Review on ROG Crosshair VIII Motherboard 802 11Ax Computer Components by Daniel Shivashankar

This is a one piece kit. Passive cooling but with the ability to use VRM with liquid cooling make this motherboard excellent and top notch for overclocking. It even has settings to use Ln2 (liquid nitrogen). Apart from amazing overclocking abilities, it also has 2 built-in heatsinks for 4th gen m.2 drives that perform better than I expected. Plenty of PWM fan headers, RGB headers, onboard RGB that thankfully can be turned off, and an easy-to-read display so you don't have to guess why it won't start after changing a few settings. It also has a handy button for clear CMOS (BIOS) and more. I don't need to list the features lol they are listed above and on the website. I think all you need to know is if it's worth the high price tag. and the answer is yes, BUT only if you plan to overclock your CPU and memory seriously. You don't have to go to the extremes of Ln2 to justify your money. Most importantly, this board delivers amazing performance, all the settings you could want (yes, it supports Win11 with Ryzen 2nd and 3rd gen), easy to set up, and durable. I would highly recommend this board to enthusiasts. Of course, if you just want a decent board with good overclocking potential, then don't buy it. Choose a model below instead, but I'd recommend sticking with Asus as they seem to have Ryzen support. Finally, the onboard audio is actually pretty good, as is the support for the board. They are still releasing new firmware, drivers and software for the board which is fantastic. The last motherboard I bought was a high end Gigabyte (Intel based) and the drivers were never updated, the BIOS was rarely updated and the windows based software was absolutely awful. . It actually looked like someone took the GeoCities website and turned it into software lol.