I've read many posts on there and in particular posts by 'getyasome'. I believe he posts on [H] as well. It looks like the solutions he crafted do fix many of the issues plaguing these boards.
To JJ... I personally am using the latest drivers, WHQL and all, whether they be from the ASUS site...
I'm having a difficult time making the same decision regarding the same drives.
I've been leaning towards the M4, but the 830 has already proven to be a great drive.
I have yet to hear much regarding the Performance Pro, but it seems to be doing well with the marvell controller.
This same thing happens to me. Oftentimes I come home from work and my computer needs to be hard reset, just like yours. So far I have never seen any solution to this nor has ASUS helped at all via support forms.
It doesn't look like there was a set number of days. The RMA was generated by the customer service rep and the "reason given" was 'Product recalled by Intel hence return'. It looks like it's still valid for me.
I just got through to them again. This next guy told me that "they made a mistake sending the email out early" and that "the website should be up at about 5:45 ( in 10 more minutes his time) and the credit card page should be functioning at that point".
I just got through to phone support for the "You do not have access to this page!" error. Guy took down a bunch of my information and hung up. Errrrrr...
http://www.giga-byte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2789&dl=1
I believe this board by Gigabyte was the first, but I may be mistaken. They at least claim it is the world's first mechanical gaming keyboard.
Razer is not claiming it is the "world's first mechanical gaming keyboard", that website in the link is. It certainly isn't the world's first, so I see where you're coming from by being annoyed by that statement.
There doesn't look to be an official "Tarantula" replacement from Razer yet, just the Lycosa as mentioned before. However given the fact that the Tarantula came out many years ago and the Lycosa came out a couple years ago itself, I would imagine there is a new keyboard on the way soon, from...