Alright, it is up and running. It has one, huge, annoying bug so far and that is with the bios. Anytime I change a settings, and I mean any setting and reboot, it will not post. It does the usual Intel power up and down and back up, this I am used to. But, it never reposts. It is fairly easy to solve, I just hard power down for about 10 seconds and restart it and it posts, settings saved and all. Hopefully this can be addressed in a future bios update.

Second is the Areca ARC-1210 controller. It does work in the second pci-express X16 slot. But...only at 1X. It will not operate and 8x or even 4x. I put it in the upper 4x slot and all is well. I have 2 HD3850 512meg video cards arriving tomorrow (just have to try crossfire!), so the 4x slot won't bother me, considering it ran like that in my P35 mobo anyways.

More to come...