Question Abou MSI

CrayonMuncher

CrayonMuncher

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I'm interested as i will hopefully be getting a new mobo soon and Ive seen some good prices on MSI.
so are they any good, reliability wise and performance wise when compared to like asus or gigabyte , both of which have done me well in the past.

thanks
 
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MSI is a 50/50 board. Some are pretty good boards, but others are problematic. Had alot of problems with them in the past. Plus customer support, might as well shoot your dog. I usually dont buy them unless its a really good deal. Probably 90% of the boards I buy are Gigabyte or Asus.
 
what do you think NASA and the military use?...MSI.

icy choke 20*c lower temp
Hi-c CAP 8x longer lifetime (Tantalum-core Capacitor) Which won the NOBEL Prize in 2000
Solid CAP 10 years lifetime


no other mobo offers that kind of performance.
 
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id honestly go asus or gigabyte, ive had good luck with gigabyte, in the past, currently my biostar board seems to be a tad touchy with its memory slots, but i think its just a bum board, since it was open boxed when i bought it... msi is probably quite decent too, just stay away from asrock as far as i can tell.
 
Ive found them to be pretty hit or miss, by that i mean ive had two boards from them the first gave up and died early but the second one took so much in o/c and endurance i was impressed
 
tech savvy said:
what do you think NASA and the military use?...MSI.

icy choke 20*c lower temp
Hi-c CAP 8x longer lifetime (Tantalum-core Capacitor) Which won the NOBEL Prize in 2000
Solid CAP 10 years lifetime


no other mobo offers that kind of performance.
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Big deal, none of that changes the facts of what I said.

Gigabyte has.

2oz. Copper PCB
Dual Bios
Lower Rds(on) mosfets
50,000 hour Japanese Solid caps.
Ferrit core Chokes

Plus the Gigabyte has a 10 phase power setup, the MSI has a 5 phase.

None of that changes the fact that MSI boards are more problematic overall then Asus or Gigabyte
 
Hehe, you guys have never heard about the gigabyte boards burning up? the VRM's literally catch of fire :D

But that's only their lowend/shitty 775 boards i believe.
 
tech savvy said:
what do you think NASA and the military use?...MSI.

icy choke 20*c lower temp
Hi-c CAP 8x longer lifetime (Tantalum-core Capacitor) Which won the NOBEL Prize in 2000
Solid CAP 10 years lifetime


no other mobo offers that kind of performance.
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LOL, the military and nasa do not use MSI. In fact, they don't use consumer motherboards in the first place(all military technology is generally custom built by defense contractors)...and any desktop computers that the military uses are from OEM's such as dell(or, as far as supercomputers, manufacturers such as CRAY). Also, something to think about, the military sells to the lowest bidder, think about that when something says "military grade components" on it.

Tantalum caps...big deal, they are reliable yes, they are also relatively cheap, but their ESR ratings arent very good. I refuse to use tantalum caps for any audio circuits i build, let alone in any part of a motherboard.
StrangleHold said:
Big deal, none of that changes the facts of what I said.

Gigabyte has.

2oz. Copper PCB
Dual Bios
Lower Rds(on) mosfets
50,000 hour Japanese Solid caps.
Ferrit core Chokes

Plus the Gigabyte has a 10 phase power setup, the MSI has a 5 phase.

None of that changes the fact that MSI boards are more problematic overall then Asus or Gigabyte
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Yeah, quality wise at the moment for AMD gigabyte has some of the better boeards.
linkin said:
Hehe, you guys have never heard about the gigabyte boards burning up? the VRM's literally catch of fire :D

But that's only their lowend/shitty 775 boards i believe.
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That happened on alot of cheap boards, not just gigabyte...

As far as MSI boards, there are a few i recommend, most of the time there is an asus or gigabyte board that outclasses it for not much more.
 
thanks, i thought that that may be the response the msi board i was looking at was the crossfire of this, which for some reason i cant find

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-NVIDIA-nF...2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1283130843&sr=1-2


but i want this more.

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-M4N75TD-...=UTF8&coliid=IYGQPW3DVKOVU&colid=D901TUOBIBXD

or the crossfire version.

Bascially the reason i ask is because i can only order from amazon.com and i live in the uk, the MSI comes from amazon whereas the asus comes from the marketplace and the shipping to the uk is more and im sick of waiting i want my stuff now :(
 
Drenlin said:
Why do you have to use Amazon? :confused:

There are several decent retailers in the UK...
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this is a bit long so here goes

basically im living abroad and i found out about Mturk so i thought i could make some cash which would have been quite good because I'm living in Thailand and my money is running low and i don't want to have to go home

After a little while of working i found out to get paid you have to live in india or the US otherwise you get a gift certificate, so now im thinking:

'its about time i build a decent comp' and i m getting a bit excited cause my computer is old, real old.

So although i know it may not be the best place, I'm looking on amazon.co.uk and found some all right deals on components, some quite nice deals on Phenom II's and ATI.

Then after a little while i find out that the gift cert can only be used on amazon.com, the US store and they dont offer much for international shipping. So basically this is the only way in the forseeable future i will be able to build a good system, which is something i really want, and now i've started im to stubborn to give up and amazon.com is the only place i can use my gift cert because they wont let you transfer it.
 
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