Friday, July 30th 2021
ASUS Launches ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme Motherboard
ASUS today launched the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Crosshair VIII Extreme motherboard. This would go down as the first "Extreme" tier ROG Crosshair motherboard ever, as the AMD platform was relegated to "Formula" or "Hero" tiers. Built in the E-ATX form-factor, the board is based on the AMD X570 chipset (with fanless chipset cooling), comes with out of the box support for Ryzen 5000 "Vermeer" and Ryzen 5000G "Cezanne" processors, besides all other processor generations supported by the X570. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, and two 8-pin EPS; and uses an 18+2 phase CPU VRM that has 90 A power stages.
The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme is loaded to the brim with connectivity. Storage options include three M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slots, and six SATA 6 Gbps ports. Networking connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6E powered by an Intel controller, a 10 GbE interface driven by a Marvell AQtion controller, and a 2.5 GbE interface, from an Intel i225-V controller. USB connectivity includes 20 Gbps USB 3.2x2 ports with 60 W power delivery. The onboard audio solution is top-of-the-line, featuring a Realtek ALC4082 CODEC running alongside an ESS Sabre ES9018Q2C, and ROG Clavis USB DAC. The board is brimming with features relevant to overclockers. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme is loaded to the brim with connectivity. Storage options include three M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slots, and six SATA 6 Gbps ports. Networking connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6E powered by an Intel controller, a 10 GbE interface driven by a Marvell AQtion controller, and a 2.5 GbE interface, from an Intel i225-V controller. USB connectivity includes 20 Gbps USB 3.2x2 ports with 60 W power delivery. The onboard audio solution is top-of-the-line, featuring a Realtek ALC4082 CODEC running alongside an ESS Sabre ES9018Q2C, and ROG Clavis USB DAC. The board is brimming with features relevant to overclockers. The company didn't reveal pricing.
59 Comments on ASUS Launches ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme Motherboard
Let me guess, it will be priced like a 1k because it is extreme?
Marvell has at least, finally, gotten up the product brief for the AQC113xx and some other related parts.
Looks like the reason why there's such a big shift to the new parts is because they support PCIe 4.0 x1, so they use up a lot fewer PCIe lanes.
It really seems like they've also added 10Mbps support for some odd reason and even a SKU that tops out at Gigabit speed :confused:
www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/ethernet-adaptersandcontrollers/marvell-fastLinq-edge-aqc113-aqc113c-aqc113cs-aqc114cs-aqc115c-aqc116c-product-brief.pdf
However, there's "only" support for three PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the other two slots are PCIe 3.0.
After AMD's decision to single out and discontinue AGESA maintenance for X370-based motherboards despite having no actual valid technical reason as to why do so beyond a generic "300 series motherboards were built to an inferior standard" (despite the X470 being the exact same ASIC and most 400 series being carbon copies or using similar components with similar characteristics) - going as far as fabricating theories such as low BIOS ROM storage sizes which were quickly debunked by the enthusiast community - and then going out of their way to actively stop the motherboard manufacturers that decided to provide support for newer processors anyway (AsRock), I would guess that it's best if it a product like the C6E "just disappeared".
High end boards that weren't updated at the request of AMD like the Crosshair VI ended their update cycle with full functionality and ROM space to spare - so much that the only change added to the 8002 BIOS for this motherboard was an SPI flash protection module.
Full disclaimer here, I was salty at this as a C6H owner and I barely got over it because I managed to flip it and get a more or less equivalent board (my B550-E) at basically no cost to me, so... :toast:
www.newegg.com/asus-crosshair-iv-extreme/p/N82E16813131667
rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-crosshair-vi-extreme-model/
As others pointed out... ~2 minutes to google that.
I have an impact, and a question.
I like power delivery as much as the next guy and I guess if you're paying around 700$ for a AM4 board you should get EVERYTHING there is to get but this seems excessive
More so, SFP cages are actually cheap since the expensive stuff is in the SFP themselves.Most TridentZ are very vast, so improvements in DDR5 are marginal in comparison.
That having been said though, I feel like this new iteration is way too late in the lifecycle of AM4 and is simply for those chasing epic e-peen points.