ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact, X570, Mini-DTX Gaming Motherboard, AMD, AM4, Ryzen 3000, 10 Power Stages, PCIe 4.0, M.2, DDR4, OptiMem III, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Intel LAN, USB 3.2, Aura Sync, SATA, SFF

This motherboard was a pleasure to install and very straightforward. It offers connections for all front connections including USBC headers, and fits most mini itx cases that don't do the sandwich thing (without pcie risers).The board is very high quality and with a nice finish although I found some metallic dust that I had to wipe away.Very good layout for all the connections, and very good VRMs. On the back of the board, you get an easy access to reset your bios which came in handy when overclocking my ram (managed to get my RAM from 3600 CL18 to 3733 CL 16). No wasted connections in the back, I find PS2 and HDMI ports superfluous given CPUs with no APUs will always be run here, this board just gives you USBC and USB3. WiFi 6 is superb, so fast, and that audio quality is fantastic. The sodimm daughterboard is neat and works very well. The attention to detail is really apparent here, and this allowed me to build up a true gaming Beast that fits under my desk.The board automatically overclocks things for you, and the only thing I don't like is if you do manual CPU overclocking you lose the speed switching and there's no explanation of all the different overclocking options available. I started toying with them but I didn't want a fixed CPU speed and preferred letting the system change speed on its own.I'm blown away by the gaming performance, the system is totally stable and amazingly quick.It is the most expensive board in this form factor, but I am really pleased with all the features, the WiFi and Audio chips here are outstanding and the rest of the system will support one more generation of cpu upgrades and the next generation of pcie 4 devices. I wish the more complex overclocking features could be leveraged in a wizard (sorry pros) but I got my small overclock in and this is a wonderful stable and high performance platform for a small form factor gaming machine and I'm very impressed. Highly recommend it.

It’s a great board, bit pricey though. Used in a Razer tomahawk mini.

This motherboard is awesome, although it’s mini-DTX it should fit most NON-sandwich styled mini-ITX cases. It fits nicely in my old Silverstone FT03-mini.This is a high-quality motherboard with an overall good layout. Most of the important connectors; 24-pin power, 8-pin cpu power, USB 3.0, USB-C header and SATA are all on one side of the motherboard which makes cable management easier in a small form factor build. However, depending on your case the front panel audio connector might be a squeeze or inaccessible as it is on the bottom of the motherboard at a right angle.This motherboard is the only small form factor (mini-DTX/mini-ITX) X570 motherboard with an internal USB-C header and it is the only small form factor x570 & b550 motherboard with a rear post code display. It also has the most rear USB-A ports (7) compared to the rest of the small form factor x570 & b550 motherboards. Though, this is at the cost of display outputs and a PS/2 port. However, it is disappointing that this motherboard does not include 2.5 or 5 gigabit ethernet considering how expensive this motherboard is. WiFi isn’t of much use to me as I want the lowest possible network latency with 100% stability.In use this motherboard was painless to setup with its intuitive UEFI interface and was able to get up and running in Windows in no time at all.Performance and stability have been excellent with a Ryzen 9 3900xt paired with 32GB of crucial ballistix DDR4 running at 3800 MHz Cl16 at 1900 FCLK.Overall, I can recommend this solid small form factor motherboard.

Great board overall, but an overkill for everyday gamer, you can get same performance with any x570i for half the money.Chipset fan make terrible noise when pc is cold, m.2 expansion card is sagging.Honest opinion not worth yhe money under no circumstances.

I must admit its a neatly built sturdy like heck motherboard but the future owner must get an extra set of nerves for installation. I spent literally days on forums and debug trials to find out a post memory init error q code 46(4b) fix. Plus cpu diag led error... as it came out by accident against my best judgement: do not screw down the board with 4 screwes and you are fine to go! The board itself if you use it with 5950x like i do its an absolute beast plenty of space to tinker with settings . My hint : put a sheet of paper under the board shield and you fine to go.

Very nice little motherboard

now this is the best motherboard I have ever owned full stop. Now I advise reading instructions and familiarise yourself with the layout because it is different from any motherboard I have used but once you get your head round where everything is wow