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    first 16GB DDR3 UDIMM & SO-DIMM modules

    Well I'm not a BIOS Engineer but it's not hard to change. http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/58195-why-do-z97-boards-max-out-8gb-per-stick-2.html#post485617 Testing would seem to indicate that modification is not enough, at least with IVB DT. There seems to be some incompatibility with the IMC...
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    ASUS Sabertooth X79 vs ASRock Z97 Extreme6

    Isn't that just a BIOS limitation? For instance BIOS for Z77 Pro3 has a bug for column size. Fix the bug and the BIOS will happily post even with 32GB modules with memory controller giving correct values. Well these are smaller modules with the SPD changed to mimic bigger ones, don't have any...
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    SSD or HDD as my new primary system drive?

    BIOS Ultra Fast Boot will work fine with W7 if setup properly.
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    Running a program that requires admin rights at startup (Coretemp)

    Most of these type of programs (coretemp, realtemp, cpu-z etc) need admin rights to load the driver. If you install the driver and remove the admin manifest from the executable so you're not asked for admin rights then they can be run from userland without any other special requirements...
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    Secure Boot Questions

    I would think that they would sign with the same cert as for W8. A couple of links you might be interested in. http://uefidk.intel.com/messages/219 http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/
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    Secure Boot Questions

    Secure boot keys are part of the BIOS. If you use secure boot you might consider replacing them with your own keys. Here's what the PK cert which comes on my Z77 says. Still, since I have found secure boot can be turned off from within Windows itself it seems it is a pretty useless...
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    Secure Boot With Dual Boot

    What feature of secure boot do you like exactly? BIOS may provide secure boot options for different devices but usually default is all on or all off except maybe for firmware. If you have secure boot on and W8 then W8.1 should work the same way.
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    Intel Rapid Storage Technology version (BIOS vs. OS)

    Depends on your setup and what you want. For me RST driver 11.2 offers best performance, the only down side is incompatibility with running UEFI Sata driver, which for now basically means slightly slower BIOS initialization time from having to use a legacy OROM, i.e. CSM cannot be disabled...
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    Intel RAID 0 - one drive dropped from array when messing with UEFI storage

    If your disk order remains the same you could try backing up the MBR (1st sector of the first disk of the array). As a safety precaution backup the first sector on the second disk as well. delete the array recreate the array with the same disks, volume size and stripe restore the first sector...
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    closing crashed/locked up applications

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896683.aspx
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    Linux and Windows 8 don't like each other

    If using secure-boot then take ownership of your keys and sign your own stuff. Better still IMO if BIOS has an option to disable it then do just that.
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    Booted into DOS then bad command or file name

    lol
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    SSD & Prefetch

    Here's an example of prefetch using 2x SSD RAID0 and a simple 16MB executable that randomly jumps from one 4k page to another. Disk operation was monitored by Sysinternals DiskMon software. First of all with prefetch disabled. Windows uses the classic page faulting technique to load...
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    Windows 7 or 8

    What did you have in mind exactly? Tried this in the early days with W8 Developer Preview and to me it just doesn't feel right.
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    SSD & Prefetch

    How much is "all that", prefetch files generally are not that big.
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