Zenith Extreme & X399-E

x399 Extreme Threadripper 1950x won't post with more than 16GB installed

x399 Extreme Threadripper 1950x won't post with more than 1 DIMM installed. Purchased 128GB of g.skill (f4-2933c16q2-128gfx) and all work in slot 1 solo but won't post if I try to install more than one (using the recommended slot order). Purchased t...

CPU upgrade... Threadripper should be called Hair ripper

First post, be gentle? Debated writing this at all because on one hand I view it as free tech support and thus reward for bad behavior. On the other, people should really be warned.First, to be clear I'm not an electrical engineer, nor do I follow t...

How Do I Know The Temps Are Accurate?

This is ryzen master and coretemp both reflect the same,I am wondering I been reading through threads here and people are compainling about wrong temps etc, well made me wonder how do I know if my temps are accurate or not?

Gather around I have a story to tell...

I should start with expressing my love of ASUS but i won't.... we all know their hardware is the shyt so i don't need to reiterate. I decided i deserved a great system. The perfect mix of Power and Functionality. And i hear of this thing called Threa...

Gaming Errors, Is is ThreadRipper Related

I am getting a lot of crashes when I play COD WWII. I have not played this game on a Intel based PC just my ThreadRipper. I will get random crashes back to the desktop (no error message), I will get Direct X errors, and I will also get a file unpac...

Can't Update Chipset

Just updated my BIOS to 0902 on my Asus Zenith Extreme. Saw there was a new version of the chipset driver 17.40, but received the following error trying to install it:"OS is booted onto the NvMe volume and upgrading the driver will make the drive un...

Raid 0

I dont know if this problem is with the windows kb4054022 fix or why its on my setup when i dont run intel but my benchmarks on read and write are worse than one drive. both samsung 960 pros.and befor the update the scores wern't that great just a...

Technical explaination of PCIE dipswitches?

Curious feature of this board are the dipswitches that supposedly disable individual PCIe slots. Does anyone know how exactly they do that? Is it the card boots but is thrown in some kind of sleep or does it physically remove power from the device?...

Nvme Raid, Win 1703, blue screen on installing driver

HiI’m putting together a build on a zenith extreme, 1950x, two Samsung 960 Pro in Raid 1, four Samsung 850 Pro in Raid 10. Bios version is 0801 (0804 does not show the option to enable nvme raid). I was able to configure the raid volumes and install ...

useplatformclock is enabled by AI Suite 3, and it kills performance

With my X399 Strix board, I notice after a complete OS reinstall (and reinstall of the Asus CD software) that the IOPS on my M.2 SSD were awful, nearly 75% less than the product's whitepapers have (960 EVO) It took me a bit of time, but I tracked dow...