my mother board burned up within 6 months XD

Oh, damn! It ran out that quickly?

I am sorry to hear that man. Things just keep coming. Hopefully you'll find some relief from this chaos soon. :X

Fuck D:

I've had that happen before, on a server computer no less. Always frustrating :(

At least you aren't getting pissed on ;)

Gigabyte motherboards have a durable version (pretty standard, but it will be obvious in the description) that makes them more impervious to the hairline fractures that lead to circuit trace erosion and loss. This means the motherboard doesn't wear out so fast or often from the thermal differential between on and off state. Other motherboards can break in 6 mos of being turned on and off with 50C of temperature differential which is standard in high-performance (esp. overclocked) builds.

It doesn't help your current situation, but seems as if you have to choose a different mobo supplier anyhow, and migrate the CPU and RAM (and plugin boards). So that's my recommendation. My gaming PC has been built and rebuilt 3x and on and off plenty without a hitch... same Gigabyte durable LGA 1155 mobo.

I have never had a motherboard crack, ever, and I've been building and repairing computers since the Pentium 100mhz CPU was common. I've had motherboards come out of computers with a very drastic curve and still function, so generally they don't fail that way.

I've had multiple Gigabyte and ASRock motherboards die on me, generally I'm not brand biased but I just don't trust them anymore. This is the first Asus board I've ever had fail, so while it's a mark against them, they haven't had as many as the others. Defects happen, and I will probably buy other brands again, but for now I'm sticking with what I know to be the least likely to go poof.

Indeed, I can not criticize Asus technologies, whatever the data processing form you speak - laptop, monitor, motherboard, computer system.

The crack I speak of are microscopic separations (pulling apart) of circuit traces, often those in between the top and bottom layers of the motherboard. There usually are at least 2 additional thin layers stacked carefully beneath, both sides sporting circuit traces. When you apply heat and relative cool to these layers, being they are fiberglass and aluminum composite, the latter being your circuit layer, the whole thing bows and flexes because of the layers and material differences from something more flexible (the fiberglass) and the more brittle aluminum.

Copper circuit board traces have been standard in printed circuit boards (almost said PCBs or PC Boards, both would be confused with [IBM] Personal Computer circuits). Layering apparently was difficult to perform with copper, and therefore aluminum and/or tin/tungsten were used. All of these are brittle metals.

I can only guess the durable/copper trace PC Boards you last used from Gigabyte were not the case last time. But I also have had great success and serious pleasure from the capability vs. price value from an ECB (micro ATX) motherboard. I had no idea who they were and just gambled like $40 on one to host an Intel i5 LGA 1155 I had with other spare parts laying around. It made for quite a successful build that together with an equally cheap nVidia graphics card yielded a gaming system that does run WoW @ 29 FPS with the graphics on normal->good.

Strange to know that an ASUS had failed; it's an "elite" product, as far as I know. Perhaps it was a pathetic defect, it simply happens and it's inevitable.
Anyway, I hope you can get a new one, my friend! Hmm, what about MSI? I've never tested them, but I've heard good reviews about it. Of course, there might be other MB that are actually better. Let's hope you get lucky, and you obtain one mother that lasts a decent amount of time!