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Also it is unacceptable that ASUS haven't updated the JMicron and Intel option ROM's. All other motherboard manufactures frequently update these and it is time for ASUS to follow suit. These updates fix performance bugs and issues relating to the Intel RAID controller and the JMicron PATA controller and we would get these if ASUS just spent about 20min to incorporate the updated ROM's.

Actually it takes them 1 min (bigest consume of time is finding them, however since they are company that produces mobos, dont think they can have problems on that department)... 20min is more like if they want to update them on ALL motherboards. But ye ASUS is NEVER updating option roms on ANY of their boards, no idea why, when intel for example is updating them constnatly (figures, their chipset, their mobos, their roms) and lot of other manufactures less frequently but they still do it 2-3 times/year. However officaly only 7.x option roms supports ICH9R so dont expect mirricles on this department, 8.x are still working (figures ICH10R is basicaly downsized ICH9R), however 9.x seems to not work at this moment, even intel X58 mobos are using 8.9.x...

I actualy gave up on asus few months ago after i sended them 2 mails about tref... Also it seems i got in to my CPU max stable frequency anyway with 8x451 since it doesnt seems i could make it stable no matter what i did (in normal limits), so i stoped complaining that much, however i probably wont buy another asus board and i was big fan of asus until now. However they have great RMA policy... 2 months ago my old 9800gx2 burned out, i got gtx295 in replacement It took then month+ but still!

If Asus wants then can feed me with newest hardware and ill be taking care of drivers/bios updates for that! Im sure in that case people will be tired of "changes" every week