Review on Asus ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Impact SFF Gaming Motherboard – AMD AM4 Ryzen 3000, PCIe 4.0, WiFi 6, Intel LAN, SATA 6GB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, SO-DIMM.2, Aura Sync by Dave Albright

First of all, this board is great, but it's better for the price. I recently completed my build (3900x/2080super/32gb3600trident z neo/sabrent Rocket 4.0 nvme) and while the performance was amazing, I noticed that my bios would reset every time I turned off the PSU and unplugged it to turn my rig off to bring to life room . to the office. Strange, I thought I might need to update the bios, so I did it with the latest 1201 over USB (renamed to C8I.CAP) and low, and lo and behold the problem persists. Not only does it not save my RAM (dcop) settings, it even resets the clock every time power is removed from the system. Pretty classic symptoms of a dead CMO battery (or faulty soldering on the holder) so I asked for a replacement. I won't turn down this board because it's perfect for my small form factor (was on lian li tu150) but COME on asus! A fee like $400 and you can't even test the CMOS before it leaves the factory? I know not many people buy this board, take your time with such high end equipment.