Moan: I don't think I will ever buy an Asus motherboard again. I had a K8V Deluxe that suddenly died on me in Dec 2004 right when the first SLI boards were arriving (the K8V was less than a year old), and I opted to give Asus another try (they DO get awesome reviews consistently, after all) and picked up an A8N-SLI Deluxe, think it was the only SLI board you could buy at the time. Anyhow, the chipset fan failed (just like every other A8N's chipset fan did that was that old) a few months after I bought it... so rather than send it out to Asus for an RMA, I replaced the chipset fan with the zalman passive cooler. It was also much quieter than that extremely loud chipset fan.
After one of my BFG video cards died (I'll save that story for another post) I shipped the board to Asus to have one of the newer, better chipset fans installed on the unit (and to have them test it to make sure it wasn't the cause of my video card failure). That happened around Nov 06. All was well until a couple weeks ago. In the middle of queueing a winamp playlist, I lost video. After testing every component, I decided to RMA my motherboard to Asus. They ended up replacing the board with a new one (evidenced by the new serial number in my RMA info) and notified me that they shipped it back. They did NOT provide any carrier information or tracking number... and my e-mails to their RMA department went unanswered (I'd call but my phone reception sucks, I'm surprised it didn't cut out while I called for the RMA).
On top of all that, I'm totally fed up with their website, how impossible it is to navigate, and how slow the download speeds are (and half the time they freeze while you're in the middle of a download).
No more Asus for me, positive reviews be damned. My next motherboard will be eVGA, as I've heard lots of good things about their customer service, and their new 680i boards seem to be very decent.