Asus has announced its first-ever ROG Apex motherboard for AMD CPUs. The ROG Crosshair X870E Apex is Asus' all-new extreme overclocking-focused motherboard, aimed at CPU overclocking and extreme DDR5 memory overclocking. Overclocker Safedisk has already achieved eight world records with the Apex by overclocking two G.Skill DDR5 memory sticks to over DDR5-10000.
The new board has an E-ATX form factor and supports all AM5 Ryzen-based CPUs: the Ryzen 7000 series, Ryzen 8000 series (APUs), and Ryzen 9000 series. The defining trait of the Apex series is the DIMM slot count, which drops from four to just two. This maximizes DDR5 overclocking potential, as fewer DIMM slots enable board makers to improve the traces connecting each slot to the CPU.
