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1.0 out of 5 starsBuyer beware chipset driver instability
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017
I want to start by saying that I have owned dozens of ASUS products over the years and have never had such a bad experience as I did with this motherboard.
First, x299 chipset is super new and drivers are very unstable and constantly updating. Asus's website makes downloading the most current drivers a tedious and cumbersome process. I installed a dual m.2 raid with 2 960 Evo's in Raid 0. Finding the driver to do this install with windows was a hours long search as Asus does not provide or has really hidden the driver I had to source it out from Intel directly. After finding the driver and installing windows, I was unable to install any chipset drivers until windows was fully upgraded post anniversary as my purchased copy of windows was pre-anniversary. I was even unable to see other attached SATA drives due to the complete incompatibility of x299 chipset drivers with pre anniversary windows 10.
This includes no working internet drivers wifi and Lan drivers would not work. I installed a 3rd party wifi adapter and updated windows. Asus website listed a highly recommended bios update. Installing the updated bios destroyed the RAID as it made major changes to the m.2 onboard. I then had to completely repeat the process. Slightly faster since I knew what to do.
Since installing again, I have had numerous system lockups, a complete freeze of windows while copying files. The file copy process completely freezes and windows is totally frozen. Apparently, the Raid is not stable. I independently verified that the Samsung 960s where 100% stable in another system, so this is an ASUS issue.
I am not working with Amazon to return this motherboard for a different Manf. Asus seems to have rushed production and I am now burned from buying another ASUS product for some time.
