ASUS Maximus Formula SE

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Good point

Ok, this board has just insanely scared the crap out of me.

Basically, the thing I missed yesterday, was that my RAID array failed because it suddenly decided to pump 2.0v into FSB Termination. Everything is manually set, 1.38v on the FSB as well.

When I noticed the mobo started posting weirdly I decided to check all my settings after the Overclock failed message blah blah, went into the Extreme Tweaker menu and sure enough, it had MANUALLY set the FSB Termination to 2.0v

How on earth can the board decide to alter the settings manually by itself? I didn't even have any of the ASUS software installed with my brief experience of setting up Vista, no EPU driver or anything.

Main thing I'm worried about now, is recovering data from my RAID-0, but now I'm scared for all the other voltage settings, because if it can happen to the FSB without a real reason, what's not to say that it hasn't been randomly happening to the CPU, PLL, SB and DRAM all this time? No wonder people have been complaining about their RAM suddenly dying.

The near double voltage spikes that happened with GAR are definitely not a one-off, as we can see now, this is a serious problem that can potentially ruin everyones hardware.

I'm preparing to write ASUS a pretty long e-mail regarding this