Nice review. Board sucks, but nice review. Had the same freezing and blue screen issues with GA-EP45-UD3P. Seems the problem still haunts the updated boards. Too bad for Gigabyte.
You may need to update the chipset drivers.
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
Why did my system failed to shut down or restart after I updated BIOS to latest beta version? My system was set on RAID disks.
Answer
Please note that latest beta BIOS has to be used with...