https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor
If I was a government intelligence agency I'd probably sell my soul to get access to these...
I get that they have legitimate use cases for corporations, but why are there virtually no consumer grade CPUs without that stuff ? Surely they would be less expensive and no one would miss the features on their home computers.
ROG is Asus.
Also I don't think I've ever had this issue with my previous, nor my current rog boards. I never use their drivers CD so maybe that helps