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I must say mine is working properly. Except some Bios Crash if I spend too much time in it, the mobo works perfectly. I've tried Wifi, Ethernet, Memory Ram and CPU OCing, Fan control (both PWM and Voltage control) and everything works fine.
Did not have any problem with a 2X8GB Kingston Hyper X Fury 2666Mhz. The Ram was at 2666Mhz clock right at the start. I have used bios 1.10/1.20 and 1.30 so far.
Thermolab LP53, Scythe Big Shuriken 2 Rev. B, Thermalright AXP100 or Zalmann CNPS8900 Quiet.
Every of these cooler will perform better than AR06 and Cryorig C7.
If the M.2 slot is occupied by an M.2 Sata III SSD, then port SATA3_0, SATA3_1 and the SATA function of SATA_EXP0 will be disabled. you'll have 4 Sata port remaining on the board.
If I remember well, Z170 chipset has some extra PCI lane so when using M.2 with an NVMe SSD, you'll not use any...
That's unimpressive. Being better than L9i by small margin is not that good. Cooltek LP53 performs way better and seems to be the better choice for the A4.
Good news Dondan about the reseller. Hope it will end well.
The new Silverstone PSU, this is a 700W PSU, not 600W. I am waiting for it as well.
As for the M8I, the scale seems off. Cryorig C7 is 97mm wide and respect Intel "Safe zone" so it should fit on any board as i think they have to...
No beep is normal. Like I said the UEFI disable beep by default. You have to enable it once you can reach the UEFI.
Can you tell us what did you connect to the Mobo ? Do you use a GPU ? Did you connect your video out on the GPU ?
Some people were able to fit a 60mm cooler like the Zalman CNPS8900 Quiet. But swapping the original fan on the Scythe Big Shuriken 2 for a 25mm thick one will not fit.
I tried to upgrade my bios to 1.30 but it did not work. The bios is still 1.20...
And I still have some random freeze when navigating in the bios. Otherwise the board works fine.