Asus ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Formula ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, on-Board WiFi 6 (802.11Ax), 5 Gbps LAN, USB 3.2, SATA, M.2, Node and Aura Sync RGB Lighting

Board works great and provides some nice OC features. Lots of bashing on price for this board, but compared to other $700 boards, its not excessively overpriced for what you get. Thats comparatively, if you consider what you get for the other venders $700 boards (compared to their other cheaper models). Honestly this board should only probably interest you run a water cooled system and for more of an aesthetics purpose (because it does look cool). If you arn't going to use the in a water cool system, then you are probably better off with another $700 board. I guess my one major con with this board is the fact that more of the mobo is not water cooled (its limited to just the VRMs). For those concerned with the noise of the fan on the chipset, you can't even hear it.

This is a solid piece of kit. Passively cooled but with the ability to use liquid cooling on the VRM's make this an excellent and top class motherboard for overclocking. It even has settings for using Ln2 (liquid nitrogen).Amazing overclocking abilities aside it also has 2 built in heatsinks for gen4 m.2 drives that work way better than I expected. Plenty of PWM fan headers, RGB headers, built in RGB that can thankfully be disabled, and an easy to read display so you won't be guessing why it isn't booting after you changed some settings. It also has an easy to access CMOS (bios) clear button, and tons more... I don't need to list the features lol, they are listed above and on the website.So I guess all you need to know is whether it's worth the steep asking price.. and the answer is yes BUT only if you plan on doing some serious overclocking to your CPU and memory. You don't need to go Ln2 extreme to get your money's worth. What matters is this board has amazing power delivery, every setting you could want (yes it will support Win11 with 2nd and 3rd gen Ryzen), it's easy to setup and built to last..I would absolutely recommend this board to enthusiasts. If all you're after is a decent board that has good overclocking potential then obviously don't buy this. Instead go a model lower but I'd recommend sticking with Asus as they seem to have ryzen support nailed.Lastly the built in audio is actually pretty good as is support for the board. They are still releasing new firmware revisions, drivers and software for the board which is fantastic.The last motherboard I bought was a higher end (Intel based) gigabyte and drivers never got updated, bios was rarely updated and the Windows based software was absolutely atrocious. It actually looked like someone took a geocities website and made software out of it lol.

This board will be one of my last builds for a while as I am near 60 and retired from my own SMB network shop last year. I have built far too many PCs to count for myself family and most for customers. I use almost exclusively ASUS, Samsung m2 ans SSD and HGST Helium drives when needed.Received with mildly damaged outer box on one side. Inner pacing happened to be only on that side so it worked out ok and the inner box maintained it's integrity. If I were to use this seller again, I would request more packaging. fOR NOW i HAVE A amd 3900X and my old 1070ti evga FGW2 and I'm very pleased with the responsiveness in both Win 10 and my primary OS Linux. Overkill yes but I could not get a Hero version after waiting months and decided I would deal with the costs of the formula. Gskill memory 3200 16gig X2.

The board looks fantastic, it feels like a quality product and has great specs. and it performs terribly. It looks good in all the tests you could run via the usual sources like your internet speed tests and hardware evaluation software. But just try to connect to a game server on Origin and you'll be disappointed. You will not, no matter what updates you install, generate a reliable connection. Steam is a bit better, but your games will stutter even when you play in a single player mode. This is true of the Intel port as well as the 5Gb port. Maybe it's just AMD with the 3900X Ryzen and the X570, but I never had a problem with Intel. Their products work without tweaking. I had high hopes that this expensive system would be a monster, but got a little mouse of a machine that runs hot. Don't get burned by slick advertising via Specsmanship. Look online, you'll see I'm not alone with these issues. So far I have a $1000+ loss here. I could "upgrade" by installing a 5000 series chip, but that would probably be wasting another $300 for a small increase in performance. AMD is not the "Best in gaming". Not even close based upon the sad fact that that an Intel X99 blows this away in terms of performance in everyday computing and gaming. By a long shot. A 3 or 4 generations older Intel. There is a latency in performing every task you ask of your computer with the Ryzen. It's a known issue. AMD claims the answer is a 5000 series processor.I'm sorry for having to write this. It reflects poorly on me for falling for the hype. I'm sending my board in for "repair" finally. I'm not optimistic. We'll see. I rewrite if they repair this into acceptability.ASUS Crosshair VIII Formula X57032GB Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000Custom Water Cooling LoopGigabyte Aorus GeForce 1080Ti Water CooledSound Blaster ZxRCorsair 1000I XH Power Supply