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How Good is MSI? Reliability, User Friendly, Easy to Use BIOS? Etc

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Now I already know MSI is a company people do tend to buy from a lot in the US. 

 

But just how good are they? I've been looking at their Twin Frozr V GTX 970 a lot and I'm curious about their Z97 Gaming 7 Motherboard. 

 

I originally had planned to put the ASUS ROG Z97 Hero VII in my build, but people insisted to get something cheaper. I am obviously trying to go with a red theme here and unfortunately the ASUS ROG Ranger (Which is essentially just a cheaper Hero with like 2 features taken away) never came to anywhere outside of the UK. 

 

So then I was going to go with maybe the Sabertooth Mark 2, but the color of that board as we all know is....well..."unique." It does look nice in some builds, but there's really nothing that I want that matches it's color scheme. 

 

I'm a wee bit of an ASUS Fanboy when it comes to their motherboards, but if you've owned an MSI board or currently are running one, please give me all the feedback and personal experience you can on them. :)

 

Thanks for readin'. 

 

PS Little Mini Rant: Oh wait, now something I'd like to get off my chest a bit, while yes I am a bit of an ASUS Fanboy when it comes to their motherboards, don't worry I understand fully that, that gold is STILL fugly and holy cow ASUS, I understand it's your premium line up of motherboards, but HOLY CRAP. Lower those prices, the ROG Crosshair V Formula for 990FX is STILL over 200 dollars! 

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I have an MSI Z97M Gaming board for about a month now, no complaints at all. Sound is great!

 

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MSI's Twin Frozr historically has been the best performing cooler on most Nvidia cards usually neck and neck with the Windforce cooler in terms of temps and beating it in terms of acoustics. 

 

As for motherboards they are reliable. However I know one of their z77 boards was RMAed like 1 out of 20 times so they don't have a spotless record.

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I have an MSI Z97M Gaming board for about a month now, no complaints at all. Sound is great!

 

How's the BIOS? Easy to use, not slow or clunky? 

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No just no MSI can't even make an ad and you to expect reliability from them?

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Not MSI but I installed a Gigabyte H97M Gaming 3 in my brother's computer recently which is a red/black colourscheme too. No issues to speak of but haven't had it very long and haven't needed to contact customer support so can't really deduce too much from that. Just thought I'd point out that they have red/black boards too which IMO look better than MSI's.

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MSI's Twin Frozr historically has been the best performing cooler on most Nvidia cards usually neck and neck with the Windforce cooler in terms of temps and beating it in terms of acoustics. 

 

As for motherboards they are reliable. However I know one of their z77 boards was RMAed like 1 out of 20 times so they don't have a spotless record.

Well luckily I'm getting a Z97 board lol. Though from what it seems to me is that I should NEVER use their "Live Update 6" program as it can literally BRICK your system...sooo yeah...just gonna hopefully be able to uninstall that when/if I get their board....lol

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Well luckily I'm getting a Z97 board lol. Though from what it seems to me is that I should NEVER use their "Live Update 6" program as it can literally BRICK your system...sooo yeah...just gonna hopefully be able to uninstall that when/if I get their board....lol

 

I would probably buy a Gigabyte motherboard personally. I haven't had any experience with them but they seem to make reliable motherboards. Here is a red one if you are interested. I wouldn't fear buying an MSI board and I personally am running one but I hear good things about Gigabyte too.

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Not MSI but I installed a Gigabyte H97M Gaming 3 in my brother's computer recently which is a red/black colourscheme too. No issues to speak of but haven't had it very long and haven't needed to contact customer support so can't really deduce too much from that. Just thought I'd point out that they have red/black boards too which IMO look better than MSI's.

Eh I don't particularly like that their boards are red now, they should have stayed blue....especially since their GPU line up is freaking black and blue. But Anyways, their not fully black either, there's hints of gray around their motherboards and it just doesn't sit well with me in terms of looks. 

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No just no MSI can't even make an ad and you to expect reliability from them?

Do you have a good reason for not liking them? Don't just hate on a company and not explain in detail why you don't like them. 

 

I would probably buy a Gigabyte motherboard personally. I haven't had any experience with them but they seem to make reliable motherboards. Here is a red one if you are interested. I wouldn't fear buying an MSI board and I personally am running one but I hear good things about Gigabyte too.

Ehhhh...as I explained to someone else, the hints of gray really bother me, and I hate that they've gone red, I loved their blue motherboards more and would immediately buy one if they were still that color. Also...not sure how I feel about the eye logo on the board. 

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MSI should just open its awesome teky porn industry. That's all what they deserve with their Chinese or Japanese sluts or whatever the shit is.

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Sometimes you shouldn't worry too much what people say, get that ROG board if you really want it, you're going to use it at the end of the day, not them. And for your question MSI is fine as are many other manufacturers, except for say foxxconn and lower which are questionable.

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They're pretty good. Just don't use M-Flash or whatever it's called now.

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How's the BIOS? Easy to use, not slow or clunky? 

I find them easy, average......

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I've seen the BIOS on MSI boards and it looks fairly easy to get the hang of.

 

No just no MSI can't even make an ad and you to expect reliability from them?

MSI should just open its awesome teky porn industry. That's all what they deserve with their Chinese or Japanese sluts or whatever the shit is.

Your posts are just so useful. What was your thinking behind them to help, if at all?

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I've seen the BIOS on MSI boards and it looks fairly easy to get the hang of.

Your posts are just so useful. What was your thinking behind them to help, if at all?

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MSI knows what they are doing with hardware, don't trust the software they put out though. I'm pretty sure the only good software they ever made was afterburner, and that's pretty simple :P

 

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I owned a  MSI GTX 660 back when it was the latest, and sadly it stopped working after 2-3 months of use (the warranty just covered 1 month). I'll give MSI the benefit of doubt since I believe not every product can be perfect, and there will always be this kind of defective products, but from my experience with the only product I ever owned from MSI... It's bad.

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had to use their RMA process late 2013 with a GTX670 that went bad after about 2 weeks of use

 

their communication/updates is pretty terrible/non-existent, but that's common with most manufacturers. Their website's system will barely give you any description of your RMA status, and if you call in - you probably will get a clueless person that will put you on hold to 'check the status' that just comes back 30min later with nothing useful.

 

but they shipped me a brand new one back. so....they were satisfactory. a little over a week turnaround (I think about 2-3 days of that shipping time)

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I have an MSI H81m-P33. i love it because MSI lets me OC my pentium with an h81 chipset. :D

 

Oh yeah. the bios is nice too.

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MSI should just open its awesome teky porn industry. That's all what they deserve with their Chinese or Japanese sluts or whatever the shit is.

....I didn't know birds could also be trolls. 

 

Sometimes you shouldn't worry too much what people say, get that ROG board if you really want it, you're going to use it at the end of the day, not them. And for your question MSI is fine as are many other manufacturers, except for say foxxconn and lower which are questionable.

Hmm...I guess, but the MSI is cheaper and some people have said in reviews that their audio boards in their Hero's have been going bad. Foxxconn ironically made console motherboards for awhile. I'd imagine they're not horrible just not obviously a first pick. 

 

They're pretty good. Just don't use M-Flash or whatever it's called now.

M-Flash isn't so bad (though it still kind of is) it's more so Live Update 6 that I hear bad things about. 

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