So after having to wait two weeks for the card to ship out, it finally arrived and obliterated anything I threw at it. This lasted about three weeks, and then I started having artifacts (white horizontal lines) even in bios. After a week of dealing with support they determine that it is indeed having an issue and needs to be RMA-ed.
So I ship it out and they receive/accept it the next day. It gets marked into "Repair" status an sits there for two week at which point I contact support for an update. They have no update to give me, so I wait another week of no update and get an email stating I will be receiving a replacement. Upon contacting support, as suggested by the email, they tell me I am supposed to reply to the automated email that explicitly states DO NOT REPLY... So today I receive an email stating that they're unable to give me a replacement, but I can have a Strix card instead! Accepting this would basically mean I paid $180 (including the extra tax and RMA shipping) extra for a Strix with the added benefit of having no graphics card for over a month.
The whole reason I bought the Matrix was to go in tandem with my Rampage IV Black, to take advantage of the VGA hotwire and possibly LN2 down the road if I decide not to resell this build, so the Strix doesn't even meet the basic requirements in place when I bought the card. Is this really the norm from ASUS nowadays?
EDIT: Before anyone can say I broke it with the VGA Hotwire/OC/LN2 etc... I was far to busy prepping for and running an event for Intel LANFest durring this time to do anything besides preset "Gaming Mode" within GPUTweak before the problems arose.
