I comment to that on Intel AHCI drivers vs Microsoft's AHCI driver but that last AMD board I had which was an Phenom II made almost no difference between Microsoft's AHCI and AMD's AHCI drivers, in...

Microsoft's AHCI drivers work just fine.

I use DIPM for my NGFF M.2 SSD located beneath my motherboard, without DIPM I don't like the idle temps I was getting; will be getting a low-profile NGFF...