ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact Review

Test Setup

The latest updates promise to improve single thread performance in those tests that have a separate score for such things, so we look forward to discovering how the Impact fares.

ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Impact (1001 BIOS)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
G.Skill Trident Z 3600 MHz
Corsair Vengeance RGB 4600 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Aorus PCIE4 NVME – Storage Speed Tests
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans

Overclocking

Despite being a curious size between a full ATX and a ITX, but not an mATX, the Impact pushes out some impressive scores on our demanding Ryzen 9 3900X with 4.37 GHz across the 24 threads. If you want to commit to higher memory speeds instead of CPU ones then the Impact is equally capable with support for 4600 MHz DDR4.