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You might wanna add that to your other post, just in case someone does not see the one above this one and think it’s a virus

Good call, thanks.

Yea, I get that, I'm just putting off switching to 10 as late as possible. I personally despise the direction Windows is going. If they would stop all the tracking they do on you, that'd be one thing. Besides, there's been plenty of problems when they release updates from bricking PC's to deleting your data, etc. You can't control Windows 10, it controls you. I've taken Windows 9 that is supposed to block a lot of the tracking, and also installed third party software that is supposed to block that garbage but Microsoft seems to weasel their way back into the system.
 
It's been ages since I have setup a dual boot system, is that still possible with Windows 10? If so, I might give that a shot, to utilize Win10 for games with Ray Tracing and RTX support, and Win7 as a daily driver.

Thanks for that added information. I saw there were about only 5 available on Amazon, so I went ahead and picked it up. Hopefully my current setup will work with it, but dont see a problem though. I do like how the ports and power are on the side instead of the front with my current desk setup, not sure how I'd feel about it with a standard setup though. Anyway, thank you for your help. I am assuming that the module design wont hinder my purposes out of the box, I'm really hoping I dont need some modular kit to get it to how I want. Maybe in the future, I will look into liquid cooling, but seems it's on par with air cooling at the moment, of course, depending on specific hardware choices.

This sounds like a MB issue. I have the older Gaming 3 board, but when i clean install the system, depending on specifics on how i installed software and drivers, it would boot in 15 seconds or 15 minutes. The biggest item that affects it seems to be the Killer network drivers or software. If it were a problem with the drive, it would not have installed. As far as the SSD software not recognizing, Windows could be reporting it as an HDD instead so the software probably wouldnt see it. You could also check the UEFI settings and verify the drive mode ie legacy, AHCI, SATA, etc. These should be set to AHCI to get the full benefit. Of course you need to make sure you set the registry to AHCI mode and then change UEFI setting otherwise you will BSoD.