yeah, did that and it's working thanks to the rufus app via windows xp on parallels on the mac. It's the only boot usb method that's worked, after trying almost ten other ways and spending many hours process of eliminating.
haha, how i've missed pc

seriously though, can't wait to get up and running properly on this new beast. I was editing in photoshop earlier on my 2011 mac and it was unbearably slow. I don't think the 3900x is going to suffer to much