the biggest problem i see here is :

a bios update would not even help everyone, as the stock mainboard out of the box won't work for people that don't got old ddr2 laying around.(like me)

so what should they do now ? buy damn 667 ram ? buy cl5 ram ? hope it works ?

i really don't know.

i was happy, i found a cheap board, that clocks well and that's available now. now i have to start the search from new.

really annoyed about this