@ McDivot
Glad to hear you resolved your issues to your liking. Too bad you weren't able to get the ASUS working as it is a fine board.
The Verbatims will work very well with your Plextor. You can check your burn results with plextools or Nero CD-DVDSpeed disk quality test.
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