- ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero AMD AM4 X570S Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Gaming Motherboard (PCIe 4.0, 14+2 Ti Power Stages, PCH Heatsink, Wi-Fi 6, 2.5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C

My motherboard came faulty and non-functional. I waited to write this review until I bought another one. The Second motherboard I order came fully functional (Thank God). I large caution to those who buy this motherboard AND a 5000 series CPU. DO NOT PANIC when installing a fresh clean Windows 10 OS install, by fresh and clean and you get Blue Screens of Death with "clock_watchdog_timeout" errors. You have to literally play russian roulette with the update assistant (download one to a flash drive before doing this so it can catch you up to speed on all updates all at once) because once the update manager finally makes it all your blue screens will be solved. The problem for this is fresh installs of windows 10 (if you are someone like me that has a disc from 2015) does NOT support any thing your 2022 tech has. It cant properly use your CPU so it gets hung up trying to proccess things. Do not uninstall drivers until you ran the windows update assistant manager tool (which you should have ready to use from a flash drive). Aside from all this frustration, the board works amazing, came straight out of the box working for my R9 5950x CPU and I had no issues whatsoever with the motherboard itself. I wont knock a star for receiving a bad board the first time around, these things happen and ASUS has amazing customer support.

There are motherboards with better specs or more value for the money. (looking at you Gigabyte) I'll be honest and say I am overly partial to Asus now which has come over 20+ years of building computers as an enthusiast. I have had less problems or unexpected issues with Asus which at this point in my life is worth the price premium. There are other brands with better paper specs or more value for the money, but really I use Asus for my builds because I know they will work exactly how I want them to. Gigabyte has comparable boards with more m.2 slots or better rated max memory speeds. But I have had way to many issues with Gigabyte parts over the years that they are a brand that I know If I am buying, I am taking a risk of quality/reliability for better cost/value. MSI I like a lot, but honestly they can get more expensive easily and the comparable boards I usually just choose Asus because the prices are the same. I have had an issue with 1 MSI laptop and 1 MSI motherboard which was handled, but less than great. So brands aside, this board is what I was looking for for X570. Ditched the annoying south bridge fan, Stable high speed ram clocks, looks good (we all value this somewhat), built in IO shield(we have all installed a MB at some point only to realize we forgot to put the darn shield on and have to reinstall), post code display, removable case pinout connector, amazing power stability, and pretty much anything else you would expect from a premium board (bios flashback, cooling, etc etc.) Asus bios is pretty close to perfect for my liking. the profile saving/ favorites pinning is a step up for sure. The negatives about this board are very much dependent on preference. You pay a premium for what I would call better quality assurance. Gigabyte has better value in this space, but you are taking a chance IMO on quality/reliability. There are boards with more m.2 slots, but again 2 is more than enough for most people at gen 4 with 2tb being relatively common now days. Board is Daisy chain for the Ram which is I guess ideal TBH. The OCD in me likes to fill out the board, but Daisy chain is better with 2 dual rank sticks which fits well with 32GB total. 16GB is probably enough for 99.9% of everyone, but you do get slightly better performance with 32GB and at this price point why not? Like if you need to max out ram, are there 32gb single rank sticks? I guess you could run 4 dual rank 32gb sticks on a T Toplogy board and say screw it, or even find 4 single rank 16gb sticks which are still hit or miss to get for the brands that have both single and dual rank for 16 gb sticks. Board works exactly like it should which to me is worth the price premium at this point in my life. If you are a gambling man/woman, Gigabyte has better cost to performance/features. But my experience is that you are taking a chance on reliability and that isn't worth my time any more.

This is a superb and stable MB. My Ryzen 5900 can run at 4700 MHz with no problem. It installed easily and ran on the first bootup. The BIOS setup offers many options. I usually run it in silent mode, but it will change speeds when the temp gets near 65 Celsuis. At max cpu speed it will stay below 70C. The cpu is air cooled by a Noctura fan. I have been running this since March. I really appreciate the abundance of USB ports. I have not needed any support. This is a well made MB. You can see that when you look at the components. Asus did not cut corners. Expensive, but worth it.

This board is the endgame as far as I am concerned. I'll try to be concise. Why I like it: - Passive x570 chipset cooling - Onboard post-code screen - Onboard reset & safe boot buttons - 2 on board m.2 ports (supports NVMe on both) - Great VRM cooling - Metal cover over audio caps This board also has probably the best rear IO I have ever seen. I wish the lower-end boards had something similar like this. What do I mean? Well, there are the following on the IO: - Clear CMOS button - BIOS flashback button - Wifi 6 - 4x USB 3.2 gen 1 type-A ports - 7x USB 3.2 gen 2 type-A ports - 1x USB 3.2 gen 2 type-C port - Both 2.5G LAN and Intel Gigabit Lan - Full audio (with optical if you're into that sort of thing) Some things that are in the very back of my head but I should mention for improvements: - A single onboard HDMI or DP port would be cool just in case you have an APU, though it would be wasted on this board - Maybe another m.2 port on the back? I feel like these types of drives are becoming more and more popular and it would be nice to have more.

Upgrading to my new computer was like a breath of fresh air. Paired with a Ryzen CPU, this board smokes the competition. It can handle 128 GB of RAM. I did find out that over-clocking the CPU caused the WiFi to stop working. But with a board this fast, there's no point in OC. One very nice feature is the BIOS reset buttons. Located on the rear of the mboard, pushing these lets you reset the BIOS/UEFI in case you messed up a setting in the setup screen. I clicked on an icon and the machine would not boot up, no matter what. All of the posts I read (using my wife's Mac) said the motherboard was fried. The BIOS reset buttons appear nowhere in the booklet. So I pushed them and the machine re-booted normally. This feature in itself makes the purchase worth the money, especially if you fat-thumb a setting that should stay at its default setting.

Open box used mother and damaged mothboard got delivered which was not even in its anti static bag in which I gets shipped

sealed and new, no problems with it, just update BIOS with flash 3 and your good to go!

Ok

Overall motherboard is so good.But I have an issue with Audio. No Audio is working updated bios, up dated drivers, checked bios setting, but there is no sound. I brought new sound card just paid Extra money.

I was having issues with video editing software with my older MB/CPU combo. Additionally, none of Windows based PC's were new enough for Windows 11 or later. I still use a DVD writer and SD card reader on top of several HD/SSD's for data storage (I don't use cloud storage) which meant having lots of Sata ports. Since I had decided not to stay with an Intel based MB due to high power draw and was not going with an overpriced/high power GPU this board started to receive serious consideration. I did want to have lots of ram/NVMe drives and quality MB components as well as a reasonable price point so ultimately I chose this board over both other name brands and competing boards from Asus itself. I hadn't gotten around to writing this review until Asus sent me an email stating that they would also extend my warranty by 90 days simply for doing so. What's not to like?