So I'm still on 0906 on my Maximus IX Hero purchased late May. My post history has the problems I've experienced with getting my Trident DDR4-3600 RAM to work properly. It's advertised as 15-15-15-35 but I've only been able to get it to work at slower timings at higher speeds (up to 3800-3900 IIRC). Right now it's at 3600 at 15-16-16-36, and I've decided to live with it.
However, I have this strange issue that during some graphically intense applications, particularly playing videos, I get stutters/hiccups. Every 30-60 seconds it pauses like it's about to BSOD, but doesn't BSOD. This happens during gaming much more rarely so I've been able to live with it.
Keeping Google Chrome open in the background completely alleviates the issue. Which is really weird.
The computer will BSOD if I accidentally open like 30 videos in VLC as I've done once or twice when trying to move them around. It's also BSOD once or twice over the past few months when I've been running multiple demanding videos (2k-4k resolution) while doing intensive disk operations on my slow storage HD.
It's never crashed during a game and runs games along with Spotify/Chrome all at once like normal.
I think it's a problem with the motherboard's memory timings still.
I think 1009 is still a risky proposition considering my system is still mostly stable even at a 5.1 GHz overclock (downclocks to 5.0 at pretty good voltage/temps when it hits over 80 C since to go from 5.0 to 5.1 requires a jump in voltage).
Taking off CPU overclock entirely did nothing for the weird sound/video hiccup thing.
My system did pass memory test at its current settings (See post history). I don't have the time to start all the testing/trial and error stuff again, just going to keep an eye out for future updates that potentially fix the ignored XMP issue, which might be worth investigating.
Never buying an Asus motherboard again. The boards might be nice but whoever does the BIOS for these things should lose their job. I'd never survive at my job if I displayed that level of incompetence and apathy.
