Honestly, I never had to disable Thunderbolt 3 for sleep and it works but I don’t have Platform Power Management active and no DSDT/SSDT. Unfortunately I have some different problem with sleep but I work already on a solution for it. My rig sometimes just wakes after hours... If you decide to go back to the Designare we should team up and just look for the problem and fix all of them.
You have sleep working on your designare, without any SSDT?
And with TB3 active?
Damned, I never got sleep/wake to work without lots of trouble.
That's the primary reason I started to look at another solution.
Do you have hotplug working with your designare?
Damn, 15C hotter ? Would be a big no go for me. It’s just my personal opinion, but If you are happy with it, that is what counts in the end of the day. Yes the Designare is build really good, never saw such incredible work before, not only in design also in functionality. The Metal Plate on the backside of the Designare is not only for design and to reinforce the Motherboard, it’s also like a big passive cooler in some kinda way.
Wow 30 Watt difference, I mean ok it’s not that big deal but strange why the Asrock and also Asus took that much more.
Oh, I'm not happy with the increased temperature. Not at all. But after 3 attempts at reapplying thermal paste I ran out.
I've put back the bios to default settings, so I don't overheat the CPU in the mean time.
Only the CPU in the Intel power gadget shows increase in wattage. Measured at the wall, the rig is pulling the same. I believe it's something not quite right with the Designare that shows such lower CPU power usage. I don't really believe a i9-7980xe could only use 13W, even at idle...
With the asus or asrock, it always hover between 30W and 40W.
No argument from me when it comes to the quality of the Designare, it's of much higher quality than both the Asus Deluxe and the ASROCK professional gaming, which are both the best motherboard of their respective brand.
Now, I may just go back to the Asus Prime, I've had enough messing with settings and SSDT. It's fun to play with, but after a whole, it gets boring and I have real work to do
Edit: I have the wifi/BY working in Windows, in the BIOS wifi was set to Auto, I switched that to Enabled, and voilà, wifi is now on in Windows...
So the board isn't faulty... Oh well...