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MSI Scampers to Launch New AMD 400-series Motherboards with 256Mb BIOS Chips

It amazes me that this gets public in the first place, to be honest. This is one obvious kink AMD should have smoothed out with AIBs long ago. Its not like this is some minor, obscure feature.
 
Vayra86 said:
It amazes me that this gets public in the first place, to be honest. This is one obvious kink AMD should have smoothed out with AIBs long ago. Its not like this is some minor, obscure feature.
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Why are you amazed? This is just how capitalism works: CEO approves a plan to save a few cents per board by using a 128Mbit chip instead of a 256Mbit one, the money saved on producing hundreds of thousands of boards can then go to towards the CEO's bonus. On the occasions like this one where the penny-pinching goes south, any good CEO will ensure that someone far junior to them takes the fall.
 
btarunr said:
the larger ROM chip allows MSI to have AGESA 1.0.0.3a without sacrificing on its feature-rich Click BIOS 5 UEFI setup program, SATA RAID module, or losing support for any of the socket AM4 processors.
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IMO, breaking RAID support is terrible, it's putting users data at risk just so they can keep a flashy looking BIOS. Ditch the flashy BIOS and go back to the generic blue and grey look and leave RAID support.
 
Newtekie
MSI note says RAID is not ready ‘yet’ so we’re all hopeful. Flashy bios has gone already.
 
Assimilator said:
Why are you amazed? This is just how capitalism works: CEO approves a plan to save a few cents per board by using a 128Mbit chip instead of a 256Mbit one, the money saved on producing hundreds of thousands of boards can then go to towards the CEO's bonus. On the occasions like this one where the penny-pinching goes south, any good CEO will ensure that someone far junior to them takes the fall.
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Well you have a different impression of how capitalism works than I do, then... Never have I seen this level of clumsiness in real / corporate businesses and if it did happen, it was widely recognized as a mistake not ever to repeat again. These things cost money and its strikingly obvious to anyone with half a brain. Public opinion is alpha and omega when you produce consumer products.

Enter AMD... a company that struggles on all the non-core business aspects, really. Marketing, timing, PR... ,distribution control, none of it is great.
 
Vayra86 said:
Enter AMD... a company that struggles on all the non-core business aspects, really. Marketing, timing, PR... ,distribution control, none of it is great.
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I may agree with you. However to keep things into context, let’s not forget that Intel wouldn’t have had this problem as they would have changed the socket twice since First Gen Ryzen!

So yes, this looks like a big mistake. But let’s appreciate the efforts!
 
Guys X470 gaming pro carbon AC has 256 mb of bios?
 
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