ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Extreme Review

Test Setup

We already know how good the X570 chipset is, so rather than give you our full suite of tests compared to other X570 motherboards, we’ve instead cast our eye on what you can expect when compared to a few of the things we have in our available resources.

ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Extreme
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
G.Skill Trident Z Royal 4000 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Aorus PCIE4 NVME – Storage Speed Tests
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans

Clock Speeds

Our X570 results were obtained with the Ryzen 9 3900X – the best CPU at the time the X570 launched – but we know that people aren’t investing in the Extreme just to use an old CPU. We’ve therefore got some Ryzen 9 3900X results for comparison purposes, and then some tests using the Ryzen 5000 series processors and the Crosshair VIII Impact. Just to give you a glimpse of what the Extreme can bring to your CPU, here’s the Ryzen 9 5900X running at 4.9 GHz across all 12 cores. Yeah, it’s not hard up for some ability.