@ justapost, still no sign on and I get any emails to the forums back as undelivered mail. So the cross forum talk continues, lol. I did mention in my email to Asus on the memory performance, together we should get things through to them. Do you know what the other memory choices are for, I have never seen them before?

Also have you watched the mosfets, they seem to be cool on my board despite not having h.s. or fans. I don't think the MSI firecracker event is likely.

Tell noee to unistall aod and try it with the BE, that is what I had to do.
Can a moderator explain why jpierce55 can not join the forum please?

@jpierce55 did you get any response from asus? I did not even get a mail saying my request arrived.

Mosfets don't get too hot here. They used the same stuff as on the M2A-VM.
With the stock cpu cooler they got pretty hot there but that board allowed up to 1,65V for the CPU. 0,1V more that on the M3A. I allways used three additinal fans (mem, mosfets, nb) on the M2A-VM. With the M3A i only use the ram fan somtimes. NB and mosfets get enough airflow from the cpu fan now.
On the M2A-VM the mosfets man some clicking noise under stress sometimes did not experience that on the M3A also.