Quote Originally Posted by Swanie View Post
Got my mobo and chip. At this stage still installing and updating Win 8. Used the OC profile in bios and running at 4200 mhz. Will play more as time goes on. using a Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler
You should be able to manually OC considerably higher than 4200 MHz. when you get around to tuning your system.

I have not found any performance advantage to BIOS V1.70/1.80/1.90 in Win 7 but I do know that Asrock indicates that 1.90 is required for Win 8. BIOS V1.90 also does away with the stupid John Fatality face in BIOS graphics and boot, etc. and is much better IMO.

The silver arrow should work well. I've used a lot of Thermalright HSFs over the years and they are top quality IME.