Beginning to see a trend with MSI motherboards...

[Tyrosen]

I have 5 computers at my house, big family. 3 of them are MSI motherboards...3 motherboards broke, all not posting. The other 2 Asus and Gigabyte, have yet to break, working perfectly. Is this just a coincidence, or is MSI quality control sh!t?

[givingtnt]

2 minutes ago, Tyrosen said:

I have 5 computers at my house, big family. 3 of them are MSI motherboards...3 motherboards broke, all not posting. The other 2 Asus and Gigabyte, have yet to break, working perfectly. Is this just a coincidence, or is MSI quality control sh!t?

my gd65 z97 still works well and never had any problems. 2+ years going strong.

[shadowbyte]

z97s sli krait running strong 1 year 2 months

[Julian5]

MSI z-170 a good and stronk after 2 months

[kirashi]

16 minutes ago, Tyrosen said:

I have 5 computers at my house, big family. 3 of them are MSI motherboards...3 motherboards broke, all not posting. The other 2 Asus and Gigabyte, have yet to break, working perfectly. Is this just a coincidence, or is MSI quality control sh!t?

You must have bad luck. I know of many older Gen 1 & 2 Intel MSI laptops corrupting their BIOS chips so they won't boot anymore, but not their Desktop Boards. I've built 4 systems in the past two years for myself and friends, all with MSI z87, z97, and z170 motherboards, and all are still working just fine.

[Napalm360]

2 minutes ago, kirashi said:

You must have bad luck. I know of many older Gen 1 & 2 Intel MSI laptops corrupting their BIOS chips so they won't boot anymore, but not their Desktop Boards. I've built 4 systems in the past two years for myself and friends, all with MSI z87, z97, and z170 motherboards, and all are still working just fine.

Didnt Jayztwocents not have problems with his msi x99 board in skunkworks update, wow msi has shit quality control

[Tyrosen]

3 minutes ago, Napalm360 said:

Didnt Jayztwocents not have problems with his msi x99 board in skunkworks update, wow msi has shit quality control

Actually, I bought the SAME mobo that broke on Jay too, the MSI Godlike Gaming Carbon for one of the builds, still trying for an RMA

[Napalm360]

1 minute ago, Tyrosen said:

Actually, I bought the SAME mobo that broke on Jay too, the MSI Godlike Gaming Carbon for one of the builds, still trying for an RMA

Wow thats bad luck. Good thing im not going with mai for my skylake rig

hope your rma goes smooth. Hate it when things dont work. 

 

[2FA]

It's subjective.

[Napalm360]

1 minute ago, Napalm360 said:

Wow thats bad luck. Good thing im not going with mai for my skylake rig

hope your rma goes smooth. Hate it when things dont work. 

 

If you dont mind. What asus boards are you using, im trying to find a good board for skylake

Edited October 5, 2016 by Napalm360

[Tyrosen]

Asus Maximus VIII Formula, its a pretty pricey board though

1 minute ago, Napalm360 said:

If you dont mind. Shat asus boards are you using, im trying to find a good board for skylake

 

[KenjiUmino]

had a lot of MSI boards for years and years and I can't complain - but I also have not built any new MSI based PCs for some years now so either you got bad luck or msi has started to get sloppy with their quality control

[Napalm360]

Just now, Tyrosen said:

Asus Maximus VIII Formula, its a pretty pricey board though

 

Yea im thinking about that, it was between that or the alpha or deluxe as im on the fence about colour scheming and want to maybe have green or red loop later on.

do you know of any good black z170 mobos,

i was thinking evga but idk 

thanks

[Tyrosen]

Just now, Napalm360 said:

Yea im thinking about that, it was between that or the alpha or deluxe as im on the fence about colour scheming and want to maybe have green or red loop later on.

do you know of any good black z170 mobos,

i was thinking evga but idk 

thanks

I heard good things about the EVGA FTW Z170. Also, Customer Support for EVGA is AMAZING, I can vouch for it

[Napalm360]

3 minutes ago, Tyrosen said:

I heard good things about the EVGA FTW Z170. Also, Customer Support for EVGA is AMAZING, I can vouch for it

Brilliant. As long as it can handle a 4.6-8ghz oc then sweet. 

Thanks for help and good luck, jave you considered the rog strix x99 gaming instead of carbon ?

[Praesi]

1 minute ago, Napalm360 said:

Brilliant. As long as it can handle a 4.6-8ghz oc then sweet. 

Thanks for help and good luck, jave you considered the rog strix x99 gaming instead of carbon ?

8ghz OC...ya right.

[Tyrosen]

1 minute ago, Praesi said:

8ghz OC...ya right.

100% sure he was referring to the second digit, so to clarify 4.6GHz - 4.8GHz

[JeJaRaLa]

msi b85i itx  1 year 6 month and working fine,

you  have nice  luck  or someting is wrong in your house...

[Napalm360]

23 hours ago, Tyrosen said:

100% sure he was referring to the second digit, so to clarify 4.6GHz - 4.8GHz

yes i meant 4.6 to 4.8ghz, some people

[Drak3]

On ‎10‎/‎5‎/‎2016 at 3:14 PM, Tyrosen said:

Actually, I bought the SAME mobo that broke on Jay too, the MSI Godlike Gaming Carbon for one of the builds, still trying for an RMA

Some early batches of Godlike Carbon boards had issues, but that's been sorted since. It's also something that happens to every manufacturer, and in my experience, ASUS is a far worse offender,  my local stores won't buy or sell anything with an ASUS mainboard or GFX card either.

I'm on my third MSI board, all three still work just fine. Only reason I upgraded was they are all different sockets, AM3+, FM2+, and 2011-3.

[KenjiUmino]

14 hours ago, Drak3 said:

ASUS is a far worse offender,  my local stores won't buy or sell anything with an ASUS mainboard or GFX card either.

I'm on my third MSI board, all three still work just fine. Only reason I upgraded was they are all different sockets, AM3+, FM2+, and 2011-3.

is it? really? I had the impression that asus was quality stuff - a guy I know who does IT for businesses pretty much deploys nothing else  - have a Q6600 running on a cheapo asus board for years myself wich also took some OC abuse in recent years and it did not fail yet 

 

most of my MSI boards also been AMD sockets but the older ones like 939 and AM2 - save for one trusty 775 board I used the hell out of

 

I just ordered a socket 1150 board to run a xeon on - so i will soon get to know how the newer MSI boards do and share any experience here.

[Sintezza]

Since Msi allways traditionaly cheaps out on quality of vital parts on allmost all of their motherboards.

I doesnt suprise me that much.

[Drak3]

40 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

is it? really? I had the impression that asus was quality stuff - a guy I know who does IT for businesses pretty much deploys nothing else  - have a Q6600 running on a cheapo asus board for years myself wich also took some OC abuse in recent years and it did not fail yet 

 

most of my MSI boards also been AMD sockets but the older ones like 939 and AM2 - save for one trusty 775 board I used the hell out of

 

I just ordered a socket 1150 board to run a xeon on - so i will soon get to know how the newer MSI boards do and share any experience here.

In my experience, yes, ASUS is the worst at quality insurance. The only thing they make that I'll trust are monitors, and mainly because most components in their monitors aren't actually made by them, but are just rebranded.

[KenjiUmino]

24 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

In my experience, yes, ASUS is the worst at quality insurance. 

can't be worse than ECS elitegroup - those guys sold me some crappy ass mainboards, I tell ya

 

are they still in business anyhow?

[Earnhardt]

Would rather buy an Asus than be given an MSI.