Just having a read and if I flash my BIOS I can have a new processor. Two questions:
1) Do i need to flash to ver F6 then F7 before F8? Or just straight to F8?
2) What is the max processor (talking Athlon) speed for this board using BIOS ver 8?

Gigabyte GA-71XE4 is the board

This is not my side of computing and is a little bit much for me!