Ok guys, I took the plunge to flash the new bios just a few moments ago since no one else had any comments on it. There are LOTS of changes in this bios. Allow me to explain.

To start, under the Onchip IDE Device settings there is now an option labeled 'special patch for JMB63'. The options are enabled and disabled. There is no description so I have no idea what it does but it relates to the JMicron onboard controller.

Second, under the Genie settings there is now an option labeled 'O.C Fail Retry Counter'. It defaults to 0 but you can change this to any number of times you want to the board to try and boot from a fail overclock. May be useful if it manages to post at all from a failed overclock as you may be able to enter bios and make changes without having to clear CMOS.

Thirdly, under the Clock Settings Fine Delay the way the options are listed is different. Before you were able to change by whole decimal numbers to your liking such as 0-10 only. Now the options are listed as follows. 133ps, 534ps etc. They look odd and I have no clue what they are but perhaps this is a way to fine tune clock delays even more?

Fourth, under the Read Delay Phase Adjust heading it now lists exactly how the Read Delay Phases are working. For example, CH1 on my setup reads 6-7-7-7-6, where as CH2 reads 7-7-7-7-6. This is a great way to see exactly what it is doing per cycle as making changes will be reflected in the numbers above.

That is all that is 'visibly' changed as bios options, who knows what other fine tuning was done in the background for performance and stability that we can't see or read with our eyes. I have only had my system up long enough to write this but so far my everest memory read has gone up 20mb/s from the 11/13 bios but this could just be due to margin of error. I will begin priming from my stable settings from 11/13 to be sure they still keep up.

Hope this helps some as the changes listed above may warrant a flash for something new to play with. If anyone can explain what some of the above listed options are please do as perhaps we can all learn a little something more about what this board has to offer.

All this yet the bios was only to have a microde update change. I love how DFI sneaks in a whole revamped bios when it lists that on the download page.