so nice, too bad it's so late in the cycle. this would give the crosshair VIII dark hero a run for the money

I had a board die about a month ago. I was going to upgrade my 1800x/x370 to a 5800x/570s but ended up getting a B550-F Wifi from Asus. I'm not mad I don't lose much that I care about. With one PCIe 4.0 slot and one PCIe 4.0 M2 drive that is going to be a good compromise.

While fanless is a big step up for me personally, and I'd happily choose X570 over B550 is the price delta was lower, the feature set doesn't impress. One type C (even if 2x2)? One 2.5Gb Ethernet (though Intel at least)? No diagnostic LED? I appreciate the 6 SATA ports and decent number of back panel USB ports but those are the only really compelling selling point here. Even if you actually need the extra PCIe 4.0 connectivity, and thus X570, there are plenty of more interesting options. Obviously this is incredibly personal, and subject to local pricing, but in my (slowly..) ongoing build I ended up getting the Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P for ~30% less than this and that's just my personal example, plenty of boards around that are more compelling. It was probably inevitable that motherboards start getting out of hand with pricing too but even in the current market this seems like a $190 to $220 board to me. *shrug* Mind, I'm sure it's an excellent board... I just don't see why anyone would want to buy this specifically.

I am not buying a motherboard with an active fan, that's for sure.

Noisiv:

I am not buying a motherboard with an active fan, that's for sure.

The fan on the orginal x570 isnt even on until it reaches 60c on the chipset (which never does in a good airflow case).

i use both a gigabyte b-550 vision and an Asus b-550 proart for work both are superior to all but enthusiast grade x-570, have dual LAN, and the Asus, being newer has TB 4 instead of TB3 on the Vision. and they both laugh at Ryzen 9's demands the proart b-550 is IMHO the best AM4 board not aimed at LN2 or bragging rights and it's actually less than crosshair VIII (actually same board minus chipset and plus TB4) or the top MSI, Gigabyte, etc..

tunejunky:

the proart b-550 is IMHO the best AM4 board not aimed at LN2 or bragging rights and it's actually less than crosshair VIII (actually same board minus chipset and plus TB4) or the top MSI, Gigabyte, etc..

The ProArt was my other choice. 🙂 The reason I went with the Gigabyte were that a) it was slightly cheaper, b) I couldn't find as good info regarding ECC support on the ProArt and c) anecdotally more issues with getting TB working. Both great boards for sure and had my choice been only the vanilla Gigabyte B550 Vision D, rather than the D-P which has improved networking and a front USB C header, I would probably have gone with the Asus. Same point though, it's a weird market for motherboards at the moment.

Undying:

The fan on the orginal x570 isnt even on until it reaches 60c on the chipset (which never does in a good airflow case).

I concur, i have the x570 aorus pro and the fan is silent, DEAD silent.

Pro is $330USD?! How much is the Master going to cost? $400 USD? Good luck with that.