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I've been keeping up with MSI products, and overall I think MSI have become one of the best brands out there for PC parts.

After building my rig with 0 issues and the ease of use on parts as well as the quality I cannot be happier. I think MSI has really stepped up their game in these past years.

This is just me, have you guys ever had bad experiences with them?

Thoughts?

 

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Fucking great mobos

 

One of them survived being thrown 9 feet in the air on concrete

Wow. I have an Mpower Max AC Z97 and have no complaints whatsoever.

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Fucking great mobos

 

One of them survived being thrown 9 feet in the air on concrete

For intel yes, AMD no.

 

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Their laptops and GPUs are pretty good. Their mobos have been nothing but trouble for me though.

 

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They look good, perform good. I dont really have any critisism.

 

I have a MSI GTX 970, and am looking at a MSI Z97M gaming intel LGA1150 Z97 Micro ATX Motherboard.

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0 problems with my MSI products, nice BIOS, reliable, nothing wrong at all. Very affordable too. Certainly recommended. 

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Yeah, they make good stuff. Big fan of their GPU designs (despite never owning one).

They also make good motherboards (have never had a recent one of them, but my dad still has an AM2 motherboard from them which works great still!

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I had a MSI AM3+ mobo, (970a-G43) and it gave me so many problems, the version WITH the VRM cooler was over $20 more at the time, and the board was very low quality for $70

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10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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great laptops and great motherboard.

from experience !

 

 

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MSI? Who's idea was it to call a card "lightning", give it it a light up "lightning" logo, and make it black and yellow. That ticks my box for "sounds great" and "looks great". After that, the excellent cooling on that 980 Ti seems like an afterthought. Also, great motherboards.

MSI are one of my favourite hardware brands.

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I have the xPOWER AC X99 and absolutely love it!  I haven't utilized all the features of it, but the ease of Overclocking is great.

CPU: i7 - 5930k  GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti  MOBO: MSI XPower AC X99 RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB  Boot Drive: M.2 SM951 512GB Storage: 850 Pro 1TB SSD PSU: EVGA 1000W Case: TT Core X9 CPU Cooler: Cryorig R1 Ultimate Case Fans: 2x Cooler Master 200mm Fan, 5x Cougar Vortex 120mm, 4x Be quiet! Pure Wings 140mm Peripherals: Corsair K70 and G5 Mouse

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They've had some snafus in the past (A LONG Time ago), but they make some rock solid stuff now. 

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i have a MSI 970 and i love it so silent and good overclocker but i had an MIS motherboard and it's audio dies in a month so not a fan of that 

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I had a MSI AM3+ mobo, (970a-G43) and it gave me so many problems, the version WITH the VRM cooler was over $20 more at the time, and the board was very low quality for $70

I got the 970a-g43 for 40$.

It's not good.

MSI is good with Intel boards, not amd

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I have had no problems with MSI products. Then again, I have never owned any MSI products.

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guys, this thread was a week dead

Different PCPartPickers for different countries:

UK-----Italy----Canada-----Spain-----Germany-----Austrailia-----New Zealand-----'Murica-----France-----India

 

10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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MSI is a great manufacturer.

 

And those who have been having AMD issues I think that is just your luck, I'm running a AMD MSI rig and I've never had any issues.  

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