If you're buying the ultimate CPU in a given family, sometimes you want the ultimate motherboard to stretch it. The $379.99 ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) is one of Asus' elite AMD X570 boards that targets enthusiast gamers and overclockers. It's not quite to the level of Asus' over-the-top ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Formula, but it's several hundred bucks less and offers all you could want in an overclocking mobo apart from integrated liquid cooling. The software presented some install hiccups, but that's a modest quibble. The feature loadout and understated look should please builders looking to build out an AMD-based desktop based on a core-rich third-gen Ryzen CPU, such as the Ryzen 9 3900X. Just know that you need to leverage a bunch of performance-minded stuff—PCI Express 4.0, the overclocking—to make it a workable value.
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