Being at the top of the X399 price stack, Asus has to deliver on all fronts with its Extreme Alpha, and the company succeeds. Serious overclockers and builders with deep pockets can find value in this board compared to other current-generation product offerings. The rest of us should stick look for something (much) more affordable.
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Today I want to check out the Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi that has been pulling double duty as our CPU test platform and our GPU test platform. The Hero isn’t Asus’s highest-end X570 board, but it is close so I’m excited to see what they have packed into it.
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The ROG Strix range has yielded some excellent motherboards for Asus over the years and has already spanned both Intel and AMD sockets successfully. However, you’d be right in thinking that, while this is one of the cheaper X570 boards we’ve tested, it’s still on the pricey side given its Intel Z370 equivalent cost just £207 when we reviewed it less than two years ago.
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The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi is the high-end motherboard meant for hardcore gamers and enthusiasts looking to push the third generation of Ryzen processors beyond their specs, and who could use all the extra features, ROG style.
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The massive central heatsink isn’t a one-piece solution, a la MSI. Rather, there are two specific M.2 heatsinks that come away, plus a cover for the X570 chipset SOC that clearly hides a small fan. Bear in mind that it’s on at all times though cannot be heard over the noise produced by the CPU and GPU coolers.
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ASUS rolling out many Ryzen 3000 series motherboards. In this review we check out the Crosshair VIII HERO in combination with a Ryzen 7 3700X processor, AMD prepped the X570 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen Generation 3 processor.
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We check out this Crosshair VIII HERO hardware in combination with a Ryzen 7 3700X processor, AMD prepped the 570 chipset, that offers a more fine-tuned experience for your Ryzen Generation 3 processor. The new Hero, however, is taking things to an entirely new level. Including PCIe Gen 4.0 and AX Wifi.
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The board isn’t completely devoid of a premium demeanour, though, as you get an impressive total of nine four-pin fan headers with one offering up to 3A/36W of power for water-cooling pumps. In addition, you get a pair of coolant flow meter headers, a thermal probe header, and a quartet of RGB headers too.
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Among the biggest additions to AMD’s AM4 platform is the introduction of PCIe 4.0 support, courtesy of the new X570 chipset. X570 marks the first consumer motherboard chipset to feature native PCIe 4.0 – which can double the bandwidth available for everything from SSDs to video cards, offering the opportunity to improve performance when these peripherals get bus-bottlenecked.
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The ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming arrives at around £299/$330, this puts it considerably higher than the closest model from the previous generation, the ASUS ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming which was available at launch for a little over half the price, which in itself was a reduction on the X370 equivalent.
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