ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero

4.5 stars

The best X570 ever created, and the last AM4 board you'll ever need

9.5 out of 10

For those who want quietness and reliability, there is good reason to opt for this model since its massive heatsinks effectively void the need for active cooling on the X570 chipset.

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Top notch X570 enthusiast mainboard!

Highend Recommendation

Due to the numerous ports, features and performance, we give the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero a "top class" recommendation.

Excellent Hardware

The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero represents a dream motherboard for many converters, as it offers an extensive feature set, passive chipset cooling, and an exclusive overclocking feature.

Editor's Choice

It is one of the thickest, coolest, most beautiful boards on the market, and one that does not allow you to feel any negative emotions when using the bios and software...

Best of 2020 Gold

Techtesters Best of 2020 Awards The best of the best of the best!

Teckknow Gold Award

The ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero packs all modern features that incorporate all of the 4+ years of AMD AM4 platform as X570 will be the last high-end AM4 chipset before the switch to a new socket for Zen 4 processors with DDR5 memory support. So, in that sense, this is the last and the best X570 motherboard by ASUS. The VRM is built for the extreme and ready for anything with a premium 90A 8-phase parallel (8×2) design, that can handle LN2 and your world record ambition if you like.

Excellent

Power and control for all types of users

Platinum

one of the best boards this generation has seen for the X570 platform.

編輯推薦

這次的實測也驗證了AMD Ryzen 5000系列在Dark Hero上的絕佳表現，不論是在跑分軟體、遊戲還是創作程式，其所展現的效能都是無庸置疑的強大，相信對於追求外型和極致效能的玩家來說，ROG Corsshair VIII Dark Hero + AMD Ryzen 9 5950X的組合將會是將主機效能推至頂點的關鍵。

玩家推薦

AMD Ryzen 5000 強勢出擊，憑著 Zen 3 架構更新 19% IPC 提升，更在單核、多核與遊戲效能中奪得「最強遊戲處理器」之美名，但因為這代 I/O Die 沒更新的情況下，沿用著既有 X570、B550 與 400 系列主機板；因此華碩 ROG 則讓英雄再臨，主要改變為無風扇設計的「ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero」主機板，維持著 16 相供電、PCIe 4.0、雙 M.2 與 8 SATA 擴充，以及背板多達 12 個 USB、雙 1GbE + 2.5GbE 與 Wi-Fi 6 等高規格。

HKEPC Editor's Choice 2020

it has strengthened the CPU design to supply electricity, overclocking and motherboard heat-cooling

PCM Best Performance 2020

Stable and reliable performance

Best of the Year 2021 Award

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero made me very happy this year. The board we're using for testing has arrived in this new passive version and it's just perfect in every way, while still not costing complete nonsense.

DD´s Recommended

It is primarily a complexity, ie a combination of still reasonable price, passive cooling, extremely high quality workmanship, including extreme OC support, reasonable design and ATX size. Then yes, the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO is probably the best set and X570 board on the market today.

Enthusiast Recommended

The board tested today is top notch in all directions, the functionality is 100%. If you want an absolute highend for the Ryzen 5000, there's nothing to deal with. But just because of that you can't buy this board. The main reason is Dynamic OC Switcher and overclocking.

Overclocker's Heaven

Dark Hero is an excellent hi-end board that will please especially extreme clockers, tuners, 'freecoolins' and passive cooling enthusiasts. Basically, I don't have much to blame for the board, the price is traditionally high for a product of this type, while the board would have a longer warranty.

Special solution

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is a very powerful motherboard with a lot to offer