MSI or ASUS

they are both very close the making the same motherboards. I would look at both and make sure it fits your socket and make sure the price is good, then from there look at things like expandabilty, for example how much ram they support and how fast or how many PCI or PCI-E slots they have.:)
 
The brand should have nothing to do with your decision, because they are both good brands. What boards are you considering?
 
I'd take a cheap MSI board over a cheap Asus board, but once you start paying >$200 then I'd start going with Asus.
 
I'd go witn MSI if its a rather cheap board.
i had 3 MSI boards so far, and none of them had any problems so far.
( 1 lied outside a case for 3 months, without protection,.. because it was broken due to a lightning strike.. turned out it was the bios that got fried, because when i putted in a new bios chip, the board worked again )
so,... i kinda have good expieriences with MSI.. that board survived a lightning strike, and 3 months of lieing around... and its running my home server atm :)
 
I like MSI mobos, mainly cause this is my second one from MSI. The first one I think the DIMM slots got busted because of the high FSB, it just couldn't take it anymore after about 4-5 months.
 
So let me tell you a story about a man named Jed
The poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
And then one day he was shootin for some food.
When up from the ground came a bubblin crude.

So he took his money in and he bought an MSI
He brought the dumb thing home and the piece of shit was fried.
He took it to the shop and he asked for PC EYE...
But he couldn't help him out cuz his backup board had died.


Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. :D



I used to sell MSI boards. I had somewhere around a 30% DOA rate on them. It was really frustrating when I had a whole rig built and had to tear it all apart again. It was a huge waste of time and a loss of revenue doing RMAs and shit. This didn't include the ones that came back to me for RMA.

So I scrapped the lineup entirely. Yeah, you get lucky and get a good one. I'm sure lots of people do. I just found it wasn't worth the headache when there are so many other brands to choose from.



Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.
 
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Haha.

My computer currently has an MSI. It's a turd, but I knew that when I bought it. It was cheap, and it has proved stable. I've had my issues though, and look forward to returning to owning an Asus, Gigabyte, or something else more worthy for my next build. My ASUS AMD I had was wonderful. Damn Lightning.
 
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