i just purchased a MSI 970A-G45 motherboard for my bulldozer 6 core. i read just review that i need to flash the bios to get it to work with the bulldozer. But i got mine from fry's that has a sticker on it say quot;Supports AM3+ CPU with New Bios (B2 Stepping read)quot; what is this mean?
Having re read your question I'm 100% certain you will not have to flash your bios as you said the box sticker states Supports AM3+ CPU with New Bios (B2 Stepping ready) which means it already has the latest bios for FX cpu support. B2 stepping refers to a part of the cpu architecture,long story short AMD had problems with earlier pre release versions of FX that used B0 and B1 stepping that returned poor performance,they then re engineered using B2 stepping for final release
