Recent content by uplink777

That would be Apex my friend. Extreme is just meh, trust me. All looks and no performance. She lacks everywhere where she should exel.

Do You lnow how thin line is between receiving a hardware for review and not? Not everyone can buy stuff to review, so corners needs to be cut. When You're intelligent enough You can figure out the cut parts Yourself, or when You're not as smart as You, You work like me and buy everything and...

Yup, I'll be interested and thank You. I have. both Apex and Extreme so I'm intrigued.

For generations now DiMM.2/Z.2 capable motherboards with these modules are provided square rubber pads sticky on one side after peeling protection foil from them to support the other side of M.2 SSD in package. Theres even a square peinted on thr PCB in a place You're suppose to stick it. Ise 1...

Asus SW engineers are a band of incompetent people regarding software/firmware/BiOS/UEFi, ALAS, they're also one eyed king among the blind. Asus' SW is hrorible, but have You seen Gigabyte/Aorus, MSi, AsRock and other brands? I mean Holy Moses, they don't even start to compare...

You don't like the price tag, don't buy it. We're still in somewhat democracy as far as I recall. Some people buy Koenigsegg Agera R/S for 3,7 - 5 mil, other buy Škoda for 10k, not sure how the existence of this not really expensive motherboard [have You seen Extreme of Intel? Add 500e to the...

I'm honestly glad they stopped equipping these boards wirh that 2,5 gbps hunk of a turd that disconnected like 1000x a day. So that's some progress. Remember when Asus had to put 4 years old NiC inside Z790 Apex while Z690 Apex had current NiC? Now that was something. And TBT, I have Aquantia 10...

Yup, that's why I love DiMM.2/Z.2 modules, exactly because of that reason. Blowing right at the DiMM.2/Z.2 module. I feel ya

That's true. Not very elegant, but true. There are brand-less passive controller-less PCi-e M.2 adapters, both for single and up to 4 drives [up to 8 with controller and for PCi-e 5.0 with 8 PCi-e 4.0 drives each munching on 2 PCi-e lanes]. But the Apex and Extreme have this built in, only...

Posted it as a joke. I'm an old guy who could never afford high-end HW and now for the past decade I finally can. Purchased this stuff purely for good feels, I gave up on OC and stuff years ago. Now I just enjoy the design and potential under the hood. In my opinion high-end stuff lost meaning...

Still not sure which one to use and which one to sell...

No NPU, well, I have NPU on multiple Intel machines and I've yet to see one App that got a hold of this dedicated HW. Either stuff runs on dGPU or in Cloud, but hey, what do I know about this, right? Maybe in 2 - 3 years...but hey, in 2 - 3 years dedicated NPU is gonna be in AMD Desktop CPUs' too.

Sounds like Monarch and logo looks similar too, or looks like Dharma

Well...cwap :/

I have no gf, kids, nor social life...so there's that. I only have "this" :D