I emailed ASUS about this and this is what they said:
You will only need to include just the motherboard. The accessories are yours to keep. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact us. Have a nice day!
If you need further assistance, please contact
Technical Support...
I haven't had a problem for 3 weeks after reinstalling and disabling settings so I hope no weird issues pop up for me. I'm probably not even going to RMA this board and just deal with the SATA issue.
"The systems with the affected support chips have only been shipping since January 9th"
So for those of us who bought it during launch day or first couple days, I don't think there's a need to worry?
So, after updating to 1203 and reenabling C3 and C6. It's been up and running for nearly 24 hours. So this leads me to believe its some setting in the BIOS such as upping ram voltage to 1.55v or some driver conflict in windows.
I have the exact same problem and it's very frustrating!
It went through 11 hours of prime95, 8 passes of memtest, and 6 hours of furmark with no errors. In the 2 weeks that I've had it, it has never once frozen during load but it always freezes over night or when I'm not at the computer...