Tuesday I received an 3900X, Asus Trix X570, and 32GB (2x16) of memory all purchased from newegg. First I would like to warn anyone buying this motherboard, have a philips jewelers screw driver handy, and an old usb keyboard. Before putting the motherboard in the case, remove the shroud that partially covers the M2 slots (jewelers screw driver required) and install your drives. I on the other hand put the motherboard in first (how was I to know) and great calamity ensued. Anyways, after getting that disaster fixed I decided to put my memory from the old build in also. So now it's time to power up, would not post, so pulled old memory and it fired up. Now I am hitting the delete key to get into the BIOS, this is not working (WTF) and I find myself booting into windows. Seems the keyboard (Corsair) will work in any OS, but not before its loaded, did not have this problem on old motherboard. So dig out old keyboard and try again, perfectly good example of why not to throw old hardware away. Get into the BIOS and set memory to XMP, speed and timing automagicly update. At this point I decide to shutdown and try with the extra memory again. Start back up and I have 48 GB all running at the speed and timing of the 32 GB kit. Booted into windows as ran benchmarks and encoded a 30 minute video just to make sure all was well, and then booted into Linux. Once in Linux I compiled LLVM and a lot of the project that are connected to it. Very impressed so far, if anything changes I will reply to this post.
A few days later I find that the corsair keyboard has an undocumented BIOS mode. Only problem is it seems you must be in an OS to enable it. If I try to enable outside of an OS it seems to go into some sort of demo mode. So enable in OS and then reboot.
A few days later I find that the corsair keyboard has an undocumented BIOS mode. Only problem is it seems you must be in an OS to enable it. If I try to enable outside of an OS it seems to go into some sort of demo mode. So enable in OS and then reboot.
