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Maximus VIII Gene drivers

Hi,I have Maximus VIII Gene motherboard and was wondering what's the difference between Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility and Intel Management Engine Interface and do I need to install both or just install the latest version (ME_11.6.0.1032...

Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly - GPU running at x8 instead of x16

Greetings,I have an issue where the Motherboard seems to be locking my GPU (STRIX 1080GTX) out @ PCIEx8. Even though I have configured it in BIOS as Gen3 and disabled all active power saving modes - it still only runs at PCIEx8.I have read that there...

GTX 1080 SLI + M.2 samsung 950 Pro Bottlenck?

Hello,Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere. I have searched the net for a while and could not get a clear answer. Current PC specsMobo: Asus maximus VIII Hero AlphaCPU: 6700kGPU: Asus GTX 1080 A8G SSD: Samsung m.2 950 pro 500gbSSD2: Samsung 850...

VIII Hero and timings on Corsair DDR4-3200 CMU32GX4M2C3200C16

Hi everyone,I thought it might be best to start a new thread, coming out of this other one, but in short, I enabled XMP Profile in my Ezmode BIOS to get my Corsair DDR4 DIMMs up to their OC speed of 3200 Mhz-- two 16 Gb DIMMS (for a total of 32 Gb) i...

DRAM Frequency on VIII Hero

Hello,I have installed Corsair DDR4 RAMs 8x2 on my MB, and i can see on default setting on the BIOS showing 2133Mhz where its 3200Mhz? I tried to change it from the Extreme tweak to 3200 manually; but from the BIOS if i go to EZ-MODE (F7) i see the D...

Maximus VIII Hero Alpha Qfan/fan control not working properly

I've been experiencing all sorts of problems trying to get fan profiles to work in bios. Qfan tuning use to freeze the bios every time I ran it until I updated to 2202, now it only does it occasionally. As for the results, it sets the min fan cycle a...

asus maximus VIII Alpha Hero Qcode 40 Cold boot

Dear fellow gamersI have a question regarding my Hero VIII alpha motherboardThis gives a fresh start to direct code 40This should be after my idea A0Is here for a reason and there are several with this problem?SincerelyMarcel

Suit 3 overclock - MB code 04 - CPU dead!

Hello,I have new PC bought it 3 weeks back and was running fine. I was trying to make my CPU to go on 4.6ghz as I was on 4.5ghz. So I decide to use ASUS suit 3 in this case with the 5-way *optimization.PC required restart and it came back up normally...

MAXIMUS VIII GENE USB wonky in the last round or two of Windows 10 updates

Everything had been fine for several months until the last month or so I had an instance where after a reboot my USB webcam stopped functioning and I had a warning in Device Manager. I messed with it for awhile and couldn't resolve it. Figured maybe ...

Asus Maximus VIII Hero

Good afternoon. There was a problem with the Asus Maximus VIII Hero, namely:1. When it is inserted into 2 strips DDR4-2666Mhz Kingston Fury 8 Gb each, the system does not start up for some reason ... I tried different location brackets, updated bios ...

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