Quote Originally Posted by Biker View Post
This is a very common issue with I7 / X58.

The CPU is not as tight a fit in the socket as it could be so there is a bit of movement possible and also there are an awful lot of pins to bend...

The bad initial seating might have screwed up the bios (it happened to me with this board a while back) and the only way to fix it was flashing to a different bios version and then flashing back to the version I wanted
I tried reflashing but still the LCD poster is bad bad bad so I turned the light off and removed it out of my face.

I'm still can't break the 208 Bclk mark....I finished testing 205 x 21 and now I'm testing 208 x 21, leaving every thing at auto, will optimize later.

I have 2 4870x2, I don't think they like to play with the PCIE clock, right?