dane007 said:
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Just to note your particular board had a major ram support update with version 1004 of the bios, the bios is now at version 1203, download the 1203 bios and put it on a fat32 formatted memory stick, you can download it here : http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99A/HelpDesk_Download/
When you first boot up your newly built pc, enter the bios and leave it running for a few minutes without doing anything, just to be sure that it is running stable, then pop in the usb stick, navigate to the bios flasher and update the bios from the usb stick, reboot and then continue with your pc setup.
This is because sometimes if a pc is unstable it will lockup, even in the bios, and you do not want a lockup to happen half way through flashing a bios - modern motherboards like yours have protection against bad flashes, and will restore from a backup bios, but it never hurts to be cautious, good habbits learned and all that.
NOTE: after flashing your bios, the next bootup may seem unusually long, this isn't a problem with the pc or a sign of a bad flash, this is normal, its just the PC verifying a good flash, and updating its backup bios to match the new one - DO NOT turn off or interrupt the pc during its boot process directly after a flash!
Always best to configure everything AFTER a bios update rather than before, should mean that if in future you want to add additional ram, you shouldnt have any issues.
Oh and a last thing, your chosen CPU has been supported by the bios since version 0216, which was the initial release version, so you will not have any issues with cpu compatibility at all :)
Also, when installing your ram, do as the QVL document i linked to in an earlier post suggests:
Install the modules into slots A1/B1/C1/D1 for better compatibility.
