Z77A-G43 and latest bios, stable bios or beta bios?

I`m about to update my BIOS, Currently using ver 2.3, for my Z77A-G43, as official latest release on MSI website 2.8 version seems a bit outdated looking at BIOS versions released in here, what BIOS should I go with? Or would official 2.8 be the safest? Perhaps I would not go to the latest beta, I don't need that updated. I'm still on version 2.3 so I really need an update cuz lot's of fixes has been done.
I have been thinking ver E7758IMS.296 - it's second latest..
I don't need much CPU OC possibilities, I like to run it at stock + turbo, for 1 core, no PLL, no enhanced turbo, or what would be a good stock + turbo settings? I mainly need turbo for core 1 (and perhaps 2) as the game I play most is a 1-core game (well someone has said it a 1.5-core game).
SO what BIOS update should I get?
I'm mainly looking to squeeze some extra from my DDR3 (Kingston (KHX1600C9D3K2/8Gx) 2x4gb)). I'm going to try 1866, 2000?, 2133 and 2400 would be really nice! And going to squeeze some extra from GPU as well (Asus HD 7850 2GB) too.
Mainly looking for answer to BIOS here... But would be nice if someone would comment other too
EDIT: CPU = i5 3570K

Yes, I know about the RAM voltage issue, and will lock it to 1.5v.
Btw, I finally got BIOS flashed to 2.9!! M-Flash didn't recognize my USB stick, dunno why, last time when I flashed to 2.3 it worked fine. It just gave me message "Please plug in USB media and press enter to try again" - I tested every USB port.
So I used method found in this PDF article at MSI website "How to make a bootable flash disk and to flash BIOS".
I was also about to use the forum flash tool, but I've been suspecting it, has it ever failed? Broken a bios chip?
Right at the beginning I should of found out that XMP gives too much dramV to mems, and tweak it myself. XMP was giving dramV 1.65!! Should the XMP profile ( s ) to be updated for Ivy? XMP set my rams to 9-9-9-27 (CR: 1T) @ 1600mhz + 1.65V!! So I tweaked myself 9-9-9-24 (CR: 1T) and it's running fine with safe dramV.
I'm gonna keep the rams that way, I'm too tired to OC them now.. But time for GPU!

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