Haven't heard anything like that changing for z270 owners.
Are you sure the ASUS drivers are still being used? Windows has a tendency to update drivers behind your back. It's possible Windows has something it considers to be newer and is using that preferentially over the ones you installed.
Another thing I might try is temporarily disconnecting the data drives and bench the sys drive again. That way there is nothing else on the controller.
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