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Ah, okay. Mine is also free, but like you mentioned. All 4 of mine are covered in the sheath all the way to the PSU. Also to add.. All terminals seem to be pretty sturdy and no bent or out of place pins on the card itself.

Oh no, plenty of times I have been wrong. And I have to suck it up, except and acknowledge it. 😂 When you guys say free...I thought you meant free as in the wire was pulled from the housing and just hanging there like in @Papusan posted picture? That's not what you guys mean?

Update to an earlier post... Looks like Nvidia was the one to replace the card and not CableMod. level 1 c9chapsui ·15 days ago Hey man, same exact thing happened to me last weekend, I posted it here and the nvidia sub reddit with some pictures. Oddly enough I was also playing jedi survivor... Wonder if your adapter melted the same pins as mine did. Nvidia moved forward with my RMA no issues, so I hope yours gets resolved as well.

Definitely, not suppose to come that way! Are you able to see the sense pin connecters in the tip? And if so, do they move?

Might explain you being locked at 300W. The sense cable not fully making contact and only registering 300W max. (speculations of course) That is 100% true. I think they need to use people educated in the English language when writing information in English. As translations do not 100% translate to English. (Again, more speculations on my part)

Nothing wrong with the cable, one just needs to make sure it's plugged in. (Could it be better built? Sure, why not.) May take a bit more effort on the users part, but it is what it is. (Although it sure points out why no manufacture wants fully unlocked controls on a cpu/gpu/memory or motherboard. People will blame them for unlocking it and not putting in safe guards.🤦‍♂️) Off Topic: Ergo The Soc drama unfolding now. Thankfully that is 100% their fault, but imagine they said look. We unlocked this voltage but do not go above 1.3V or you will burn up your board. Then all the know it all yahoos will come out the woodworks and start voicing their opinions as fact stating why would they leave that unlocked. My CPU burnt up. I don't know what happen. All I was doing was gaming. My board burnt up. And so on and so forth.🤦‍♂️ On topic: GPU manufactures owned up to that nonsense after public out cry. And since the new "rash" of GPU burns seems to be caused by Cablemods adapter might suggest that there is something there that needs to be looked into. And at least one user stated that it bent their pins, but didn't burn up their card. Bending pins are an issue since it should be virtually impossible for the user to do that in this case. Which is something they apparently know about and were trying to fix. Along with at the time they stated 50K sold and 7 failures with 5 being "user error" and still waiting on the other 2. I was checking and this guy below never reported back with what Nvidia said so not sure of the out come there. He might be GPU number 8. This guy had his burn up and this was what happen on his RMA. this was this month. You have to skip past all the nonsense other people tend to always bring up having nothing to do with the current op's post. Could be Asus trying to save face, who knows, but the fact remains. The burnt up GPU was in fact replaced.

Before people start jumping the gun it seems that the guy may have miss spoke before getting all the facts first...

Actually I was hoping you already tried that, that's why I did not make mention of it. And as mentioned some where in this tread...these controllers some times have to be plugged in or wired certain ways or plugged in certain headers for them to even work correctly.

For sure way is to remove the cpu and all cards and ram. Reset Cmos and then power on. If you get 00 on the debug screen then it may be your cpu(But put cpu back and see if it will now power on), if nothing shows up then the board has a blown part. As for swapping parts after a shut down. Asus is known for locking in all parts to certain memory spaces, but when you change those parts then the board starts acting funny until it can readdress the part swap. This is all provided that you didn't do anything like a bios up or down grade ec flash or me change.

Not sure if this has been posted, but Steve hits on quite a few things in his rant.🙂

I actually haven't had real time to sit and play with it. I just kind of boot it and run some random stuff while working on other projects. Really, I didn't see you post those pictures of the stability using Ant777 or I must have missed it. I have yet to do any sort of tuning what so ever. Like now for instance. I just set this and ran it to see if it was stable after a clear cmos. Sorry for the crazy resolution as I have a GTS250 in there making sure it works. I set 38/48/48/125/1.45vdimm/everything else auto with trefi at 32767/auto. I like to see what it is actually doing vs being a gazillion hours stable, but runs about as fast as a 1986 first year Hyundai. I want to be 1 hour stable and run like a Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut.🤣 Edit: Tried to run 1.4vdimm and no dice. errors after 4 seconds. Also, loving the Apex over the Unify-X so far.

Crossed the 140000 MB threshold.

First run trying 8200....

I would need to check, but i may still have a heatsink cut out sitting in my heat sink bin.

Not sure I would like the alternative though...Gaining the ability to charge you for CID and or voiding all future warranties after that point going forward on that particular board. At least MSI did pay for the shipping the last few times the board went back to them. I do not think Asus ever did that for me. I can't really remember now.

Seems you have to have a server product for that.... https://www.asus.com/us/support/article/828/

Means they had some boards in California plus I ordered over night shipping. And I ordered this morning. Plenty of time to catch the first FedEx truck for pickup.🙂

Says my new to me board should be here tomorrow.

And our state sure as heck ain't one of them.

Yes sir. I happen to be looking at different Apex boards when I got the email and clicked and ordered.😂

We use to not have to pay sales tax when ordering out of state, but that has long since changed. And Newegg has a hub in California as well. So we always paid tax unless tax exempt, which I discontinued with them a long time ago. And when I was talking about warranty it was more of the Miicrocenter warranty than the manufactures warranty. I would rather have my money back to buy something else than an out of date motherboard fixed in two years time. We have the standard 3 years warranty on most motherboards. My tax rate is 7.775% where I live and others pay as high as 10.750% in California.

Had I got it from Microcenter I would have walked out of store at 699.99 plus price of warranty. Subtotal $699.99 Shipping FedEx Next business day $23.98 Tax $61.25 CA STATE TAX (6%) $42.00 CA COUNTY TAX (0.25%) $1.75 CA CITY TAX (1%) $7.00 CA SPECIAL TAX (0.5%) $3.50 CA SPECIAL TAX (1%) $7.00 Total $785.22 ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX 90MB1CF0-M0AAY0 $699.99 1 $699.99 View OrderYou can track your order status by order numberView now Back to Home Also the MSRP of the board is 699.99, so not sure where 608 is coming from?

Asus has them at 699.99 in stock.

Ah, okay. so not stability stable, but light load stable. got it.

Okay, because I was thinking along the lines of memory running at 8K stable. not your cpu.