How to remove full size GPU from ASUS ROG RAMPAGE V EDITION 10?

[48547595]

you may think this is crazy, but is there any legit place that still sells this mb? has to be NEW!!!!
if yes, links.. but must have stock!! (fyi, the asus mb page links to office depot / walmart are out of stock.. and doubtful they get more.)

[davemon50]

You can get it through Amazon resellers and eBay sellers. But I haven't seen a new one in a long time, they don't manufacture it anymore. And they're all still expensive!

I love this board, if I had known how much I was going to love it, I would've bought two of them........just in case.


The reason for two 12V power plugs is just to get more power to the board for people who have lots of power hungry accessories and like to overclock. It's one of those things that could potentially hurt you if you don't plug in both and you have a lot of power demand, but will never hurt you if you just hook it up even if you don't need it. So my recommendation is to just hook up both power sources, fah-get abott it, and move on. Nowadays pretty much every video card has plenty of power source directly to it, so it doesn't affect the board requirements (PCIe slot requirements are fixed). So in my opinion it's mostly an overclocking concern. I don't know what CPU you have but TDP is 140 W for mine and I don't want to starve it.

[48547595]

cpu is also 140w. i decided to use both 8+4... working fine now...

moving on;
simple setup;

asus rampage v mb with intel x99 chipset
1 x samsung 960 pro nvme via m.2 port (no other drives)
windows 7 (yes, really) installed and working perfectly. fyi; used the gigabyte windows usb installation tool to create working win7 usb stick.

drive seems to perform at close-ish to expected/advertised values. (see below) drive is also using latest firmware. i know so because i booted off the samsung firmware iso and after it checks, reports as "being latest". crystal disk mark and other disk benchmark tools all report same-ish results, as expected, so drive not hindered in any significant way. (could maybe improve around 5-7%?) magician itselfs shows expected-ish results.






my only concern of sorts is that samsung's own magician isn't fully supporting it. see below. is it because it uses microsoft nvme drivers? but if yes, what can i do? i did get current latest samsung drivers, installed them, rebooted, but no change. it's as if they -the samsung drivers- did nothing. they are installed under "program files" and have an uninstall option under windows add/remove as normal, but aren't installed really.




additionally, i also tried to manually update drivers by going to device manager > hardware > drive > driver tab > update driver, then point to the correct place that holds the four needed files. they are; secnvme.cat, secnvme.inf, secnvme.sys & secnvmeF.sys. they are the same as the ones the installer installs anyway, with the last two being digitally signed by both samsung (sha1) and microsoft (sha256). i also tried to "old" right click the inf file and click install, only to get "the inf file you selected does not support this method of installation".




i suppose i can just carry on, but decided to maybe try and somehow switch to samsung drivers, so magician recognizes and starts supporting it's own damn drive before i start installing the other apps and start using windows properly. since this is early stage, i have not updated windows to the very latest, though not sure that would make any difference here. the drive is up and running just fine, seems to perform exactly how it's supposed to, just that the drive maker's own software isn't playing nice with it.

finally, the bios settings for booting are currently set to; auto for the CSM (both auto/enabled work, decided to leave on auto) and "other os" for the safe boot section.


ideas?

[48547595]

wake up asus team.....

virus got you all?

[xeromist]

wake up asus team.....

virus got you all?

This is a user discussion forum, so no ASUS support here. Just a space for us to chat with each other.

[48547595]

This is a user discussion forum, so no ASUS support here. Just a space for us to chat with each other.

no it is not. it's running off asus.com
so please don't patronzie me.
i see this nonsense claims made at zonealarm forums as another example. they too claim it's a "user" site but there too it's owned and operated by central point and running off official domains. if asus or whomever really wants to "fake" a site as "user" owned/made/operated, the very first thing (but not only) they should do is not run off official company domains. (and no, it has never been challenged, but that alone, to me, would be enough to disqualify any such claim, legally speaking. you can't host or allow a site to run off a company domain to then claim it's not "ours" or under our full control.)

for your reply to be accurate, it would go something like;"hi. this site is legally owned and operated by asus. they own the domain, rights, collect user data and sell it to third parties, all the usual stuff, but, they do not post here. they appoint mods to moderate and ban undesirables, and never post here as official employees to back their products, oh no. so you see, whilst this very site you are on DOES belong in all ways to asus, they shirk any "responsibility" by not ever posting here in an official capacity and claiming, falsely, that the site is some typical "fan" site."

finally, with your 7k+ posts, you could have said what you did, and try to help too. i did not (nor will i bother) check some of your 7k+ posts to see what they are, but just by sheer number i assume you're engaged here. do you not know a lot about asus products? you could not help at all with my above nvme issue?

yes, somewhat late reply, but that's cool. and i'm not "blasting" you either, just pointing out what is starting to piss me off about OFFICIAL websites that claim not to be so. (plus i came here yesterday to make a very interesting post, and am back here to check on it, and saw you replied and i missed it before, even though i set site to email me with any new replies.)

[xeromist]

no it is not. it's running off asus.com
so please don't patronzie me.
i see this nonsense claims made at zonealarm forums as another example. they too claim it's a "user" site but there too it's owned and operated by central point and running off official domains. if asus or whomever really wants to "fake" a site as "user" owned/made/operated, the very first thing (but not only) they should do is not run off official company domains. (and no, it has never been challenged, but that alone, to me, would be enough to disqualify any such claim, legally speaking. you can't host or allow a site to run off a company domain to then claim it's not "ours" or under our full control.)

for your reply to be accurate, it would go something like;"hi. this site is legally owned and operated by asus. they own the domain, rights, collect user data and sell it to third parties, all the usual stuff, but, they do not post here. they appoint mods to moderate and ban undesirables, and never post here as official employees to back their products, oh no. so you see, whilst this very site you are on DOES belong in all ways to asus, they shirk any "responsibility" by not ever posting here in an official capacity and claiming, falsely, that the site is some typical "fan" site."

finally, with your 7k+ posts, you could have said what you did, and try to help too. i did not (nor will i bother) check some of your 7k+ posts to see what they are, but just by sheer number i assume you're engaged here. do you not know a lot about asus products? you could not help at all with my above nvme issue?

yes, somewhat late reply, but that's cool. and i'm not "blasting" you either, just pointing out what is starting to piss me off about OFFICIAL websites that claim not to be so. (plus i came here yesterday to make a very interesting post, and am back here to check on it, and saw you replied and i missed it before, even though i set site to email me with any new replies.)

I never said it wasn't owned by ASUS. ASUS set this up years ago for customers to discuss products with each other and has never offered it as an official support channel. There are other channels such as phone & email that are fully staffed for that purpose. I frequently point this out because people feel they're being ignored due to a misunderstanding of this forum's purpose. There are a few ASUS employees and volunteer moderators (not employed or compensated by ASUS) who try to keep things under control but nowhere near the staffing that would be required to address every question. A couple of staff look into RMA issues but those RMAs start in one of the official support channels.

Regarding your questions, I do the same thing as davemon when I can't reach a clip so I had nothing to add. I haven't used Samsung Magician so I don't know what to tell you about that. I don't have an ASUS motherboard either so I try not to address parts-specific questions unless I think it's a general concern I've seen before.

Anyway, the point was just to help set expectations so you wouldn't be waiting for an official response that will likely never come due to the nature of this forum.