Usually it is the other way around. EVGA's site used to be riddled with reports of boards frying multiple sets of RAM,and I've seen a few Asus boards do it too. It just sucks that it happened to me.
I have yet to stress everything (Haven't had the time), but so far it's been running good. All my settings (with the exception of sound and time) stayed set and no BSOD's from the drastic change in hard ware.