Afternoon all this might be worth a minute of your time incase you have similar specs and problems I encountered etc...
Like many I took the early adoption plunge and been very disappointed with this Generation of board, having upgraded from the previous gen board -- ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-F. Note: All NVME M.2/SSD/Gfx transposed over. (Note: New board manual says it supported 128gGB DDR5 up to 6400mhz Mem, small print check website for compatibility, disappointed big name like Corsair mem 5600 not on the Website list)
New system i9-12900K, ROG STRIX Z690-E Gaming WiFi, with Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 5600 DDR5 32GB (2x16GB), New Corsair H150i Elite LCD. Transposed gear - Zotac Gaming RTX GeForce 3090 Trinity, 2x Samsun 980 Pro PCIE 4 M2 plus some older gen M.2 and SSD/HDD. Vanilla Win11 Build
New board came with 0709 BIOS and after putting all together like many initial booting didn't seem to go smoothly seeing multiple boot cycles before managing to start to load the OS. Defaulted Bios settings removing any usual tweaks I do. Managed to get stable boots to load OS (No memory XMP profiles loaded so sat at 4800Mhz). After several days fafing with poor loading times etc and getting random reboots and not able to get XMP running, I flashed to 0803, this mostly sorted my problems loading. Boot times were down to 22secs into Win11 no random resets and managed to get XMP 1 running memory at 5600mhz but was having other issues below:
Issue I had then was i was seeing poor gaming FPS in Warzone, at the plane screen before drop it would drop to 15FPS - WTF but this sometimes would clear after a reboot but then come back next time.
Some troubleshooting later looking at GPU-z I noticed that the PCIE speed before render test would be x1.1 then start render test it would go to x4 as expected but the Bus interface speed was always stuck at x1 4.0 and not the expected x8/x16 4.0 (Yes I know if the top M.2 interface is connected then the GPU would be set to x8).
After disconnecting all devices I found that when one of the SAMSUNG 980 Pro NVME drives occupied M2.1 then this was somehow causing the GFX to sometimes stick at x1 instead of x8/x16. Reconfigured system and moved drives off the first M.2 slot and everything was all stable, this makes the first slot a complete waste of space in my system. I was also getting my Deathadder Ellite randomly freeze for a min or more before sounding like it was being disconnected then reconnected. I have bought new VR VARJO Headset and the mouse freezing seems to be happening when this is connected, still trying to find solution to this USB shared resources issues etc.
So now I installed BIOS 1003 and although the info doesn't really give much info in the specifics on what its improved I was hoping newer memory modules were being tested and added to the list as well as other issues. I can say my system seems more stable, Boot times are good FPS in games (Warzone from the 15FPS above is now hitting 189-220 during the same sequence).
II have seen on these forums there's a newer Beta Bios and would be interested on what's been addressed and peoples thoughts
If this gives some hope to those also struggling then worth the 15 mins to input...
Jim