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Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero

WHEN IT COMES TO A sus, many tech journalists—ourselves included—have often jokingly stated that its product lines suffer from what’s known as the “Asus tax”—they’re perhaps a bit more expensive than they ought to be, and much like Nvidia, with its generational jumps in tech, these products regularly see price increases year-on-year that are hard to justify.

Traditionally the ROG Hero line

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