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MSI z87 Quality

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Psulover

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Looking at MSI products review on newegg, i notice there a lot of dead MB or faulty memory or sata ports doesn't work...etc. Is this a common problems with MSI on z87?

As for Asus, Gigabyte, the quality seems to be better. Should i risk it with MSI MB?
 
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I have had no issues with my MSI Z87 boards, I am on the MPOWER now and its a beast. I have not had any issues with any of my MSI boards that I did not cause (murder). I doing testing of MSI HW and that is about 30 boards over the last couple of years. Hardware itself is not all the exact same thing so there are issues with ANY part that could arise from any brand. The great thing is that if you were to ever have an issue and need support MSI is by far better than ASUS or GBT ;).
 
You have to take the DOA reviews with a grain or two of salt. I don't think any of the major players is any better or worse than any of the others on motherboards right now. If anything the number of DOA motherboard reviews on Newegg is a reflection of 1)Newegg's practices 2)Newegg's newb clientele.
 
Bluesun311 said:
You have to take the DOA reviews with a grain or two of salt. I don't think any of the major players is any better or worse than any of the others on motherboards right now. If anything the number of DOA motherboard reviews on Newegg is a reflection of 1)Newegg's practices 2)Newegg's newb clientele.
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That and folks are a lot less likely to give a positive review when everything's fine vs. a negative one when something goes bad.

Personally i'd almost rather have a DOA instead of one that dies 6 months in. DOA's are easier to deal with as one usually has a working computer they're upgrading from. one 6 months in leads to interesting problems. (like running on a moderately underpowered laptop plugged into everything and sitting on the floor)
 
I wound up with an MSI and it works fine so far.. I hope it continues to do so.. But when I was shopping, and reading reviews, you'd swear there was NO brand that wasn't crap. Every single board out long enough to have any kind of a base seemed to have posts with people screaming about how much Asus/MSI/Gigabyte sucked ass and they'd never buy from them again.

You just eventually have to dive in and take a chance, or you'll just get an ulcer. :p
 
UrielDagda said:
I wound up with an MSI and it works fine so far.. I hope it continues to do so.. But when I was shopping, and reading reviews, you'd swear there was NO brand that wasn't crap. Every single board out long enough to have any kind of a base seemed to have posts with people screaming about how much Asus/MSI/Gigabyte sucked ass and they'd never buy from them again.

You just eventually have to dive in and take a chance, or you'll just get an ulcer. :p
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Heh, yeah. The only brand i'd 100% not recommend is Asus though. Horrible tech support experience. Plenty of tales of folks getting back dead boards from an RMA (me included).
 
All products seem to suffer the same review fate online. If 3 out of 100 people buy a DOA board, they are going to post about it online, while maybe 4 or 5 of the 97 happy campers will bother posting a good review.

Hell, even a solid board series like ROG get their share of negative reviews. I've built MSI based PC's before and never had an issue.
 
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