ASUS ProArt X570-Creator WiFi AMD X570S Ryzen AM4 ATX Content Creation Motherboard(PCIe 4.0, Passive PCH Cooling, 2xThunderbolt 4 Type-C Ports, 10…
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Specification: ASUS ProArt X570-Creator WiFi AMD X570S Ryzen AM4 ATX Content Creation Motherboard(PCIe 4.0, Passive PCH Cooling, 2xThunderbolt 4 Type-C Ports, 10…
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Alejandro Martinez –
Overall It’s an amazing board, if you already own an AM4 socket CPU and you want to have a versatile PC this will do great, I owned multiple external drives and I planned to use the 3 M.2 slots as much as possible, it also has a lot of interesting details that make you wonder “why would not all motherboards come with this?”, but there’s a few things you must know:
Using all the M.2 slots will reduce your PCIE4 speeds for other components such as graphic card or anything else you have connected to your secondary PCIE connector. As they share the same “lines” as the M2 ones. My solution was connecting the main M2 (OS) drive on the main first connector and my secondary NVME drive (storage) to the M2 3rd connector instead of the 2nd one.
Another minor detail that can be a little troublesome for GPU installation is that the M2 -1 heat sink is very, very close to the PCIe x16 slot, making it really hard to remove the graphic card, especially with bigger cards. Which can cause many issues with the usual problem people have when as there’s little room to maneuver for you to press the unlocking tab and you could end up either damaging your motherboard or graphics card if you end up using a screwdriver or other stuff to press the tab.
Other than that I highly recommend this card for people that are still not ready to move to Zen 4 or change to Intel, as you will still be able to get a lot of juice out of this (especially if you plan to get or have a 5950x down the road, which IMO is what this MOBO deserves to have in) for a bunch of years until you will actually need to update again.
Chantal –
This motherboard seems to be hit or miss based on the reviews I’ve read. However, I’m running a Ryzen 9 5950x, 4x 16GB Corsair DDR4 Dominator RAM, and NVIDIA RTX 3090 TI GPU with an Apollo x4 audio interface (which requires Thunderbolt and prompted my decision to buy this board). I imagine the draw to this board is Thunderbolt compatibility (Intel proprietary technology) for most, as it was for me. But it works like trash. I’ve had problem after problem with this board. I still maintain that AMD makes better processors than Intel, but I’m going go straight “Office Space” on this piece of junk mother board and do a complete rebuild simply because there exists ZERO alternatives for a more advanced motherboard if you’re running an AMD processor and you need Thunderbolt. This board works half as good as my previous ASUS TUF board, and I purchased it because the Thunderbolt and (3) M2 connectors for my various SSD drives. I use my system for Audio and Video editing and rather intensive ML/DL algorithms for research (or that was the plan at least). However, I constantly have to troubleshoot this board to use the Thunderbolt ports, and despite the selling points being content creation (i.e., graphic design, audio engineering, etc…) it does NONE of these well due to the seemingly infinite inefficiencies in the hardware. I wouldn’t reccommend this board to someone I hated given the amount of issues I’ve had with it. I hate this board, and as a result I will NOT purchase an ASUS product again so long as I live!
Chantal –
We still need to install 64GB more DDR4 RAM, another 2TB M2 SSD, and install our ASUS 1200w Thor Platinum PSU; but it’s doing the trick as is already.
We require a PC that practically has super-powers to run this system. We run a Dante AVoIP PCIe card for audio editing while running Dante Virtual Soundcard on the same PC simultaneously for stereo reference. Our rig includes running anywhere from 1 to 5 DAWs simultaneously as 1 large workstation along with a mixture of analog and digital processing with several controllers.
It’s greatest weakness is the lack of PCIe slots but the Thunderbolt4 ports allow us to use a PCIe expansion chassis and still have another TB4 available.
With the PCIe slots expanded, there are no negatives. I suppose maybe it would look prettier with RGB lights built into the mobo but we were only concerned with performance and features and this board gets an A+ in both categories.
This is NOT a gaming mobo. If that’s what you’re looking for, I’m sure you can find a better fit for a much lower price.
This mobo is ideal for professional audio and video editing.
Our specs include AMD 5950X 16-Core CPU and 128GB CL16 Kingston Fury DDR4 RAM.
We don’t use a big expensive GPU because its unnecessary and the additional heat and noise would be a big problem for what we do.
It has 2 NICs, Bluetooth, and WiFi. They all work great and our system requires them. We use one for data connections of the Dante network and the other for hardware controls.
We researched every mobo on the market and concluded that, aside from building a $10k Threadripper PC, this was the absolute best mobo for professional audio work.
We weren’t wrong.
Ben –
I bought this primarily for the dual TB4 ports and 10Gb ethernet. Those features on an X570 ATX board make this unique, so if that’s what you need, there’s not much else out there.
There’s just a couple trade-offs made to get those features.
1. Fewer regular USB 3 gen1/gen2 ports on the rear IO than other boards in this price range. There’s *enough* for a normal user, but something to keep in mind.
2. Only three PCIe slots. And since two of those are wired to the CPU, if you’re running a GPU at x16, then you only have one additional 4.0 x 4 slot.
3. One of the three m.2 slots shares lanes with the top two PCIe slots. So again if you want a GPU running at full speed, you effectively only have two m.2s available.
4. No optical audio out.
I expect that these omissions had to be made in order to prioritize IO bandwidth for the TB ports. So it’s understandable, but just some things to keep in mind if you were hoping to max out the expansion capabilities.
Another irritant is that one of the TB4 ports can only output to a display if fed from a discrete GPU via the DP in, while the other can only output from an iGPU. So either way while you have dual TB4, do not expect to run quad displays* or anything unless you get both an G series processor and have a discrete GPU. While this is obviously a solution that ensures no matter what GPU solution you have you can connect to a TB display, I really would’ve liked to have seen dual inputs so that R9 users could make full use of them.
*I have not tested if having both supports dual displays off each.
Finally there’s no post-code display nor onboard power button. I get that this board is catering more towards the build it once and never touch it again crowd, but I find those invaluable when diagnosing issues. That said everything booted on the first try, and there are the debug LEDs that can assist.
One other good thing is that the Wi-Fi antenna is a much improved design from Asus’s old shark fins. The overall look is the same, but now 1) has a strong magnetic base (I have no idea why they didn’t do this for a time, as their old Z97 boards had this figured out) and 2) can be vertical, horizontal, or 45 degrees to the surface it’s mounted on. Much appreciated for those of us that will be using ethernet the vast majority of the time, but like having the Wi-Fi readily available as backup.
I have not put the IO through it’s full paces so far, but will update if I have any problems.
Tim –
Received a scratched pcb near the poorly soldered joints of the SATA 5_6. It was clearly worked on. That means ASUS is refurbishing these boards and reselling as New. My friend also purchased this, and he felt it was refurbished. Both were sealed from ASUS and not open boxed.
ASUS is preinstalling malware on Windows computers. You can disable it in bios, but it is open for future security issues especially rootkits.
The only thing I can think of sticking with ASUS, is if you are into overclocking.
Overall, ASUS was my go to board 20 years ago. 10 years ago switched to Asrock for budgetary reasons and the board is still going. After pruchasing this, I am sticking with Asrock. Not feature rich, and less prone it future security issues. ASUS overall has been concentrating more on form than function. They aren’t even giving the consumers the option to choose anymore. They are just throwing subpar garbage, because of their reputation. I lost all trust in ASUS products. Spending $450 on a board with poor quality is absurd. Never again. Sticking with ASrock. I am not sure how the other manufacturers, but MSI back in the 2000’s had lot of DOAs and Gigabyte had exploding capacitors, and thats why I never returned to them.
If you are going to leave you settings with stock config. Go with Asrock. I replaced this with the Taichi Asrock version. Couldn’t be happier. Build quality was way better. Bios was is great if you leave it at stock settings and not into tweaking. I am holding onto this board because as a spare board which I probably will never need and may eventually sell it.