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Pch temperature improvement

Hey,finally a motherboard that runs fine after having only problems on rve, the maximus viii extreme, perfect temps for vrm 30-40 degrees c, perfect cpu temp @ 20 in idle and 30-35 degrees c in stress of course after setting vcore to adaptive and eve...

ASUS Maximus VIII Formula Suddenly Dead

ASUS Maximus VIII Formula, Intel i7-6700kPowered off last night as usual. Tried to power on this morning, nothing. No motherboard lights at all. Power cycling PSU results in motherboard lights briefly coming on then dimming out, they stay on longer t...

U.2 to M.2 storage - how to get it to work.

Hi, just putting this up. I was going to upgrade my whole machine but with prices what they are....This is for all you Impact VIII people out there.I wanted to replace my secondary as I'm happy with my SATA SSD to boot from and I keep my office sof...

Which M.2 ssd

I have a Z170-P D3 which currently has a 256GB 2.5" ssd and want to upgrade to a 2TB m.2 2280. I know that it has Pcie 3.0 and the book says I have 1 x M.2 Socket 3 with M Key for both sata and pcie mode. Most of the drives I see listed are pcie 3....

USB Type C Port not working

HelloTitle says itI have a Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard. Options activated in BIOS, drivers up to date, but my Type C port at the back of the PC doesnt' work. Cannot charge devices nor use storage disks. The 3.1 Type A (the red one located on the si...

PCIe SATA adapter not showing up

I've run out of SATA ports and got me one of those PCIe two port adapters but BIOS and Win10 can't see the drive attached to it.What am I missing?This is the card I bought...https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VRNMB5XThank you for any and all help!

Type C USB port question

At the rear of this Mobo there is a type C USB jack. Is it turned by default? I am wondering because I plugged in a new Logitech Stream camera and it does not work. I get an error that says the camera is not detected or being used by another applicat...

Only working USB port is 3.1

For some reason the only USB port that works on my Gene viii is the 3.1(red) port. I've tried updating drivers, bios, chipset. Swapped out different components. Is this a known thing? Is there a fix for it?i5 6500Corsair LPX 16gbEVGA 2080ti HybridEVG...

Required bios settings for Samsung 970 evo Nvme M.2 SSD

Hi, my current os win7 is installed on to a SATA SSD, i am planning to migrate by cloning a disk image and recovering it to the 970 Evo, i have read some conflicting information Samsung driver installation PDF suggests that raid mode in the pch shou...

RAMCACHE 3.01.00 update message

RAMCache software have recently been the source of audio output issues, because the software was creating high latency levels within the computer system. This was sometimes leading to popping and cracking noise in the audio output.The latest version ...

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