May 13, 201115 yr I've had zero problems so far, with advice from you guys. The only issue I had before hand, was when turning the power on, it would turn on and off twice before booting, once I upped my voltage to 1.30 and set the PLL to AUTO, it boots immediately when I turn the power on, and I've had ZERO BSODs, CTDs, etc. I've not messed with my RAM voltage, I turned the speed up to 1600 and set everything else to auto, my numbers for the RAM are 9-9-9-24. Jeff Commercial | Instrument | Multi-Engine Land AMD 5600X, RTX3070, 32MB RAM, 2TB SSD
May 13, 201115 yr It's all Intel sata 2 ports. So, you do lose 4 ports - 4 of the 6 Intel ports on the Asus Deluxe.But you also have 2 Marvell 6GB ports so you have 4 good ports and 4 3GB ports that MAY someday go bad.Jim
May 16, 201115 yr well, I haven't yet RMA'd the mobo .... I'm not convinced that my issue is related to the Intel SATA defect. Right now I believe the issue may be cable related. We'll see. ROG Maximus X Apex Z370 -- 8086 @ 5.3 / NB 5.0 -- GSkill @ 4133 c17-17-32~Cr1 1.42v -- EVGA 1080Ti 6393 -- ROG PG279Q 1440P 150hz -- Corsair H100i V2 --Samsung EVO 850(s) -- Windows7 Pro 64 --Corsair 750X Ken C
May 19, 201115 yr Well, all's been good since I re-arranged my SATA cables. Eventlog has been clean. ROG Maximus X Apex Z370 -- 8086 @ 5.3 / NB 5.0 -- GSkill @ 4133 c17-17-32~Cr1 1.42v -- EVGA 1080Ti 6393 -- ROG PG279Q 1440P 150hz -- Corsair H100i V2 --Samsung EVO 850(s) -- Windows7 Pro 64 --Corsair 750X Ken C
May 20, 201115 yr To shed a lil light on what my "SATA" problem was MolexI was doing some reading on these connectors; seems pretty clear to me, now, that we shouldn't be using these connectors for anything other than fans. -Yes, I'm guilty of poor cable management. :-)One other note: I dual boot -I'm still in luv with Xp- and never experienced any drive issues with XP on this rig. Seems the reason is XP doesn't monitor the SATA power line for voltage irregularities. Win7 not only monitors current but will actually block an offending device (BSOD) when it senses a volt issue. I never got the BSOD in Win7, but I did get the disappearing DVD drive and a solid-on HDD case led activity indicator. well, I haven't yet RMA'd the mobo .... I'm not convinced that my issue is related to the Intel SATA defect. Right now I believe the issue may be cable related. We'll see. ROG Maximus X Apex Z370 -- 8086 @ 5.3 / NB 5.0 -- GSkill @ 4133 c17-17-32~Cr1 1.42v -- EVGA 1080Ti 6393 -- ROG PG279Q 1440P 150hz -- Corsair H100i V2 --Samsung EVO 850(s) -- Windows7 Pro 64 --Corsair 750X Ken C
May 20, 201115 yr No problem with my ports yet. Six drives but only two use the 3Gb ports. Bought a PCI SATA card for the sum of £8 ready for when failure occurs. Much easier than dismantling the machine etc. Regards Howard H D Isaacs
May 20, 201115 yr Yeah, I'm going to keep my B2. I have two drives (including the optical) on the SATA 3 ports. If push comes to shove I could move'em to the Marvell ports, the optical drive is fully functional on it. ROG Maximus X Apex Z370 -- 8086 @ 5.3 / NB 5.0 -- GSkill @ 4133 c17-17-32~Cr1 1.42v -- EVGA 1080Ti 6393 -- ROG PG279Q 1440P 150hz -- Corsair H100i V2 --Samsung EVO 850(s) -- Windows7 Pro 64 --Corsair 750X Ken C
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