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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:
Congrats! I am waiting for the Dark Hero

What are the differences between the Hero and Dark Hero (apart from 4 additional USB 2.0 and lack of support for Picasso)?

The two main things are that a) It's fanless b) It's the only motherboard that we know of so far that allows Single Core boost to work when you do an all core overclock. With Ryzen including 5000 series, when you overclock every core to say 4.7 Ghz, you no longer get that Single Core boost to 5Ghz when running Single Core heavy tasks. So depending on the game and application, you could "lose" performance. But with the Dark Hero, it does auto switching. So when you have an application that is heavy on mutlicores, you get the OC clocks and when you have an application that is heavy on Single Cores, you get that 5Ghz boost on the single core vs every other motherboard that's one or the other.

Since it's supposed to be $20 more than the regular hero wifi, it's well worth it if you are looking in that price range. Especially afaik, Aorus X570 Xtreme is the only other X570 that's fanless but that costs $750 and doesn't have the other feature vs $400sh for the Dark Hero.

Thanks for the explanation!

I won't overclock (seeing how little effect it had at both Hardware Unboxed and Gamer's Nexus, I don't really see the point), but the fact that it's fanless certainly interests me a lot. I was initially going for a B550 for this very reason (MSI Gaming Edge or Gaming Carbon are my favorites right now) considering how expensive the Aorus is, but this brings it a lot closer to my budget now...

Marth said:
TECs are crazy powerhungry.Intel doing its job in protecting the environment ;)

At least they don't use a 1500W chiller this time around...

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 11 November 2020