OK. Been testing for the past 5 hours. This is TRULY a nice board without a doubt. I have my lame-oh 9950 in it and it will actually boot the blasted thing at 3.2 (x16). Neither the Asus M3A79-T nor the godforsaken Gigabyte 790GP-DS4H would do that. My 9950 sucks and has spastic cores on 3 and 4.
I've had very little problems testing it actually. It behaves the same every boot, unlike that which we do not speak (the Gigabyte ds4h, henceforth, the devil board). My Asus M3A78-T also behaves nicely as well (as does the awesome Asus 79-T).
Several things have already impressed me.
1) Hybrid Crossfire works, unlike the devil board.
2) ACC works, unlike the devil board.
3) The board boots the same every time, unlike the devil board
4) It has typos in the BIOS, like our friends at DFI, its charming
5) It will boot at 3.2Ghz (16x@1.45v) over and over again with my lame 9950
6) It is a clean design, simple, but has all the goodies
7) It is not the devil board
8) It is not slow, like the devil board
9) Jetway is a small company, and they still seem to be able to fix the BIOS...AND tell us what they did, unlike the devil board
10) The network adapter seems to always work, unlike the devil board
11) I need serious help
For those that are interested. Total kit is Jetway HA07 Ultra, 9950 BE (140Watt), $9 cheapo coolmax power supply, Asus radeon 3450 in Hybrid Crossfire, 2 x 80GB seagate SATA1 drives in RAID 1, Thermalright K8 cooler (way too small, but cost 8 bucks at micro center on closeout), OCZ 2x1GB DDR2 1066 memory (ganged). If it survives the night on Everest torture test, I will replace the devil board with the Jetway and feed it with adult components, instead of the cheap junk I'm testing it with.
Anyway, I will continue to test and report
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