Quote Originally Posted by ReverendMaynard View Post
Any other goodness I should know about this F8b? S3 is probably about as far as I could get from caring for lol.
The only things I really like about 8b is new AHCI rom so boot is few seconds faster in AHCI mode as does not pause for drive search, has quick timings entry so can enter 7,7,7 21 1 just once for all three channels, and S3 which you dont use. As for performance, stability, volt requirements, I have never seen much diff in any bios from F4j-F8b on mine, just bugs that come and go. F7C still had the Qflash bug if flashing to earlier bios, ie F3-F4, though did not exhibit the bug if flashing to same or later bios. F8b has no Qflash bug at all...but if your using F4j, you never had that bug to begin with.

Also in regards to new AHCI rom, I downloaded bios 8b from noangels post on tweaktown that said had new AHCI rom....have not tried 8b from main download page, so not sure if that 8b does have updated AHCI rom...though not that I am curious...will have to see.