I use an Alphacool Eisbär Aurora HPE l on the board for my 13700KF. However, I have strapped three Alpenföne wingboost 3 140mm fans on it as the original fans are already extremely loud
Last week I had a similar problem. It took a long time to get the mouse pointer on the screen. Before the problem occurred, I did a BIOS update for the aforementioned mainboard. The solution was that I cleaned up the autostart in Windows.
NVMe runs over PCIe and does not limit the SATA bus in any way. The only limitation on the board is when you install a SATA SSD in the M.2_4 slot - then ONE of the 6 SATA ports is disabled, namely SATA6G_2.
Sure. The second card in the lowest slot simply runs with PCIe3.0x4. But you also have onboard graphics (HDMI+DP) that you can use in parallel with a dedicated graphics card - as long as you install a CPU with iGPU - i.e. not an F model. What are your plans? Connect 8 monitors or separate streaming/encoding? Or what is the point?
Moin.
According to QVL, the RAM already fits. First of all: The board can reboot up to 4 times to get used to the new settings. Otherwise, I suggest the following troubleshooting:
- BIOS reset or set to default, then test XMP.
- Update BIOS
- Clear CMOS
- Test only with 1 RAM in A1, or test both RAMs separately.
- Swap RAM in A1 with B1
- Plug RAM into A2 and B2
- After loading XMP settings, lower clock manually (5600 to 5400) or increase CL (if you have 36, e.g. to 38 or 40).
- Increase voltage a little
- Don't use XMP and optimise clock and timings manually
- Get other RAM / live with it
- In general, test the RAM individually (without XMP) with Memtest86+. Then you can be sure that board/CPU(MemController)/RAM are 100% OK.
That's all I can think of right now. I would run through it in the following order.
I have already installed the board several times and have had no problems so far, neither with Corsair nor Kingston RAM.
Good luck.