Quote Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX View Post
Anyone have a problem where the bios takes awhile to post? All of a sudden its just taking awhile to post, it sits at the bar from load and waits awhile to show the Intel screen. Any ideas?
Mine does that too. I think it started to do it after I disabled watchdog.

As far as the heatsink retention mechanism orientation goes on the 9700, I did flip it around to vertical and my temps are 1C lower, although maybe the ambient temp drifted a little bit.

PS, I don't recommend going vertical with the retention bracket on the 9700, it's a serious pain to install, I had to take the power supply out to do it.