I purchased one of the first boards available (had it at the beginning of December) and it has given me no problems at all so far. I don't overclock so I could care less about any of that and the shipping BIOS of 1002 has been fine for me. I really don't think that this is a beta board, its just that since SLI is in its infancy there is going to be issues with the amount of features these products support. Plus the fact that nVidia and ASUS have been running these things far longer than when they were available to the public. I remember them doing a demonstration of SLI way back in October. ASUS was the only motherboard with SLI at that time and nVidia was working closely with them to iron out incompatibilies and create a great gaming platform. True, they may have released SLI a little too soon but then again when it works it is truelly awesome.