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nCubed · 05-15-2016

I am no longer receiving email notifications when someone replies to a thread I'm subscribed to.Things I've verified:Subscription status for the threads I'm interested in.Subscription statii are all set to instant.Spam folder is not gobbling up the m...

nCubed · 05-15-2016

I built my ROG Maximus VIII Hero system back in September of 2015 (specs should be up to date in my profile) with 16 GB of G.SKILL Ram with the intention of updating to 32 GB once the price came down.The price has come down and I ordered another 16 G...

nCubed · 05-06-2016

SystemMother Board: Asus Maximus VIII Hero (Bios 1701)SSD: Corsair Neutron XT SSDWin 7 x64 / Win 10 x64IssueAfter months of running without issue, my Corsair Neutron XT SSD stopped being recognized by my Asus Maximus VIII Hero motherboard. The specif...

nCubed · 10-15-2015

Case: Fractal Define XL R2CPU Cooler: Fractal Kelvin S24Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus VIII HeroProcessor: Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core OC to 4.6 GHzMemory: 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series DDR4 SDRAM 3200 (PC4 25600)Graphics Card: ASUS GeFor...

nCubed · 05-15-2016

Nate152 wrote:If you're just gaming 16GB is plenty and you really don't need to upgrade.I may not have clearly described that I will spin up VMWare for software development. Sometimes 2, maybe 3 VM's at a time. 16 GB of Ram will get by, but I'd like ...

nCubed · 05-15-2016

As a follow-up. I purchased a new Samsung EVO and installed without any further issues. Using Atto Disk Benchmark v3.05, the Read/Write speeds of the Samsung EVO are just slightly slower than the Corsair Neutron XT, though in reality, imperceptible.A...

nCubed · 05-07-2016

Mugencow wrote:Hi Guys, you are not alone, me having the same issue, you could try to switch between power profile in AI Suite, the CPU usage will be dropped and returned to normal.Asus's response is damn slow, I don't know they will fix it or not, s...

nCubed · 05-06-2016

I chatted with Asus support and they insisted the SSD was defective (both SSD's). After further chatting, they suggested I disable SMART check in the BIOS... after disabling SMART check, no issues with starting/rebooting. I'll try another new SSD lat...

nCubed · 10-17-2015

From the Hero download page, did you install the Intel chipset driver? And then the Intel USB driver?

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