What does everyone think of MSI boards. I here their not very good? While your here whats your favourite mother board maker and why? Merry christmas
well there cheap boards and ive had 2 which have failed on me i like all motherboards(with the excetopnion of pcchips and there other makes) i dont really have a favorite
MSI are OK. I've had a KT133a board of theirs for a while now. Still runs like a champ with my 1Ghz Athlon. They're cheap and work, for the most part. I wouldn't build a server with one though. My recomendation for a brand would have to be Asus. They have a great reputation for being ultra reliable and stable. Go with an Asus A7N8X and you'll be very happy.
I have an MSI board and have had no problems with it so far. Two really good things about them are they look cool (mine is red!) and they are cheap. I'd recommend one.
gigabytes are good, been using them for years (since 200mhz was top of the line!) and havent had a bad one. and they make bloo ones
I have found MSI to be alright, seen a few dodgy efforts (notably on S423 P4 board with a lot of components that weren't soldered on very well at all, very loose) but generally pretty stable, if not the overclockers choice.... Abit - Had bad experiences, seen them blow caps, slightly dodgy reliability long term from the ones I've seen (6 of one batch of 10 KT7As sold at the shop I used to were RMA'd within 6 months), but I know others have had positive experiences with Abit (where as I've probably seen a few bad batches) so I certainly wouldn't rule them out, though I'd look carefully into what other boards were available. Excellent overclocking options on pretty much all recent Abit boards. Asus - My personal favourite, not really the overclockers first choice, but supremely stable and reliable from my experience. Rather expensive though but most of the time you really do get what you pay for...quality. The A7V was the only really buggy and troublesome board from Asus I can remember, but a lot of its deficiences were remedied with the A7V133. Gigabyte - Cheap and cheerful, with pretty good quality from my experience, though often with very little in the way of overclocking options. Pretty good overall Epox - In my experience boards from this company seem to range from total crap (8kHa+) to excellent (8kta3 and 8k7a+), but being a relatively new company this is to be expected. Excellent when they work but quality control seems a bit suspect at times on some of the boards I've used. Wobbly capacitors and iffy soldering and the like.
Been building PC's for ages, so heres my 2 cents :- 1) gigabyte - ok but not quickest boards around - love dual-bios option, only killed 1 in 6 years (got DX7 board in my PC). 2) Abit - good overclocking can be fussy what you plug into it, quality seems erratic, killed 2 in 2 weeks - went back to (1). 3) Asus - pricey, except for A7V good overall. 4) MSI - get what you pay for cheep and cheerful - dont buy first revision boards, wait until been out for a while. 5) Pc-chips - cheap and nasty only fit for kids/parents pc for net access. 6) Albaton - looks good so far, can be hard to get hold of. 7) Shuttle - make nice mini PC's (got a sv25 for ftp-server) not fast but cute 8) Via epia - cool mini-itx boards, dead slow but good for that special project... www.mini-itx.com - LOL
im running a chaintech at the moment. no problems with it. its actually a very nice board and the driver/bios support is very good. i would have no worries buying another one.
I had a MSI K7T board. It was great except when i tried overclocking, fried the board . But that was my fault, everyday i regret for trying to overclock cause now i got thise crappy BioStar mobo wich sux0rs
I'm running an XP1700+ on an MSI 6380 Pro2 RU and I've found the board to be nothing but reliable. Considering all the extras you get with these boards as well (2xUSB1.1 4xUSB2.0, smart key & MSI LED) you are getting a pretty good deal. I have known people to OC with this board and while the extreme features are lacking what the board does presnt is stability. <incert I LOVE MSI banner here> + its red man!!!
