ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (Wi-Fi) Review

UEFI & Test configuration

By now we most of us should be familiar with the ROG UEFI. It has all the basic and advanced configuration and tweaking options you need. Back again from the Crosshair VII are the performance enhancing modes that modify XFR operation and the like. I didn’t find this to have any impact on performance or overclocking but that just may be due to the early firmware used.
That said, the UEFI could do with a visual overhaul, if only to add more functionality such as increased character input space for the user profiles. Something akin to what EVGA and MSI have on their latest high-end boards. Outside of this, the ROG UEFI remains the best UEFI for me, at least in terms of functionality.

Test Configuration

As always with motherboard tests, differences between boards tend to be academic for the most part. It is only in situations where there is drastic performance difference that one should be concerned. Any performance differences between boards are usually within the margin of error and as such, one should look to the numbers as performance you should expect, rather than a competition against another board with the same chipset at configured in the same manner. In the case of the Crosshair VIII Hero, all testing was done with a pre retail BIOS utilizing an older AGESA 1.0.0.2. As such what you see here is likely to be the worst-case scenario and performance on your machine should be at least the same or better than what you see here.

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