ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Crosshair VIII Impact and Strix X570-I Gaming

2019/09/12

Key Points

  • Power, cooling and connectivity: Engineered with 8+2 teamed power stages, and an active VRM and chipset heatsink, plus both Wi-Fi 6 and PCIe 4.0
  • ROG Crosshair VIII Impact: Impact joins Crosshair range, a mini motherboard with mighty ATX-grade overclocking design elements and features
  • Seamlessly works with Xbox One Supports variable refresh rates (VRR) via an HDMI connection for smooth, big-screen console gaming
  • ROG Strix X570-I Gaming: : Mini-ITX board packed with cooling and DIY-friendly features, including AIO pump header alongside and easy-access M.2 slots

Markham, Canada (September 12, 2019 ) - ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the arrival of the much-anticipated ROG small-form-factor (SFF) motherboards: ROG Crosshair VIII Impact and ROG Strix X570-I Gaming. These all-new ROG SFF boards have been meticulously tuned to create no-compromise X570 motherboards that treat users to the full-on ROG experience in a small package.

Crosshair VIII Impact and Strix X570-I Gaming are aimed at two distinctly different types of user. The Crosshair VIII series heralds the arrival of Impact, the compact motherboard with colossal potential — and a tantalizing prospect for those who want to push the limit of the latest Ryzen 3000 CPUs and memory. ROG Strix X570-I Gaming, by contrast, is for gamers looking to build an exceptional Mini-ITX gaming system, replete with all the essential ROG features, performance and overclocking prowess.

Both new motherboards are engineered to maximize performance from high-core-count (HCC) Ryzen 3000-series CPUs, while staying cool with an active voltage-regulator module (VRM) and chipset heatsink — enabling performance junkies and gamers to embrace serious power in a small form.

Power design that bucks the trend

HCC processors need reliable power delivery, minimal latency and accurate timing. Crosshair VIII Impact and Strix X570-I Gaming feature the latest VRM architecture with teamed Infineon TDA21472 power stages that rapidly swing current, while maintaining exemplary thermal performance. Sitting at the top of their lineup, the Infineon TDA21472 power stage features a low RDSON to reduce switching and conduction losses, improving overall thermal headroom. Both motherboards feature an 8+2 power-stage design, able to handle up to 70 amps.

Active VRM and chipset combo heatsink

In an SFF build with an HCC processor at its heart, reliable, high-efficiency cooling is essential to prevent performance-sapping throttling. Both Crosshair VIII Impact and Strix X570-I Gaming feature beefy heatsinks, plus two custom Delta Superflo fans rated to last more than 60,000 hours — amounting to very many years of continuous real-world use. Though featuring different designs to reflect and accommodate the different layouts of the two motherboards, both are specifically configured to cool the VRM and chipset efficiently and consistently.

Dual PCIe 4.0 M.2 and Wi-Fi 6, built right in

The new Ryzen 3000-series processors are designed to pair with the X570 chipset — the first desktop chipset to put next-generation PCI Express 4.0 connectivity at consumers’ disposal. Crosshair VIII Impact and Strix X570-I Gaming both have PCIe x16 and M.2 slots that are wired with PCIe 4.0, opening a whole new world of high-performance graphics card and NVMe drive without the worry of bandwidth constraints.