What are you using to measure frame times? Is it something obvious that you can see while gaming? The reason I ask is because I recently got a X Hero/8700K/960 Pro NVME build and it would randomly pause the frame during a game and stutter the sound...
I wonder if there are shared sensors of some sort. For instance, the VRM sensor is disabled if you have something plugged in at a certain spot, you know like having an NVME disables Sata ports. Just a thought.
Did you happen to have the CMU16GX4M2C3000C15R Corsair kit? We may have the same CPU/Mobo/Ram combo. I'm wondering because I have had random reboots after a cold boot at XMP and instability when trying to overclock slightly.
There is definitely a sensor on the non-Wifi Max X hero. When I first installed HWiNFO64 (v5.60-3280) it asked if I wanted to enable an embedded controller because of compatibility reasons with other monitoring software. I clicked yes. Under ASUS ...