I just checked the website and all the Windows 10 64bit/32bit drivers are still there but in Windows 7 it only shows the BIOS. Windows 7 was a great OS but honestly have no reason to want to use it anymore. I'm pretty happy with Windows 10. But I have used it since preview so very synced up with it now.

I took the plunge last night and ordered this Apex board so I hope there is nothing weird going on with support of it. I got tired of waiting for the Extreme and it seems the Apex has most of the features I liked from my RE5 Extreme anyway along with the streamlined memory traces. Ordered the below along with a new Samsung 32inch Freesync 2 monitor. I already have 2 Fury X cards and right now I don't even know if its worth upgrading those. Not sure I am impressed with the RX Vega 64, though if I could get the liquid cooled one for the actual suggested $699 retail price I might go down to 1 card instead of crossfire which is a pain at times.


ASUS ROG RAMPAGE VI APEX LGA 2066 Intel X299 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X 10-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2066 140W BX80673I97900X Desktop Processor
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3866 (PC4 30900) Desktop Memory Model F4-3866C18Q-32GTZR

Also windows 8.1 is not one of the choices. I think that is because Microsoft only supports Windows 10 with the 2066-socket CPUs.

When looking to fill in Win7-8 drivers or looking for updates, try checking the Windows 10 list. Download and open the zip. Look at file names or look in the 'setup.ini' to see what OSs it will install into. That worked for me to update MemTweakIt last week.

I came across one installation issue that is under discussion on HWBOT, so I had a clue. The Catzilla benchmark throws errors after it is installed on a X299 - won't accept its serial number. The 'fix' for now is to install on another motherboard. It's convenient that the Z270 works with the same drivers as the Z299 and the DIMM.2 is interchangeable between M9A and R6A. I stuck the DIMM.2 with SSD into the M9A, installed Catzilla, ran it to check, moved the DIMM.2 back to the R6A and it worked.

How do I know if I'm going to get the Apex board with the new VRM cooling or the old one? Or was the old only sent out to the reviewers and the new one is the one actually getting shipped to consumers? Sorry if its a silly question was just reading up on all this stuff when i was trying to decide on which ROG board to buy. Ordered mine off Newegg yesterday so should get it hopefully by Wednesday.

jab383, while setting up drives for benching I tried installing Catzilla and got that error, thanks for the info
The only driver I seen that was exclusive to Win 7 is Bluetooth, all other drivers are Win 7 - 10

I believe the new heatsink will be on any board sold retail

Hello Moloch
This Motherboard only support Windows10 64bit
Thank you

Hello

This is a non-issue. The ASUS EZ Installer for Win 7 is available in the utilities section of the Win10 drivers. This is the only driver/utility required for installing Win7. The listed Win10 drivers are also Win7 compatible as well as the necessary drivers being on the disk included with the motherboard. Thread topic solved and thread closed.