Packaging and Accessories
The box for the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero has the standard ROG theme with its black background and the bright ROG red along the bottom and on the ROG logo in the top left corner. The black background has the ROG logo as well as multiple ROG-themed quotes repeated in a very dark grey. The model name is across the front in a reflective finish and then the board has a wraparound in the bottom right with the AMD chipset information which lets you know this is an AM5 board, X670E chipset, and that it supports DDR5 and PCIe 5 for the GPU and NVME. Around on the back, the black and red theme continues but the back finally has pictures of the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero with a full board photo on the left along with the antenna. Then on the right half, they feature a few of the main features with additional photos specific to those features. There is a basic specification listing that lets you know all of the rear I/O ports, some of the internal headers, and the form factor.
When you open the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero up the box has the ROG logo right in your face with a warning “For Those Who Dare” at the bottom. Then the main compartment is covered with a formed plastic panel. Normally this is clear and you can see the board but Asus has changed this up with black plastic which seems a little thinner so you can’t see the board anymore. It does have the ROG logo formed into it as well. Under that, the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero sits in its cardboard tray that can lift out and has all of the accessories and documentation up under it. One half of the accessory section is foam to keep the M.2 card and USB drive safe. I should also note that this board was sent along with the memory and the new CPUs from AMD and from the looks of it with the dust and a fingerprint on the ram DIMMs that it was pretested. Most likely updating the BIOS before the launch.
For cables, the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero comes with a big bag of black SATA cables with four cables (two of which have a right-angled connection on one end). You get a Wifi 6E antenna which is the same design that Asus has used the last few years which has a flip out antenna and a rubber base. They also include a small metal graphics card holder to help with the weight of today's huge GPUs. There is an RGB extension cable and one also for addressable RGB as well. As far as the bundle of small baggies go. Four of those have M.2 hold down screws which all have the new toolless design. There are multiple rubber bumpers for M.2 drives if they aren’t double-sided. There is a Q connect adapter which makes hooking up your front panel connections easier and a thermal pad for an M.2 slot as well. They included an ROG keychain which is a nice touch and an ROG thumb drive which comes with the drives and software.
The included PCIe device is a PCIe 5.0 M.2 card. It is blacked out with a black PCB and a thick black aluminum heatsink on the front which has the ROG logo and stripes with a brushed finish that gives contrast to the normal texture on the rest of the heatsink. There isn’t anything going on the back other than a sticker with a serial number on it. Four screws hold the heatsink on and when you pull it off you can see the one PCIe 5.0 slot sitting at an angle. They have thermal tape on the heatsink and on the slot for thermal transfer from both sides of a drive. The drive length supports up to 22110 which is longer than the standard 2280. I was surprised at the weight of the card which comes from the extremely thick heatsink which weighs 319 grams!
For documentation the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero comes with a full user guide book and with it, there was also a card telling you about their armoury crate app and a paper with a special offer on Asus WebStorage. You also get a full sheet of ROG-themed stickers which has a metallic finish and a whole variety of black, silver, and red stickers.
