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Not really worth it unless if your into XOC. Or if you just have tons of money, go for it, awesome motherboard. If you do not plan on overclocking your processor, I would highly recommend you choose a different motherboard. 

 

The liquid cooled VRM's are pretty unnecessary though, the VRM's are already good enough quality that they will not overheat even with a normal air heatsink.

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Does anyone here have a X570 ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula?

If yes how good is it?

Is it worth the money?

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Not really worth it unless if your into XOC. Or if you just have tons of money, go for it, awesome motherboard. If you do not plan on overclocking your processor, I would highly recommend you choose a different motherboard. 

 

The liquid cooled VRM's are pretty unnecessary though, the VRM's are already good enough quality that they will not overheat even with a normal air heatsink.

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13 minutes ago, Fakmykak said:

Not really worth it unless if your into XOC. Or if you just have tons of money, go for it, awesome motherboard. If you do not plan on overclocking your processor, I would highly recommend you choose a different motherboard. 

 

The liquid cooled VRM's are pretty unnecessary though, the VRM's are already good enough quality that they will not overheat even with a normal air heatsink.

Ye i kinda want to learn how to overclock. i do know how to use the ryzen master but nothing other than that

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It's up to you. But I would try to go for something a bit cheaper, and use the money you save to get a better GPU. You do not need the biggest baddest board to overclock.

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If you want something for just the looks then I'm sure it's close to taking top spot, it's absolutely stunning. Otherwise don't bother. It's just a Crosshair Hero with the capability to watercool the vrms along with a fancy oled panel which is simply there to try to justify the price tag. It doesn't even allow you to watercool the chipset, or even have a chipset heapipe. Honestly...if you're going for high end x570, just go for the MSI creation. It costs less than the Formula and gives you everything. The Formula doesn't even have 10g ethernet, and we're talking about a $700 board here for goodness sakes.

 

I don't know which is worse, the Godlike having only 5 USB ports on the back (That is unforgivable) or the Formula just being a Hero with a watercooling thing and some stupid oled panel.

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13 minutes ago, MeatFeastMan said:

If you want something for just the looks then I'm sure it's close to taking top spot, it's absolutely stunning. Otherwise don't bother. It's just a Crosshair Hero with the capability to watercool the vrms along with a fancy oled panel which is simply there to try to justify the price tag. It doesn't even allow you to watercool the chipset, or even have a chipset heapipe. Honestly...if you're going for high end x570, just go for the MSI creation. It costs less than the Formula and gives you everything. The Formula doesn't even have 10g ethernet, and we're talking about a $700 board here for goodness sakes.

 

I don't know which is worse, the Godlike having only 5 USB ports on the back (That is unforgivable) or the Formula just being a Hero with a watercooling thing and some stupid oled panel.

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I do extreme oc and i only have the hero, the formula is totally pointless :P 

 

The creation is better than the godlike for most things if you want msi. 

 

The gigabyte extreme is the only board thats fully passive. 

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The formula is a joke. They took the Hero and put a waterblock on the VRMs and gave you a piece of shit LCD (LED?) screen that you don't need for an extra $300+!!! The only boards I'd consider at that price bracket are the Godlike and Aorus Extreme.. 

 

I had the VIII Hero but switched up to the MEG ACE and am super happy! 

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I also have an ACE, I considered the forumula but didnt see the value and the Godlike was killed by the fact that it was Eatx and I couldnt fit that with my distroplate. I have been very happy with everything with my ACE so far except im having issues updating the BIOS but I fully admit thats probably a "me thing" not a "them thing"

 

 

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I have decided to go for the ASUS ROG Crosshair Hero VIII motherboard

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