for cheaper than the much moire expensive top of the line parallel to the Extreme yet in white Crosshair X870E Glacial (a larger and color OLED is present, but this is also a $1200+ board! I guess Asus didn't like leaving MSI with the most expensive mobo prior to the mid-gen referesh!) .
 
RanceJustice said:
From my best (actually available) retail price for its closest relative, the Dark Hero at $699, it makes the 2006 only a $100 premium.
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Ah, that's not a big premium from its base board model, then. I don't buy mother boards that expensive, so I was just thinking of the absolute dollar amount :).
 
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