Saturn7 wrote:
Also when installing windows DO NOT install AI Suite.
paulmarc wrote:
What's wrong with it?
Haven't installed it yet, but now you're warning us...
Saturn7 wrote:
ASUS AI Enables HPET and that really screws up windows.
You will get stuttering in games and generally slow the system down by 5 to 10%.
IIRC a version of Ai Suite was released that doesn't enable HPET. But as it is something I don't use I can't say it is problematic or not with that version.
@erefer
I'd say I've had a smooth ride with ZE. I've had the board since launch. I used originally F4-3200C14D-16GTZ (2x8GB), I reached ~3333MHz stable at the time with tweaking. Later changed to F4-3200C14Q-32GVK (4x8GB), as UEFI had progressed higher than 3200MHz seemed easier to attain. Max reached was 3466MHz. Perhaps I had got more used to using board, dunno. Both ram kits IIRC are not on QVL, but as they are single sided/rank Samsung B die, which Ryzen/Threadripper favours I've had a good experience with them.
I use WC and this board has been great to allow water loop temp as source for fans/pump. Only CPU_FAN, CPU_OPT and W_PUMP+ header do not allow a differing temperature source. All of the other headers and add on board allows differing source as well as multiple sources. I have experienced the corruption of PWM on this board, but only 3-4 times in many months and hours of usage. Some of these occasions I forced the issue by using multiple apps to access monitoring. As long as I do not do that all is well. My rig can be up continuously for 24hrs+ under heavy load. Another tip is if a situation of multiple apps for monitoring occurs I do a repost, this always mean I will not encounter the PWM corruption.
I use RGB set to static red, I then uninstalled AURA. I believe as it has a profile for RGB based on temperature it will access SuperIO chip. So if you run AURA and say another app that accesses SuperIO chip (ie monitoring tool) you could have PWM issues.
Onboard WiFi has been great. Board even after having had for many months makes me go WOW every time I look at it. I had originally a GTX 1080 and then changed to RX VEGA64, no noted issues. I have 2 SATA SSDs and 2 SATA HDDs connected as well, soon adding a NVMe. I use 4 of the rear IO USBs and have case twin 3.0 and twin 2.0 USB connected to mobo. These get used again without issue.
I throw things like P95, Y-Cruncher, RealBench, HCI Memtest, f@h and Bionic at rig for lengthy runs when change UEFI/settings and been sound. All in all a solid board for me.
