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Need Help With Connecting Fans

Hey everyone,I am building a new PC, and I need help please,on which would be the best header to connect the fans to on the mother board. This PC will be water cooled with hard line tubing. I have 2 360mm radiators w/ 3 fans on each rad. The 7th. fan...

Ram settings

Having problems setting up the Memory DDR5 6400 mhz on a Maximus Z690 Hero, with a I9-129000k processor, EVGA 3060 video card. Memory settings refuse to allow the 6400mhz, always gets knocked back to 4800mhz. The bios are now set on automatic setting...

ASUS Z690 formula (PD_12V_PWR) connector?

Hi, Im building my new ASUS z690 formula rig and i have come across this 6pin connector "PD-12V_PWR". I don't know if this actually connects from to board to the GPU or does it connect from the board to the ATX? What are your thoughts? Tony

ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME & Fan Ext board II

So I've been running this combo now for two weeks and I'm finding FanXpert 4 frustrating at best. 1) the fan spin up and spin down settings reset at each reboot and at a less frequency randomly. Why is this? How do prevent it - write protec...

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Asus z690 hero bios issues with my gpu

Hi guys I have a 12 900 K in an Asus z690 hero boardI have an issue When I update the bios to anything past 811 it kills the performance of my gpuI’m currently running bios 811My gpu is an Asus Strix 3090 ocI’ve tried every bios after 811, but all of...

Booting from device connected to Thunderbolt port?

Looking into picking up a board with Thunderbolt ports. Maybe the Z690-i.If I connect a Thunderbolt dock to one of those ports then a bootable Win11 install drive or Windows OTG drive to the dock, will the motherboard be able to boot from it?

Z690 Maximus Hero and GSkill Trident Z5 6000 CL 36

I recently installed 4 sticks of G.Skill Trident Z5 6000 CL36 (6000U3636E16GX2) into my Z690 Maximus Hero board. The RAM runs fine and the system is stable at 4800 using no XMP settings, but when I try to switch to either XMP I or II, the system fail...