ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[Oliverda]

CHIV EOL now? No more BIOS's?

Probably. I won't buy any high end ASUS mobo in the future. I've never seen such a poor support for a $200+ priced mobo.

[CrimInalA]

Probably. I won't buy any high end ASUS mobo in the future. I've never seen such a poor support for a $200+ priced mobo.

I said that with my last Asus board already , so this is their final chance with me

Focus is prolly on SandyBridge boards now, but no doubt that the CH IV and co will get future updates... even old X48 still get updates , but maybe not on the pace you guys want ... I'm running the latest official CH IV bios at home with 250HTT and 2000mhz rams at C7 daily... I can even reach it at lower volts than with older biosses... very small HT swing...

Speculation . Besides , your board is running stable according to you . Good . But that doesn't necessarily mean others people boards are running stable .

[Panther_Seraphi]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

[beta]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

MSI 790FX-GD70 last bios release date: November 1.

[dyeager]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

I got new bios updates from gigabyte this summer for the GA-M57SLI-S4 and GA-M61P-S3. These are at least 5 generations old

I am willing to wait, but some communication would be nice

[diddi35]

I guess ASUS/bingo13 cares more about bios support for Intel boards for now.
I never imagined that "very soon" could be that long (for the new M4A79 beta bios)

[Leeghoofd]

Speculation . Besides , your board is running stable according to you . Good . But that doesn't necessarily mean others people boards are running stable .

Dunno bout speculation, debugging is in full progress. Lots of boards already at or on the way. Our samples should arrive next week somewhere. The companies want to be 100% ready at launch date, believe me the focus is there... a late arrival means loss in sales...

Won't it be a good idea to dedicate a Formula IV thread with just the issues peopel are still having. Also state how to replicate the issue, things you tried to resolve it etc. I had loads of users in the RE III thread having the Bclock/drop in 3D performance issue (Error bits). Sadly only two contributed in a dedicated thread, while in the RE III thread at a certain time almost everybody had it (snowball effect). I can't defend the end user with only two people having an issue. Although believe me we (me and Massman) had a good discussion at the Asus Frankfurt Tech conference on the RE III/Designed for overclocking issues...
I would happily be the liason between the bios engineers and the end user. But I need solid proof of how, why and what ?

For this board : Most HT/Vcore swings are due to incorrect CPU-Z readouts (think we posted the THG proggie zillions time already and Bingo13 told us to use either a DMM or the ASUS soft to readout voltages) , enabling the Turbo makes it all worse (it's an AMD thing ) and speù issues due to bad/corrupt/incorrect executed bios flashes.

Also don't always believe what you read. Some users aren't as apt as they tend to show... it's not always the board or bios too blame... As always there are flawed boards, no discussion bout that... but never forget the human factor !! Secondly the perfect board/bios doesn't exist. Every board got it's own little quirks (not working divider, CL7 bug,etc...)

I'm just an end user like you, that does a lot of testing for reviews/ companies and open to any suggestions. But I have to remain sceptical to some reports...

My CH IV board is a pre retail sample ( which isn't an as good overclocker as the retail I had for the review (340 vs 355HT Clocks ) But till now rock solid at home, folds with 6 cores at 4Ghz/2000Mhz/2750Nb speed, Cooled by Corsair H70. Plays Bad Company 2 for hours and it allows me to do my daily stuff...

[LowRun]

For this board : Most HT/Vcore swings are due to incorrect CPU-Z readouts (think we posted the THG proggie zillions time already and Bingo13 told us to use either a DMM or the ASUS soft to readout voltages) and due to bad/corrupt/incorrect executed bios flashes.

I can testify that DMM in hand, CPU-Z is doing WAY better than Asus software as far as voltages readouts here on my CH IV F.