[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

On 12/5/2020 at 3:00 PM, davidm71_2 said:

Wonder if Asus will ever update bios to support SAM or Clever Access Memory feature to allow contiguous access to video card memory as one block. Was just reading about it on techpowerup. Averaged a 5-10 percent performance boost. Should be possible in every Intel processor since Haswell. We got to have this.

Some Z370 news popped up today.
 

[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

On 2/16/2021 at 11:05 AM, AlexRay said:

Ok, thanks. I've used M9A.CAP for 2301 version, but looks like creative.rom works too.

>But you must have shorted 2 pins
Or, you can flash unlocked bios.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0ydhw2ruesg7y6q/ROG-MAXIMUS-IX-APEX-ASUS-2301-D6-Unlock.7z/file

Are you sure about this? I assumed this bios had no lock for future flashing in place, but still needed to bypass the lock for getting it running first. (shorting or grub)

I could be wrong so would love to get some clarification on this, might revive my Apex IX and grab a 9900K from somewhere.

Edit
Gave it a try and doesn't seem to be working on an unmodified board. Flashback doesn't start. The disk drive blinks for a second then stops.

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