Bought my first ROG motherboard in years,how do they fare these days?

[mopardude87]

I got the nostalgia bug and decided i wanted to try another ROG motherboard after years of getting subpar if not trash budget motherboards. I bought a ROG 360-G to replace a Asrock Z370M-PRO4 and for a 8700 non k the ROG is about as good as i would need and or want. The Asrock wouldn't have been my first choice but meh long story on how i came about that motherboard. Been on edge about the 8700 non k pushing those naked vrms and various reports sure made me nervous about keeping the Asrock as a permanent solution anyways.

Reasons i went for the ROG was for active VRM cooling, solid onboard audio without the need for a add in card and overall i remember the ROG boards being absolutely beautiful in build quality and my last one which was a Z97 was absolutely awesome. Also i feel confident the ROG will prob house the 9900 non k if i decide in the future to plop it in while the Asrock would prob present issues due to naked vrms and a reportably bad power delivery system.

Anyone have this motherboard and if so how are you liking it? I hope i will enjoy having a ROG in here again. I miss having a quality motherboard i can trust. Surprised such quality comes cheap but then again this ROG is prob the most pimped up microatx motherboard i have seen yet that isn't a z370/z390 and that cost less then $150 new.

 

[JEDIYoda]

It is a bit late to ask how they fare.....now that you bought one, you can tell us...hehehee

 

[Shmee]

ROG is fine, but I wouldn't have gotten a B360 board if I could avoid it. Z370 has a lot more features generally. Though, why buy any motherboard at this time with the Ryzen 3k release just 3 days away?

 

[mopardude87]

ROG is fine, but I wouldn't have gotten a B360 board if I could avoid it. Z370 has a lot more features generally. Though, why buy any motherboard at this time with the Ryzen 3k release just 3 days away?

B360 has all i need, i only paid $79 refurbished for it and for 4k gaming and my overall usage i am miles away from even possibly considering replacing my 8700 non k with a 3k series no matter how nice it is. I could sell off the Asrock or repurpose so its not like i lost really anything with it . I only had it cause a buddy had it sitting about from mistakenly thinking a 7700k would work with it. I did him a favor and got him a Z170 and i got the Asrock from him. Found out later it was a pretty meh choice on his part. I got a 8700 non k off the ground for a few months without the cost of a motherboard and my buddy wasn't exactly rushing me to pay for it either. Was like 3 months after i got the 8700 before i even got him a Z170.

Given i use a usb keyboard and mouse and a single sata 6 ssd, anything else on even the B360 is kind of overkill ha. Even the M.2 slots have no appeal to me cause for game loading times there is so little benefit in comparison to my 500gb 860 Evo.

 

[RexB]

Been using an Asus Rog Strix Z370-I m-ITX build (8700k and Evga GTX-1080) for 18 months, it's very good. Strix is the budget Rog line. Strong stable power delivery with a good psu of course. You don't want the extras a Z board has, but all have good quality bits. Legacy PS/2 for a kb/mouse input if USB or drivers get hinky. And a four year old Rog Z170 board with no problems either. Strong construction, often lined slots, vgood components that have held up.

Bios/Uefi updates are smooth via a usb stick, even a online update, for all the MDS malware (spectre/meltdown etc) microcode/firmware and other updates that have been happening. No probs w either.

Enjoy the board

 

[Kenmitch]

I've only tried one ROG MB so far which is the Crosshair VI Hero. Nice board, but only paid $199.99 for it bundled with a R5 1600.

Flased to latest uEFI and dropped a 3600 in it for testing. Runs my b-die at 3600 cl14 with tightened timings just like my MSI x570 MB. No complaints so far!

 

[lopri]

ROG boards are ASUS's top of the line stuff and thusly they are excellent for the most part. Performance/$$ can be a whack though and you have to be careful about that because there are several ROG boards in the same chipset family.

 

[Jornak]

Well I've upgraded from a h310 to a ROG Strix Z390-E and apart from corrosion problems (which have nothing to do with the motherboards itself!) it is performing quite well.
But if someone is asking me I'd probably not recommend it for K-series and heavy overclocking as it has bad VRM, even with an additional VRM-Fan (pretty loud for it's size, too) it is getting quite hot.

-I'm using it with an Noctua-Cooler
-And with an I7 8700k but for 200€/$+ I'd recommend buying a different board with better VRM, Gigabyte boards have better VRM but not so good/user friendly UEFI
Since you're not Overclocking it depends more on your opinion/taste.