Quote Originally Posted by joshua7 View Post
Looking forward to the test.
It took me awhile to get things set up, because at first, I experienced random reboots and instability.

I went back, disconnected all power/data cables and all cards, and removed/reseated the RAM. I also clipped the ends of two of my PSU's SATA connectors and replaced them with right-angle ones, and went with right-angle SATA data cables to remove kinks.

The system is now up and very stable, with a RAID 1 mirror for my boot drive, and a third 1TB drive for media storage, running the F5 BIOS. Since I had a Tuniq Tower, I also had to dremel the K8 "nipples" off the sides of the mounting clip so that it would fit well. I have only just reloaded the OS, and will be restoring data in the next 48 hours. I'm running at stock settings for now until I have everything set up just the way I want it; at that point, I'll consider doing a minor overclock to go up to 1333 FSB. Stock performance of the board is quite good, though.