Overclocking

The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact proved to be right around other X570 boards I have looked at. It did not quite match the 4.5 GHz all core the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X managed, but did come close at 4475 MHz stable. I consider this a good result for my Ryzen 5 3600X sample, and given the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact has a plethora of overclocking aids and exotic cooling support, I think this is an excellent board to push the Ryzen 3000 processors to their limit.


The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact has the ever-important post-code display conveniently located on the rear I/O. There are also safe boot and retry buttons in the bottom-left corner of the board.




When it comes to memory-clock stability, the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact proved adequate, but not exceptional. XMP was perfectly stable, and I was able to squeeze out 4400 MHz without touching voltages on my T-Force Xtreem kit. Nothing to sneeze at, but I was expecting better from a board with only two DIMM slots. While I was hoping for higher results, ASUS has done a great job of making the memory overclocking process as painless as possible with features like "MemOK!" that will make adjustments to the memory settings if the board fails to post. This takes a lot of stress out of the equation and makes memory overclocking more accessible for less experienced users.