Quote Originally Posted by spoolindsm127 View Post
Thanks for the reply Zoson. Yea I have seen screenshots also but can't figure out why my board won't run a X5679 I have. Maybe because it is an obscure CPU?

It keeps giving me a Bad Bios Checksum error. And then it continuously searches the removable media and cd-rom drives for what I suspect a Bios file for recovery. Don't know if it's a broken CPU or lack of Bios support.
It looks like X5679 is an i7 970. I would expect this CPU to work. It seems silly for me to ask this, but you cleared CMOS? Also, did you try 1401 bios?

Quote Originally Posted by Leeghoofd View Post
Maybe the daily OC could persuade some to jump the 2011 wagon...
I'm not expecting 2011 to do any better OC than 1155. Same architecture + more cores = more heat and more volts required for similar clockspeeds.

Quote Originally Posted by thobel View Post
Guys Its been awile I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the best bios is these days for the R3E I have been running some beta 0096 bios for awile now
I think the general consensus is 0003, or 1401 are the best now. 0003 is the 'memory' bios. if you have memory that doesn't behave nicely with the r3e, 0003 saves you. 1401 is the same as 1301, but with additional CPU support.