Doing a server upgrade, whs2011, I bought the Extreme3 thinking I might be using that board, but now I might swap it out with the client PC that is using the Extreme4 so that I could have the extra two Sata ports in the server.
This board is brand new, just arrived a week ago from newegg, did an out of box boot with an i7-3770, Samsung 830 128 GB SSD and 8 GB of Gskill sniper 1866 ram. I was amazed that it took a cloned drive of my server os that is currently running on an AMD apu and effortlessly updated hardware drivers and boots to whs2011 in about 10 seconds. This board arrived with BIOS version 1.10, this BIOS is not listed on ASRocks website. They show 1.0, 1.2-1.5. I'm curious why this BIOS isn't listed on their website and why a board that has been in production for so long has and older BIOS. I like the BIOS, it allows me to OC that non k processor to 4.2GHz and leave everything else on auto. It also doesn't have that gawdy 555 boot-up screen.
I'm the type of person that usually wants to stay up to date on the BIOS, but I'm hesitant to change since I see no way to backup the existing BIOS and if I don't like a newer BIOS, I can't go back to what I've got.
Would this i7-3770 ivy bridge processor OC'd to 4.2GHz perform better than my i7-2600K OC'd to 4.4GHz?
This board is brand new, just arrived a week ago from newegg, did an out of box boot with an i7-3770, Samsung 830 128 GB SSD and 8 GB of Gskill sniper 1866 ram. I was amazed that it took a cloned drive of my server os that is currently running on an AMD apu and effortlessly updated hardware drivers and boots to whs2011 in about 10 seconds. This board arrived with BIOS version 1.10, this BIOS is not listed on ASRocks website. They show 1.0, 1.2-1.5. I'm curious why this BIOS isn't listed on their website and why a board that has been in production for so long has and older BIOS. I like the BIOS, it allows me to OC that non k processor to 4.2GHz and leave everything else on auto. It also doesn't have that gawdy 555 boot-up screen.
I'm the type of person that usually wants to stay up to date on the BIOS, but I'm hesitant to change since I see no way to backup the existing BIOS and if I don't like a newer BIOS, I can't go back to what I've got.
Would this i7-3770 ivy bridge processor OC'd to 4.2GHz perform better than my i7-2600K OC'd to 4.4GHz?
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