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
2021 is still not the place for consumers to use SFP/SFP+ it's a enterprice thing.
Yes I work in support at a small computer business even with use CAT6 regularly even business laptops and desktops only comes with gigabit ethernet for office use they haven't even concidered 2.5G options onboard.
'I don't need it, hence nobody else does' is one of my all-time favorites.
And no, no consumer motherboard is going to need QSFP+, sorry, but you're really barking up the wrong tree here dude.
I have 10Gbps between this machine and my NAS, so yeah, I have nothing against fast networking speeds, but this board is not the market for what you're asking for.
Been wanting an Asus Extreme board for a while.
must be typo just like what msi listed on its x570.
According to asus only 3 support 4.0 but the way they explain it is convoluted.
Sabertooth Sounds better than Rox Strix.
3x NVME 4.0
2x NVME 3.0
and still run primary PCIe 4.0 x16 ?
Or at some point something has to be sacrificed ?
Tuf isn't as cool as sabertooth
My x99 sabertooth asus with broadwell-e bios did kill quite a few haswell-e sabertooths mine is the only one in original existence from 2015
If you connect a PCIe bridge chip, you could take four PCIe 4.0 lanes and turn them into eight PCIe 3.0, so yes it can be.
MSI also used PCIe 3.0 redrivers on some of their boards to force some lanes to be slower and to reduce cost, so again, it can be done.Yes, it should be possible on this board, but we won't know for sure until we have a board diagram.
as asm1184e takes gen2x1 as upstream only, i doubt it is really using gen3x1 from z490 chipset instead.
good luck hoping mobo manufactures to use gen4 bridge on x570 while we have almost never seen a gen3 bridge used on mainstream mobos.
what you said (gen4-->more gen3 // gen3--> more gen2) is even more hopeless to see. it is like we only see 10g usb hub/pcie ic used on two z590 extreme (asus and gigabyte).
asm1184e
www.asmedia.com.tw/zh-Hant/product/556yQ9dSX7gP9Tuf/b7FyQBCxz2URbzg0
z490 aqua
www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z490%20AQUA/Specification.asp#Specification
www.bilibili.com/read/cv72981555 nvme x4=20 lanes,
if you want x16 from cpu intactly, then chipset needs to be allocated x16 for 4*m.2 for you.
and then you have no on board network to use lol. go get some USB stick for wifi.
just kidding, no you probably cant have five x4 m.2 plus gpu x16.
x570 - 16 pcie
tb4 - x4
pcie x1 slot - x1
6 sata takes - x2 (4 out of 6 are not by pcie)
2*m.2 - x8
2*lan - x2
wifi - x1
18 pcie used if all of them are natively/direclty provided by chipset. so i think pcie controller ic is used to save some pcie lanes.
for example asm1061 , used x1 to provide 2*sata instead of x2 to provide 2*sata (by chipset).
also it seems there maybe some gen3 bridge used, super rare stuff.
You make no sense at all, this is an AMD X570 board, what does that have to do with an Intel Z490 board?
I hope you're aware that ASMedia isn't the only company making PCIe bridge chips, in fact, they were late to the game.
And you don't need to inform me of their product range, I'm well aware of it and I have both written about their products and incorporated their chips into a product.
In fact, what you're calling a controller is a bridge/splitter, not a controller.
You might want to consider some of their more up to date parts as well, that have more lanes.
Such as this for example.
www.asmedia.com.tw/product/507Yq4asXFzi9qt4/7c5YQ79xz8urEGr1
but when you google asm2182 + asus(or msi or whatever), the results are ...
on z490 if i remember it correctly only biostar uses asm2806.
back to this x570, if those m.2 are really gen3x4, maybe some usb to nvme "BRIDGE" (again, named by asmedia on for example asm2362) is used.
but asus bianbao said they are all gen4 slots on this x570 extreme.
i don't really care whether nxp / ti / diodes have designed such ic or not, in fact mobo vendors 99% wont use them, just like the poor 10g usb hub/controller/bridge whatever.
ps. intel z590 has 24 pcie lane natively, while x570 has 16 only, but even that on z590 we only see 5*m.2 mobo like asus extreme, just one.
given lots of high end z490's 3*m.2 slots are provided by the chipset, we should have seen max 6*m.2 on z590 (3 by cpu and 3 by chipset), but in fact, no such thing.