Hey guys quick update here:

the T3RS here has some pretty good abilities from what I have seen so far. ONE BIG problem though: NONE of the ram straps work whatsoever on release BIOS. the only ram strap that works above 1333 is AUTO lol. You might say "but isn't auto one of the selectable straps?" well yes and no, it appears to be the same as 333/1333 strap however, if you have a working prime stable setup with auto ram strap and you change it to manual 333/1333 strap you get the dreaded C1 . Even the working auto strap is very finicky and has limited me to 425-428FSB depending on latencies, at 429 it wont work and I have tried jumping around above that number as CAS 10 and an x7 multi with no luck whatsoever

Tomorrow I am going to try the beta bios and we will see if they have managed to make a DDR3 bios with strats that actually WORK!

for only 425 FSB and CR2 this board handles itself quite nicely (PL7), need to bring up the copy somehow