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Originally Posted by Deux

Thought I'd briefly sum up my UD9 thoughts here if case anyone is interested.

First off, yeah it's significantly overpriced. If it were $30-$50 more than the classified 4 way it would be worth it but not at $624 or whatever it is now.

Full disclosure, my board isn't retail and has a few minor differences, mostly power connectors.

As to the secret bios issues, personally I don't believe in them. I have the E22 bios that Pro and Hicookie show off with, there isn't anything hugely special about it, in fact it's terrible for memory clocking, anything over ~1020 is unstable regardless of timings.
Yes, it is slightly more efficient for Super Pi and arguably PiFast, 95% of the difference seems to be the CPU microcode ignore thing which is available on the R3E now.

After about a few weeks on E22 I switched to retail bioses, F2-F4 and have been much happier since. It's a solid board all around, Bclk isn't at the same level as my E760 and there is a bit of latency from the NF200s but other than that, no real issues. Other thing worth mentioning is that it's a PITA to insulate, even with eraser.

It's replaced the E760 as my go to board when I want to test a chip if that says anything. Still there is no way I'd pay $624 for one, the difference just isn't there in my opinion.

Honest enough. Care to elaborate on what you like better about UD9 over the 760? Are you seeing higher mhz accross the board?