OPTANE.

NO. there is no benefit it. In fact DO NOT USE IT is you are using a NMVIE for a boot drive. the octane (16 or 32) is only use when user use a mechanical drier as a boot drive. UNLESS you want the big guns. from intel

I will send you the screen shots of mine tomorrow since i am not home today.

but botton line is: use port 1 if you want the cpu to manage it. , that will give a space sata port back. go to bios and select PCIE instead of sata. then restart. install windows 10. install drivers etc and the driver for the samsung and magician. go back to BIOS and CRM off and restart then bios and select ONLY UEFI so legacy is gone. In my case give me 5C more temps on the cpu since is managing all data, but give me 1 sata back in my board. since por 2 take 2 sata away. and i needed that sata.

On your board. latest bios. new chipset and IME driver (last one ony) that is it. sound card is nice to have. and aura in the end. make the boot drive from MS direct NO weird ****ti website. use MS direct download.