Question 1

dose it come with backing plate?

Accepted Answer

Actually, mine didn't even come with the mounting hardware for the CPU.  I ended up using an old one and modified the structure to fit this motherboard. I was saddened to see that, but I feel like these have a chance of the hardware being removed as they were refurbs.

Question 2

I want to put an Athlon 860k in it. But do these ship with the latest version of the bios that will support the cpu?

Accepted Answer

After spending about 2 hours with asus we couldnt get the board to work they stated that it would need the updated bios to be flashed which was funny because you have to have a diff cpu than the 860k, long story short newegg refunded and sent a shipping lable to send them the board back

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