Just received the following response to my case raised with Asus. In fairness, they responded quickly, and their suggestions of fast boot and fast startup disabling I don't believe is going to help...

Hopefully Intel and Asus are on the case then. It is 3000Mhz RAM and I have set the XMP to use the "Profile #1" setting (or something like that) in the BIOS in order to get the true clock speed. I...

Just wanted to share my experience as I have been following this thread for a while now as I too have been experiencing the random freezing. Sometimes while the computer is doing nothing. I was...