ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Everybody's moving on to Bulldozer and I'm still waiting for ASUS to release BIOS support for the M3N WS. Seriously, a workstation board doesn't receive the update to get 6core support, but older consumer grade M3N series boards do?!? Poorly played..........very poorly.

[trans am]

Everybody's moving on to Bulldozer and I'm still waiting for ASUS to release BIOS support for the M3N WS. Seriously, a workstation board doesn't receive the update to get 6core support, but older M2N series boards do?!? Poorly played..........very poorly.

you are complaining about bios support for a EOL amd ddr2 server board with an nvidia chipset? poorly played or call it whatever you want. no offense but maybe its time to move on. poorly played? more like I'm too cheap to play.
what do you want man? I guess a good analogy would be complaining to AMD to release a 9800 pro with pci-e support because you have a agp 8x board you can't part with.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

you are complaining about bios support for a EOL amd ddr2 server board with an nvidia chipset? poorly played or call it whatever you want. no offense but maybe its time to move on. poorly played? more like I'm too cheap to play.
what do you want man? I guess a good analogy would be complaining to AMD to release a 9800 pro with pci-e support because you have a agp 8x board you can't part with.

Perhaps. But when consumer grade motherboards with the same chipset already have the support added, I would expect the same level of professionalism applied to their workstation boards. People paid a premium for those boards so the same (if not better) level of support should be directed towards those boards.

Seriously, if these boards are supported why wasn't the workstation board?

M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe
http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_I...specifications

M3N-H/HDMI
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=hR9xA49ZHyU31AeA

Both of these consumer grade motherboards support the 1100t. I completely understand your sentiments were these boards also not supported.

I also would argue with the EOL statement. It's the only motherboard listed under AMD workstations for that socket. It's not listed in the legacy section. They delisted the M2N version to show it was EOL. They even sell it as being open to future upgrades themselves:

The M3N WS is the ideal foundation for a powerful PC. It delivers awesome power, dependable performance and unparallel multiple /O scalability for the most demanding tasks and future upgrades.

All I'm asking for is the same support given to a workstation that was given to a consumer grade motherboard. I don't think that's beyond expectations. I've already opened up a complaint ages ago, but nada. So, in my book, definitely poorly played. Especially when a DDR3 alternatively doesn't even exist in their workstation section. I can't even go out and buy a new one!