This motherboard pretty much has everything you need without going over the $350 mark. It has plenty of connectivity on the IO side. All my earlier critiques of the motherboard have all been fixed with BIOS updates. This board comes with an Intel NIC which are arguably better than anything Realtek makes. It also has a 1200 series audio codec if sound is important to you. The BIOS has matured and is compatible with pretty much any AMD Ryzen CPU from the 2000 series up. Memory compatibility has improved greatly. I can attest that the VRM is robust as I've upgraded to a 5900X and use it on all core heavy computational workloads 24/7.

Anyone who has owned ASUS products knows that the hardware is top notch. The other thing they are aware of is their supporting software sucks and always has. Armoury Crate is alright, but it could be better. Really the only reason to have Armoury Crate is for RGB control (if you want to use Aura), everything else it does is done better by third party software solutions.

So as I said this was an update to my original review. The product has been improved over the past year of my ownership. In doing so it's earned the two stars that I denied it in my original review. This is a worthy motherboard for your consideration if you want a good X570 motherboard without paying too much or compromising too much.

Runs at decent temperatures Haven’t had a problem with it in just over a year now

The fan was a bit difficult to mount and get locked in place.

This is a good reliable board. It’s bios is laggy to navigate but all the info you may need to access is all there and easy to deal with.

Stopped working after 6 months

You can get better for the same price or less. This board lasted only 6 months. Asus warranty is horrible as well. They made me spend extra money to tell me they wont warranty my board even though I told them whats going on through the chat and was told to not worry about it and send it in. stay away from this board, save your money and get something what will last longer than 6 months

I can't say anything bad about the hardware itself. Very robust looking, all the features you should really need.

The RAM I wanted with this build was out of stock. The salesperson suggested the Trident Z RGB 3200 16GB kit, which I found out later wasn't on the QVL. Normally this isn't an issue particularly with Intel builds. However there is a setting in the BIOS that is missing from this board that many other X570 motherboards have. It's called DRAM Vboot Voltage and helps systems with RAM run above JEDEC speeds (in this case 3200) POST. Without this setting the motherboard attempts to train the RAM at 1.2V which is typically insufficient for RAM at those speeds. ASUS support won't even discuss the issue if your RAM isn't on the QVL, so you are on your own. I managed to get it running at 2933 reliably, 3066 is hit or miss on whether it'll POST. This motherboard isn't good at recovering on it's own when it doesn't POST, this forced me to short the clear CMOS pins every time I tried something else.

If you are getting this board and intend to use higher speed RAM with this motherboard, make sure it's on the QVL. Though it's my assertion that without the above mentioned setting, it's unlikely this motherboard will POST with higher RAM speed settings even if it's on the QVL. This is unfortunate since it's well known that Ryzen benefits from RAM speeds in the 3200 - 3600 range. It's my hope that ASUS will add this setting to the BIOS though I won't hold my breath. ASUS hardware is awesome, there software is laughable, and their support is atrocious.

New bios runs ryzen 3800x real fast raising base clock to 4.2 ghz in windows 10 taskman over clocking cant say but not needed imo

Ai Suite won't control your strix gpu fan which is a bonus one less thing to think about so that sucks

This will do just fine enough good x570 board