The Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero is a solid offering, but that price!? Of course, wider economic concerns and supply chain issues bear some of the blame, but at $699 / £649 / AU$1,189, this is ...

Comparing the Hero to the Dark Hero, the only real change we find is in the VRM. In this case, ASUS has swapped out the 60A power stages for 90A, keeping with the parallel design found initially ...

Our Verdict The Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero is packed with great next-gen features such as DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5, comes with plenty of USB ports and M.2 slots, and has a slick premium design.

Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero If you're after a stable and refined motherboard to extract every last drop of performance out of your CPU and memory, this is the board for you.

Like all X870 and X870E motherboards, the X870E Hero can be considered an evolutionary update over its X670E predecessor. It incorporates almost all the features you'd expect from a premium ROG board.

Dark hues predominate the surface of the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero, providing an intense backdrop for your build. Polymo lighting across the integrated I/O shield delivers a sizzling accent.

This is where the ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) comes in handy. The standard board is, as we say, £400, and the WiFi version an extra £20.

Featuring the new X670 chipset with an AM5 socket, the Crosshair X670E Extreme supports recently-detailed AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs and the latest graphics cards in its two PCI 5.0 x16 lanes. Extending ...

Asus's X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (and its "Dark Hero" variant) top out at Ryzen 5000, but it hits a sweet spot in terms of price and features that should please price-conscious PC builders.

ASUS has equipped it with Vishay SiC850A 110A Smart Power Stages (SPS) for the main phases, a choice seen in other high-end boards like the X670E Crosshair Hero, ensuring efficient power delivery ...