Asus TPM-SPI Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

My Asus TUF X570 wasnt letting me use the AMD fTMP on my 5800X3D to complete Windows 11 validation. Researched and found that Asus boards dont come with this module either. Well, at least not with this generation. Install was as simple as finding the pins on the board and dropping it in. Still needed to flash to the latest BIOS to enable. Still wouldnt let me us fTPM, but this chip worked like a charm. Windows Updater finally showed my board as ready for Win11. Still dont want it, but at least my board is finally complete for when Im forced to switch over.

perfect fire for the asus motherboard. make sure the pins are correct for your board!!!!

Fits Perfect on my ASUS Z490 Motherboard, ( next to the battery ) and it's a must have for installing Windows 11-Thankfully it did not cost me much.

This and maybe an I-7 core @ 4.7GHz I should be able to upgrade to Windows 11. Don’t need to buy a whole new PC

Can't ask for much more. it just works. i plugged it into my ROG strix motherboard and enabled it in the bios and have never looked back.

This one was supposed to be the "cats meow" however, even checking the description and using the Model Number, Serial number, 14-1 pin out, it was not configured correctly so could not use it. Besides, that sucker was so small, but it was the pinout that was the problem.Check with Asus and make sure the pinouts are correct. Mine is 14 header pins and 1 pin blocked. Is yours

Finally flipped a coin on buying to see if this had the patched 7.2.2.0 firmware, and luckily it did.So at least there's some new stock floating around out there with up-to-date firmware, unfortunately I don't think there's any real way of knowing what you're gonna actually get, a newer patched chip or an old one that's been sitting in a warehouse for ages.ASUS's customer support was completely useless, weeks of back and forth emails where it wasn't even clear they understood what the TPM was or that they were selling an ASUS branded one to begin with ended with no answer to my question of if the stock sold on their site had updated firmware and/or if they provided a way for the user to update their firmware... and I wasn't even asking them about the amazon listing, I was asking them about the one on their OWN OFFICIAL WEB STORE.No answer... well, a few weeks later news broke about ASUS frying Ryzen 7000 X3D processors, so I guess I did in a sense get an answer that ASUS is a ramshackle corporation with departments that don't communicate, employees that know nothing about their products or how to reach out to people who do, and a support structure that simply doesn't care about making firmware patches for their more obscure devices. Or whether their devices are gonna destroy themselves.If you're unfortunate enough to own an ASUS board and paranoid about the fTPM microstutters on Ryzen chips enough to want to try a discrete TPM... well, you might get an updated one here on amazon, for less than the ASUS store will charge in shipping, with probably a better return policy, and it's not like ASUS will lift a finger to support you either way.Installation was as simple as plugging the module into my ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI, changing the bios settings to use the discrete TPM, and setting up my PIN/reauthorizing windows.

The piece is very small, and the manual for the ASUS motherboard (X570 STRIX in my case) shows a diagram where it needs to be plugged in to some pin headers, just adjacent to the CPU and graphics card slot.The only issue is that the spot is going to be below the graphics card (in my case a 2080ti).So needing to pull the graphics card out, and then finding a way to press this small board down on a header that is somewhat underneath the CPU cooler.... you can't get your hand/fingers in there.My solution seemed to work well - get some poster tack / blue tack, and a pencil with a squared off eraser (or a dowel or a pen with a flat end). Apply the tack to the squared of end of the pencil, then stick the top side to that tack. This puts the tiny board on the end of a stick held on by the tack. Now you can carefully maneuver it down and over the pin header under the CPU cooler. Press it down carefully (be sure to align the keyed pin correctly), and it slides on easily enough. Twist the pencil and the blue tack off and bobs your uncle.Reinstall graphic card, put the rest of the tower back together, boot up and enter the BIOS/UEFI and go to the security/advanced section to make sure the TPM is enabled and selected (and not the CPU based software TPM). Booting into Windows and checking by running TMP.msc to verify its up and found.. and it was. Good to go.Now the only thing standing between going to Windows 11 is deciding if I want to enable UEFI in place of BIOS, with the recovery boot nightmare that can cause... so for now I'm staying BIOS and Windows 10.