Review on 💻 ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero AM4 X570S Motherboard for Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen (PCIe 4.0, 14+2 Ti Power Stages, PCH Heatsink, Wi-Fi 6, 2.5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C) by Jeff Bridgewater

There are motherboards with better features or better value for money. (looking at you Gigabyte) I'll be honest and say I'm too clingy now to Asus who have been building computers as an enthusiast for over 20 years. I've had fewer issues or unexpected issues with Asus, which is worth the premium price at this point in my life. There are other brands with better paper specs or better value for money but I actually use Asus for my builds because I know they will work exactly the way I want them to. memory speed. But I've had a lot of issues with Gigabyte components over the years because that's the brand I'm familiar with. When I buy I'm taking the risk of quality/reliability in favor of the best price/value. I really like MSI but to be honest they can get expensive quickly and for comparable boards I usually just go to Asus because the prices are the same. I had an issue with 1 MSI laptop and 1 MSI motherboard which were dealt with but not well. Brands aside, this board is exactly what I was looking for in the X570. Removed the pesky southbridge fan, stable high-speed RAM clock, looks nice (we all appreciate that a bit), built-in I/O screen (eventually we installed all the MB only to realize we forgot). to turn on the damn screen and needs to be reinstalled), zip code display, removable chassis pinout header, amazing power stability, and pretty much everything else you would expect from a premium board (BIOS flashback, cooling, etc.). The Asus BIOS is pretty close to ideal in my opinion. Saving a profile/pinning favorites is definitely a step forward. The cons of this board depend very much on preferences. You pay more for what I would call the best quality guarantee. Gigabyte has the best value in this area, but you're taking a risk on quality/reliability in my opinion. There are boards with more m.2 slots, but again, 2 is more than enough for most 4th gen folks, and 2TB is fairly common these days. The OCD in me likes to fill up the board, but the daisy chain is better with 2 dual rank sticks matching the 32GB total nicely. 16GB is probably enough for 99.9% of everyone, but with 32GB you get slightly better performance and at this price why not? For example, if you need to maximize your RAM, are there 32GB peer-to-peer sticks? I think you could run 4 dual rank 32GB sticks on a T-Toplogy board and say hell or even find 4 peer 16GB sticks still hitting or missing to get marks , which have both peer and dual sticks for 16GB sticks. The .board works exactly as it should, which is worth the extra cost to me at this point in my life. If you are a gambler, Gigabyte has the best price/performance/feature ratio. But my experience is that you risk reliability and it's no longer worth my time.