It looks like a BIOS problem to me.

When the first SB-E numbers came out and the performance was worse than SB and the power consumption was unmanageable.... there weren't 4 pages of "OMG boo-hoo i'm gonna buy AMD"



I'm not gonna write off BD based on this. I trust the 501 team and I trust they got the right numbers for the hardware and firmware they had. Just needs a few tweaks