Quote Originally Posted by JohnZS View Post
Glad to see you got the microcode sorted in the end.
You may find that slightly less vcore is required with the new microcode as apparently GTL improvements for QX9650 C0 was one of the fixes. I found this
Anyway with regards to the MSR issues I know that there are some people who believe that errors are expected.
Well I have done this test today on a DELL at work.

Both pass with flying colours.
If Dell can do this, why can't ASUS?
John
Because they don't want to. You should buy a new ASUS motherboard and maybe* than they are going to fix some BIOS issues for you.


* There's no guarantee that they are going to fix them and there's no guarantee that you ever going to see a BIOS with out issues.


@SoLoR

Did you build this R3 from scratch?

I mean did you also replace the Option ROM again in your last R3 build because I see a major improvement to mount my HDD in Ubuntu. With R2 it took a few seconds before the HDD was mounted.