MSI Motherboard's

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What is everyones opinions on this manufacturer.

The reason why I'm asking is because quite a few people don't seem very keen on them, they seem to say the same things like DOA or failed after a few months.

I've had numerous MSI boards for Intel and AMD (not had much to do with their graphics cards) and they've been absolutely perfect, am I really lucky in my experiences or have these people unlucky and have had a few that have failed?

[anfor68]

the first PCIe slot doesn't work on my MSI Z77A-GD55 board

I probably had bad luck with it, but who knows. they might actually put the failed ones on the market and see who gets them

[xAlphaStick]

My MPOWER works flawlessly and is awesome. I highly reccomend MSi

[dep2ks]

I have a MSI Z77-G43 motherboard running a small overclock on my i5-3570k @ 3.8 and a MSI Geforce 660 both work really well never had any issues with and MSI motherboard or graphic card.

[exousia7]

I'm using MSI ZH77A-G43 motherboard, working perfectly fine.

[airdeano]

electronics in a shell is all a crap-shoot.

50-50 chance on getting a non-issue part. what the best part is waiting

for support and is that manufacturer good at it? all of them have bad raps

for poor CS, but the good creds never are published..

from a budget board, the MSI and giggy have a good stake in that department.

mid-range, that'd be MSI and Asus

enthuisasts use, Asus Maximus, MSI Mpower, and giggy UP7.

having the GD55/65/MPower I think they are great for the money paid for them.

i recommend them when I can.

its electronics.. you are going to have failures.. is it your turn to have one of them?

airdeano

[ericlee30]

I have the MSI Mpower board, It is a great board and I have had zero problems with it. I have had it since it first came out.

[Eric1024]

Buddy of mine has an m-power with a 2700k and a 7970 in it and it purrs like a kitten, no issues at all.

I think just by human nature people with bad experiences are MUCH more likely to say something about that product than people with good experiences. I mean if you go on newegg, there are plenty of products from big name companies that only have 50 or so reviews and it has 3 'eggs' or maybe even 2. Does that mean it's a bad product? Not necessarily.

If a product only has 50 reviews, chances are that at least 10x as many of that item have been sold, if not 100x as many or more. That means that a product with 50 reviews and only 2 stars could really just mean that 25-30 people had a bad experience with a product but another 1000 or more had no problems at all.

That and if you actually read reviews customer reviews, a painful majority of them are fairly incompetent. Generally it's a good idea to glance at customer reviews, but I would NEVER base a purchase off of them.

[Eric1024]

Buddy of mine has an m-power with a 2700k and a 7970 in it and it purrs like a kitten, no issues at all.

I think just by human nature people with bad experiences are MUCH more likely to say something about that product than people with good experiences. I mean if you go on newegg, there are plenty of products from big name companies that only have 50 or so reviews and it has 3 'eggs' or maybe even 2. Does that mean it's a bad product? Not necessarily.

If a product only has 50 reviews, chances are that at least 10x as many of that item have been sold, if not 100x as many or more. That means that a product with 50 reviews and only 2 stars could really just mean that 25-30 people had a bad experience with a product but another 1000 or more had no problems at all.

That and if you actually read reviews customer reviews, a painful majority of them are fairly incompetent. Generally it's a good idea to glance at customer reviews, but I would NEVER base a purchase off of them.

Linus and Slick actually touched on this durring friday's live stream in respect to products from Razer. I don't know at exactly what point in the live stream but there point was basically that for most products, bad reviews are a VERY vocal minority. If people get a faulty product, they're PISSED and rant about it on the internet.

[unidentical]

I've had a few MSI boards, never any issues, currently running an MPower and it is lovely.

I would agree with the point about bad reviews coming from a vocal minority.

Computer nerds are a vindictive lot. My first PSU was an OCZ modstream and it popped on the first boot. it took me about a decade to buy another OCZ product.

The simple fact is you have to look at trends, not everyone who has a positive experience is going to write a review but most people who have negative experiences will, and they will be livid about it. There are always going to be defective products, but if you see something with 25 positive reviews and only one negative review, that's a pretty good bet.

[Duffman]

I can definitely vouch for the MSI Z77 MPOWER excellent board.

[Duffman]

I've had a few MSI boards, never any issues, currently running an MPower and it is lovely.

I would agree with the point about bad reviews coming from a vocal minority.

Computer nerds are a vindictive lot. My first PSU was an OCZ modstream and it popped on the first boot. it took me about a decade to buy another OCZ product.

The simple fact is you have to look at trends, not everyone who has a positive experience is going to write a review but most people who have negative experiences will, and they will be livid about it. There are always going to be defective products, but if you see something with 25 positive reviews and only one negative review, that's a pretty good bet.

Hey i notice you have the MSI 660ti PE twin frozr, how noticeable is the brown PCB of the card?

[Glenwing]

MSI is pretty well reputed. Any given motherboard will have its fair share of DOA reviews or my LAN doesn't work or my board doesn't post and whatnot. If it doesn't work for someone, you can pretty much be guaranteed they will take time out of their day to give it a 1-star review. Meanwhile for every 5-star review it probably represents 10-20+ people who had no problems and weren't bothered to write a review just to say it does exactly what it's supposed to.

[Deeko]

MSI Z77 MPOWER , great Motherboard

[unidentical]

I've had a few MSI boards, never any issues, currently running an MPower and it is lovely.

I would agree with the point about bad reviews coming from a vocal minority.

Computer nerds are a vindictive lot. My first PSU was an OCZ modstream and it popped on the first boot. it took me about a decade to buy another OCZ product.

The simple fact is you have to look at trends, not everyone who has a positive experience is going to write a review but most people who have negative experiences will, and they will be livid about it. There are always going to be defective products, but if you see something with 25 positive reviews and only one negative review, that's a pretty good bet.

Actually it's the 670, not sure if there's a difference in PCB colour. I don't specifically recall noticing a colour issue. at any rate if the 670 and the 660ti shre the same PCB material than I would say the colour doesn't detract from the look one bit.

[joelthezombie15]

people that are unhappy make alot more noise than those that are happy i love msi one of my favorite parts is that they are military class componente

[mgsstar]

Just because that people to DOA or failing after a few weeks doesn't mean that the brand is bad. They just probably got unlucky and decided to go all angry at the review and people who enjoy them enjoy them so good that they forget the write the review. :) You got to try these products personally imo in order to see how good their products are.

[fishymamba]

I got a MSI P67-GD55 for my first build, worked for 6 months until I flashed the BIOS and bricked the motherboard, not really the mobo's fault, but MSI replaced it for me.

They sent out the replacement in just the motherboard box without any protection and the replacement I got was broken.

I got the replacement RMAd and the next one I got worked perfectly.

But I just got a high end intel motherboard, so I am using that now instead of the MSI. I am keeping the MSI as a back up or in case I want to build a cheap server/NAS in the future.

Overall I would say it was a great motherboard, I was able to overclock my i7 2700K to 4.8Ghz on it! And it only cost $115(+8GB free RAM)!

I also got one of their Micro ITX mobs while I was waiting for the replacement. It was a MSI H61M-W33(W8).

Worked great! Can overclock with it, but for only $50 it makes an awesome HTPC motherboard or just a standard motherboard for those who don't have an interest in high end features.

[Metman2PSU]

I have had 0 problems with my FM2-A75MA-E35 board so far.  And I have had other MSI motherboards and products with no issues in the past as well.