Recent content by RobertF

As far as downgrading asus boards there is a hack thank goodness... http://smarttechtips.blogspot.ca/2012/08/how-to-donwngrade-asus-bios.html. It may still not work but the z9pe and P9X79 definitely support the memory model that the phi's require to run. Hopefully they got the bugs out of that...

Does the Z9PE have the upgrade bios without a CPU from usb stick feature or will I have to find a cheap x79 chip to boot with as I flip BIOS version? Not brave, foolish. I already have the cpus in hand so it is worth a shot. If I have to sell them and shop for later stepping then I will. I...

Thread resurrection... I have picked up a couple of 2.3GHz Intel Xeon 8-core QA8E ES (LGA2011) without doing enough research. My first go was a dual lga2011 motherboard from a thinkstation d30... (not a good idea). I am now looking at either the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS or the Asus P9X79 WS. I have...