I just bought Asus TUF Gaming X570-Pro from Amazon! 😊
I am a bit confused and scared about this mobo's BIOS.
According to this guy on YouTube, his Asus TUF Gaming X570-Pro was compatible with 5800X straight out of the box without the need to update BIOS.
However,
another guy (on Amazon) wrote that his mobo came with BIOS 1407 which will not boot Ryzen 5000 and he had to buy a second hand Ryzen 2600 in order to flash the BIOS.
I recently purchased this motherboard, ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO wi-fi 6, to replace my 2013 Sabertooth 990fx / FX8350 system and it came with the 1407 BIOS. I slapped in the 5800X and had no issues booting up for the first time but did get a beep code indicating there was no VGA installed. It must check the CPU for an i-GPU first but after it restarted itself it detected the discrete GPU and allowed me to load into the BIOS. This same thing happened when I updated the BIOS to the latest release so it is quirk of the board.
I agree that there needs to be more USB 2 headers on this board. My case has USB 2.0 and I have add in USB 3.0 /ssd bay for the faster speeds as needed and all my USB headers were filled before I got to plug in my USB for the AIO. This is a pain for sure.
I use 4 HDD's and 2 SSD's that all need Sata ports so having 8 ports was a plus for upgrading to the newer tech. I will get an M.2 drive eventually but was not forced into it when shelling out for Ram, CPU, Motherboard and PSU. Todays prices are ridiculous but this boards price was manageable for its features and 5000 series compatible.
I do have a few issues in the BIOS though, For some reason Quick boot will not enable, it does say it's enabled but I get a POST beep every time I boot so that just doesn't work for me for what ever reason. Setting it to diabled has no affect on boot times. Next is the manual configuration of the RAM timings, For some reason there is an extra setting after the CAS timing so it reads as 16-19-19-19-39 instead of the standard 16-19-19-39 timings that have been used for many years now. While this was very confusing and took a few hours to realize I goofed on setting the timings I enabled the D.O.C.P and it turned in to a set it and forget it deal like the article mentioned.
I too like the fact that you can shut off the Wi-Fi in the BIOS as I hard line my gaming PC's, a cool little feature. BIOS updating is made easy by using Asus' Easy Flash.
I do miss my sound card as it was a PCI interface but the onboard sound is great compared to what the old Asus Sabertooth I had. I just wish the software had a graphic equalizer with it to tweak the sound a bit to my liking.
The fan on the south bridge is a bit worrisome as it is not an easy replacement but I have found that many times its at 0 rpms. Watching video's it runs around 325-350 rpm's. While gaming it usually sits around 1200-1350 rpm's. I have a fan on the bottom of the case that blows upwards across the south bridge which I'm sure helps keep it cooler.