Review on 🎮 ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, on-Board WiFi 6 (802.11Ax), 2.5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2, SATA, M.2, Node and Aura Sync RGB Lighting by Virot Nimpoonsri ᠌

Name: 🎮 ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, on-Board WiFi 6 (802.11Ax), 2.5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2, SATA, M.2, Node and Aura Sync RGB Lighting
Item: 🎮 ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, on-Board WiFi 6 (802.11Ax), 2.5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2, SATA, M.2, Node and Aura Sync RGB Lighting
Rating: 5

October 22, 2022

Excellent quality, absolutely not expected for such a price.

In general, an excellent mother for an advanced user. These shortcomings are significant only in private use cases, and for everyday advanced work - an excellent board.

Taking this opportunity, I congratulate those who, like me, managed to buy a top-end mother and processor before the horrors began - this hardware should be enough for us for the next 10 years, and we are unlikely to buy new hardware before 10 years.

I am attaching a photo that shows how the backlight of the mother looks in a case with tinted glass, if anyone is interested.

Pros

- Excellent cooling. The chipset with peripherals (not much - two hard drives, USB - but under stable boot) does not heat up above 55, despite passive cooling (although in my case this may be due to the Corsair 7000D Airflow case). - Excellent power supply - Ryzen 5950x works quietly and stably at maximum (stock, I'm not an overclocker) frequencies under 100% load, while the VRM also does not heat up (I have never observed above 45). - Cool features for overclockers, although I can't fully appreciate them - all sorts of buttons right on the board, it shines beautifully :3 - For lovers of whistling backlighting, there are two RGB and ARGB headers - Pleasant sound. I'm not a big connoisseur, I immediately noticed the difference with my 3.5mm headphones.

Cons

- Serial topolgy of RAM connection. I stuck 4 dice for 32 gigabytes, and I couldn’t get good timings (but I’m a krivorkuy, it’s more like that). - Overkill built-in peripherals and ports. All data lines are occupied by three network cards and dozens of USBs on the rear panel. At the same time, there is only one internal 20pin USB connector on the board itself, which does not allow connecting the front panel of top cases with a lot of USB (I needed two internal connectors). This is solved by an expansion card, but the board provides only one PCIe x1 socket, which is sad. Two dozen USBs on the rear panel will not help to connect a second PCIe device. Thanks, although SATA drives left the line norms (8 devices can be connected) - Radiators interfere a little during assembly, especially VRM - it was inconvenient to plug in the processor power.