Quote Originally Posted by pythonse View Post
wouldnt bad memory at least power on and then have a beep or code on the led screen?...thanks for the reply btw ket
Not necissarily. Years ago I had a bad stick but the system would power up most times and shut itself off under certain load conditions. Took me about a day to figure out it was a bad stick as I thought something was overheating or the PSU was going bad.

Quote Originally Posted by bat4 View Post
I have found an interesting review about the EtronTech USB 3.0 Host Controller:

http://www.hardcoreware.net/gigabyte...oard-review/9/

Quote:
"This board is the first time I have seen the Etron EJ168A controller, and I have to say, it sucks. All throughout testing, I would have problems transferring files to and from the test system, and completing benchmarks. It would transfer fine for a while, but would randomly get “stuck” running at 1 MB/s or so. It wasn’t actually crashing, it was just lagging really bad. This happened across various USB 3.0 devices (although never came up when I tried a USB 2.0 device in the port). I have tried the latest drivers from the website, but to no avail.

So it could be that I have a bum board here, or it could be that the Etron controller just isn’t ready for real world use just yet. Things may improve with drivers in a while, but for now, it is not usable."

"Not only is it less reliable than the Renesas solution found on most boards, it is slower as well."
It says the latest drivers were used, but does not specify which driver version. If claims like that are going to be made it makes sence to actually say which driver version was used. As it doesn't, I can only assume old drivers were used as the drivers on the asrock site are quite a way behind the newest Etron drivers available.