Quote Originally Posted by Brother Esau View Post
I believe that my biggest fear with getting this motherboard was going to be that the Bios were going to be AMD release Dependant unfortunately seems to be true. As we all know AMD is in a boat load of trouble right now and focusing in on new releases and from what I read with the Phenom failure with their stance on this they are what appears to be abandoning whats going on currently and focusing their resources in on new products
You're wrong here my friend. BIOS is no way AMD dependent, it's just matter of resources one mobo maker is willing to put in it.

You've noticed bunch of LanParty models based on Intels' "series 3" chipset form DFI. And we all know that DFI isn't really big company. So they've focused all of their efforts towards Intel's product line, and that's way their first AM2+ offering suffers this much.

I do believe that things will get better in a matter of weeks (after all couple weeks after this UT mobo, they've announced DK part of this LanParty series…)

Only question is how much are customers like our self are prepared to wait?

Regarding the AMD, they're putting all of their effort behind Phenom. And Phenom is by no means failure. Who ever played with this processor more than short period of time that reviewers on the web do, will tell you how positive experience in terms of delivered performances. Inevitable part of that is the feeling that CPU really needs just something little more to unleash its full potential. IMHO that little more is MHz's.

Regardless of the feeling, fact remain that we've witnessed hard birth of the new architecture. But if you put aside TLB fiasco, delivery of K8 haven't been much different… it's just that competition at that time was much inferior, and AMD didn't had this burden of FUD stories around it's neck!