good god guys....

a.) currently, the only boards that have shipped have included x8 PCIe slots with NO support for PCIe cards. in the case of the Asus DFNS-DRE board, that hardly qualifies as much of anything since it's definitely geared towards I/O cards, not video.
b.) Tyan has confirmed that early B2 stepping parts are working with bog-standard S2915s (of which i have 4) so, I should be able to test and see here within the next few weeks. (on BAs, not B2s)
c.) AMD has already stated that B2 processors will supercede the BA stepping upon launch in November. Channel Availability, if given the typical TTM of 6 weeks, will be the end of December/early January then.

we're doing this gratis while trying to balance out the other needs that customers who are actually BUYING systems need to have done. So, just give us room to operate.

the fact that AMD botched the intro on these processors is already established and repeating it (or inferring it) ad naseum in this thread will get your posts removed.

done.

dave