@SAM, I dont take it personal, nor infuriating, just irritating.
@Jericho, ASUS used to be a reliable brand up until about 2 years ago. As for the PSU, wattage alone means nothing. If you got a junk 650 watt(which in terms of a quality PSU is MAJOR overkill for such a system) it may be out performed by a 300 watt psu of good quality like a Corsair. Plus you run the risk of throwing away the money you just spent as it could destroy your parts or worse yet, catch fire.
From what I gather, the quality of different batches is continuously varied. Some boards will always be good (rare), some boards will always be bad (more ommon), but most commonly, there are good and bad batches of boards. The uncertainty makes people dismiss claims of unreliability on the grounds of "oh, you just got unlucky with a bad one, it happens". With Asus, however, it happens more often than brands who do not skimp on build quality, such as MSI, Biostar and Gigabyte.
