Well it's here. My new motherboard has arrived.

OK................. it's quite a downgrade and virtually an insignificantly average Mini ATX unit and it's an older model and packs much leas features than my ill fated ASUS P8Z68V-PRO motherboard (I will miss the overclocking though "sigh") but what's import and its that it is compatible with my faith i7 2600K processor and RAM (which i will be forced to downgrade from 20GB to only 12GB)

Time to rebuild my system tomorrow and B9TRIBECA is back in business. ;)