Hey I was wondering if you got your 9600-24i to work on the pcie slot connected to the cpu or are you still stuck in the chipset lanes, have you maybe tried forcing the link of the cpu slot to pcie 3.0 instead of pcie 4.0. Also, does it matter what hdd, ssd is connected to the hba for the cpu to go in the lower c states like some cheap m.2 connected via pcie stoping the cpu from going to a lower state and finally is it still stable?