Seeking help with Big Bang XPower board, please.

Hi Guys,
I'm a noob to upgrading computers and am hoping somebody can help me. I have never overclocked anything before or changed BIOS settings. However I just installed the Big Bang XPower Board, into my old Dell XPS 730x and added an Intel 980X chip running Win 7 64bit. I have read about the BIOS settings on the MSI site but I am still not sure about some things. I have listed my hardware below and am trying to figure out how to get the best performance out of my system. I would like to know what other BIOS settings to change to get the most out of my 980X CPU and RAM without completely stressing my system. I want to utilize this board and the components but I also don’t want it running at max non stop... so somewhere in the middle. I’m in the USA if that matters as well. If anybody could guide me as to what I what I should change in the BIOS for this id really appreciate it. Here is what my system consists of:
5 HARD DRIVES:
(1) SATA II WD 3gb Hard Drive @ 1.5TB
(2) OCZ SATA II SSD drives @120GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227543
(2) Hitachi 6gb SATA III drives @2TB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145473
3 DVD/CD/BLUERAY DRIVES:
1 SATA DVD DRIVE
1 SATA BlueRay Drive
1 SATA CD Drive
(So 8 SATA Devices Total)
24GIGs of this ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145321
1 NVida Geforce GTX 470
1 Soundblaster X-Fi Titanum Card
I have all my hard drives on the SATA II ports as suggested by a forum member. I have my Blurray on a SATA II port as well, and my other two disk drives on the SATA III ports.
I do have the system up and running, its just not that fast, and I expected with this setup for it to be BLAZING. Hence why Im looking to you guys. I currently have the BIOS set to “failsafe” mode, b/c if I don’t when I turn the system on, it runs for 5 seconds, then reboots, the comes back on and loads windows... that seems odd… yet it doesn’t do it in failsafe mode or if the Genie button is pushed.
I also don’t want a RAID setup, just each drive acting alone. Yet, the Maxell software still runs before Windows starts. Is there a way to stop that since Im not using raid?
Any info, advice, or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Best!

Hi guys,
Ok, so Im not really making any progress with this. I havent done anything with the memory yet b/c I trying to solve the booting issue first. Here is what I have tried, but nothing worked:
Set BIOS to optimal settings which causes booting issue (turns on, then instantly turns off, then boots win 7 successfully). I shut down and restarted 2 times, but both time I still had the booting issues.
I disabled EuP 2013, and still had the booting issues.
I disabled EuP 2013 and Spread Spectrum, but still had the booting issues.
So I reloaded failsafe settings and it was fine.
STARTING OVER I loaded optimal settings again, and disabled everything in the CPU Features menu except for Hyperthreading, Execute Bit Support and Intel Virtualization Technology. This also did not solve the booting issues.
I added the disabling of EuP 2013 to the above, and still had the booting issues.
Then I added the disabling of the Spread Spectrum to the above, but still had the booting issues.
So now I am back to the failsafe settings. Could this be a hardware problem, or not since it works in failsafe mode.
I also wanted to point out I only added they extra 3 stick of memory a week after I started having this problem. So while there are 6 sticks of memory in now, I have had this booting issue since the first time I booted the new mobo, and for a week of only have 3 memory sticks.
So any idea what I should do now? It just seems odd that failsafe works, and turning OC Genie on to max it out works, but nothing in the middle.
I look forward to hearing back from you guys.
Best,
moxy
P.s. Dilburt you asked about the power supply im using previosuly. Heres the info i got: "The Dell 1000 watt power suplly 12 volt rails are rated at 18 amps each. That's why only 2 x 6 pin PCIE power connectors vs the 8 pin PCIE connectors."

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Anytime a setting has been changed, driver update reboots etc., it is not uncommon to also experience the double boot behavior. This is normal as the settings are being applied & restarting itself again.
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