M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Catastrophe

[OC Maximus]

This is not a ran't thread, just want to share my personal experience with this motherboard.

This board was purchased new from Newegg back in May and it died yesterday. Well, I hope its only the board and not the processor. Computer will not post, not beep, nothing. Only fans and pump come on when I press the power button.

This death didn't happen out of the blue, there were some clear indications that the board was dieing.

Two months after having everything up and running, 4GHz 24/7, crossfire stopped working. Come to find out PCIE lanes were stuck at 8x/1x vs 8x/8x. So I pulled a GPU and have ran with a single 5770 ever since.

Yesterday I rebooted and lost the display. Computer would beep but wasn't sending a signal to the display so I pulled the GPU and inserted it in the PCIE that was stuck at 1x and the display came back. I reset CMOS, pulled the battery, ect. And again confirmed that my primary PCIE slot, which should have been running at x16 with a single GPU but had been stuck at x8, was officially dead.

After and hour of running the GPU in the only working PCIE lane I noticed my display had frozen. So I went ahead and rebooted and nothing happened. Dead as a door nail. Pulled the GPU and tried the onboard graphics and still nothing. Reset CMOS, pulled battery, ect, and still nothing. Reseated CPU, checked all connections and still nothing. Dead, dead, dead.

Now that my main rig is down after only 4 months I'm again shopping for a motherboard. I'm looking for a "Proven Solid" motherboard that can handle 4GHz 24/7, a pair of 5770's in crossfire, and last more than 4 months. No need for x16/x16 at the moment, x8/x8 will be just fine. Any suggestions?

Thank you for your time,
OCM