After 2 weeks of a nightmare I have word from Asus that I bought a bad Mobo.
I am sending the Mobo back for a refund but will have to purchase a new Mobo.
I have a i7-7700K
Sending back (Asus Maximus IX Hero)
GTX 1070
Ballistix 64 LT Sport
I was able to get 10.12.6 installed on my Samsung M.2.
System was stable.
I also have a Samsung Evo 1TB and Seagate 7200 3TB drive.
I ran into the Thunderbolt issue so I bought the Asus THunderbolt3 PCIE and the Apple TB3 to Tb2 converter.
Unfortunately with the bad Mobo I was not able to get Windows running or drivers for TB3 updated.
All My USB ports kept freezing and unfreezing. Even with nothing plugged into MOBO and BIOS updated it still would lock out ports and I was unable to do anything. When I plug my M.2 back in and get into 10.12.6 USB ports would also restart computer and freeze ports.
So my question is what is my best bet for Mobo that will work with my drives, chip, graphics, TB3 PCIe and ram?
I want to make sure that I will be able to run my studio and chain of Apollo twin, Apollo 8 (TB chain).