The Asus X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero aims to be the perfect “Goldilocks”-level choice with its price and available feature set. Coming in at $399, it packs enough premium specs to make you wonder if it’s even necessary to spend more. PCI-E Gen 4? Got it. Connectivity for most USB and networking needs? Got it here, too.
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Today we are looking at the ASUS X570 ROG Crosshair VIII HERO Wi-Fi Edition. For those who are familiar with ASUS and its Republic of Gamers (ROG) series, it should be a little to no surprise to anyone that ASUS has put great care and thought into the ROG Crosshair VIII as one of the flagship X570 motherboards on the market. It isn’t even the most expensive one, which makes it all that much more appealing.
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When it comes to AMD motherboards the Republic of Gamers Crosshair boards have always been some of the best out there. If you didn’t know ASUS actually launched the Republic of Gamers line with the Crosshair AM2 motherboard and the first AM4 motherboard I ever reviewed was the ROG Crosshair VI Hero. Two generations later we have the X570 chipset which brings with it quite a lot of performance and features.
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The trend of covering more and more of the PCB with add-on parts continues with the eighth generation of Crosshair. The cover of the I / O area has become a bit bulky, the chipset cooler and M.2 cooler merge into one larger cooling block. The silver strip, starting at the top left on the I / O cover and ending at the bottom right on the chipset cooler, is equipped with LEDs and can therefore be designed individually.
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The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII HERO (WiFi) has been equipped with the accoutrement one would expect from the ROG brand ASUS has built up. With M.2 heatsinks on both slots, a premium lighting solution, integrated rear I/O shield, and great ASUS BIOS, the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII HERO (WiFi) has the ingredients of a premium board. Does it have the performance as well?
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The Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi’s $380 price point lands it in the upper mid-range of all X570 boards. The overall experience with the board was positive, as stock testing completed without a hitch and performance was as expected, with results right around the other boards.
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Like most high-end motherboards today, the X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) is built on a black PCB. This board also has black heatsinks over the VRMs and chipset, as well as black shrouds over the rear I/O ports and audio circuitry.
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Despite the occasional missteps and brand dilution, the ROG brand has been remarkably consistent and excellent overall. Therefore, we have high hopes for the latest incarnation of the Crosshair series. The Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi is based on AMD’s X570 chipset and costs around $379.99 at the time of this writing.
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Today we take a look at ASUS’s staple motherboard for the X570 platform, the Hero. Many vendors, including ASUS, have taken steps to build up their X570 motherboards to be even meaner and more loaded than their X470 motherboards, and in this case, it’s true when we compare the VII and VIII Hero motherboards.
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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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