ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[NEOAethyr]

Maybe it's the pin count on the cpu but I don't know.
Maybe the am3+ cpus have the exact same pinout ^^.
That's all I'm saying, there's no official info on that as far as I've seen.

But asus is saying a good chunk of there boards are officially compatible (they're saying at least they are gonna try...).
And I don't see any board rev's notes tagged on to that news either...
So it seems if you have a ch4 or some of the other board it'll work when the time comes.
It'll probably need another bios though I think.

I think they are just getting it to work as is.
Booting, with all of the bios settings "mostly" working.
I think this is what the latest rev is all about.

That's what I'm thinking is going on with the bank interleaving (1 value to replace now instead of more then a handful).
And the tRC min/max values, seems like it's for the official 1866mhz coming up...(saw somewhere amd was supporting 1866 with am3+)

And what I for some reason.. think is up with the ganged/unganged mode settings in the bios
The bios was confused on one boot and thought it was the other way around when I was testing it at high ram speed and nb speed, probably after I loaded a profile, it might not store it in the profile or something I dn.

I wonder...
Yep, ram ratio list up as ->
Unknown (not sure if this belongs...)
400 MHz
533 MHz
667 MHz
800 MHz (4x)
1067 MHz
1333 MHz
1600 MHz <- (8x) this is our current max, 250 fsb = 2ghz mem
1866 MHz <- (9.33x)

fsb * ratio = mem speed:
225 * 9.33 = 2099.25
215 * 9.33 = 2005.95

I wonder if the new cpu can clock ram better...
Otherwise it would be a gimmick lol...


This bios defently adds at least some support for a mem ratio we don't have on am3 cpu's, or not supposed to..(never checked to see myself).

Edit:
As for clearing the cmos after a flash, I didn't usually bother on this board...
If I were flashing from dos I'de try from the cmd line.

I hate loading optimized defaults :\.
And it's funny the clear cmos on the back doesn't clear the whole cmos either...
But this board has been pretty good in respect to her cmos bs, the button on the back works 99.9% of the time.
This was the 1st time I really needed to clear it out after a bios upgrade, the load optimized defaults worked good enough.

I just don't trust them defaults lol, it could be diff cmos defaults then a cleared cmos.
That's why I don't like them, bios makers usually have sloppy defaults that are all messed up, on pheonix bioses there were 2 defaults and they never matched, hidden stuff in the bios would end up at diff values :\.