I may have stumbled upon an undocumented feature in the Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme. I had a hardware-encrypted SSD which wasn’t working on one motherboard, and I attached it to the Asus one hoping for better luck. On boot, I got a blue prompt w...

Well, I did a quick and dirty random 4k read test on my SSDs using the AIDA64 Extreme software that came with my Crosshair X670E Extreme. It looks like there is a very good reason not to use the PCIe 4.0 connectivity if you can help it. That means th...

The official specs says that CROSSHAIR X670E EXTREME supports ECC memory and so does Ryzen 9 7950X. It took a while to find a vendor with DDR5 ECC UDIMMs in stock, but I finally got the Kingston Server Premier DDR5 4800MT/s ECC UDIMMs last week and t...