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There is definitely a big skew problem with this board
This is a bug that should be addressed and should certainly warrant a new bios as it completely un-stabilises the board. Adding 50ps skew adjustments would also go a long way to achieving stability with this board (although this might not happen due to hardware limitations).
As for AI Clock Twister it is unacceptable that this should behave the way it does.
Setting to Stronger should provide the most bandwidth by tightening timings whilst Lighter should provide the least bandwidth by loosening timings (with strong moderate and light providing intermediate steps).
This is another blatant bug which interferes with the function of the board and as such needs to be rectified.
This board was advertised to support DDR2 1200MHz, in order to do this and comply with JEDEC specs we need tREF adjustment as a tREF of 3120t is simply to low at 1200Mhz. Manual tREF adjustment would be a welcome addition to the BIOS and should include an auto setting which sets tREF according to JEDEC specs depending on RAM frequency.
This would greatly increase the ability to achieve the stability we were lead to believe we would achieve through the purchase of this board and as such we all paid a premium for it.
Also it is unacceptable that ASUS haven't updated the JMicron and Intel option ROM's. All other motherboard manufactures frequently update these and it is time for ASUS to follow suit. These updates fix performance bugs and issues relating to the Intel RAID controller and the JMicron PATA controller and we would get these if ASUS just spent about 20min to incorporate the updated ROM's.
We all paid a premium price for this board expecting a high performance X48 chipset that could through everything we could at it with stability and customer service congruent with our expectation of the Republic of Gamers Line.
If ASUS want any of us to purchase another board from them then our concerns need to be heeded and fixed. These are after all bugs that affect the stability of the board.
I can tell you that if all these problems we have found fall on deaf ears once again then this will be my first and last ASUS motherboard purchase, I will go to which ever company listen to their customers about bugs and stability problems.