(02-01-2015, 12:42 AM)Radion Wrote: I seriously don't get all the hate for msi here. Having a laptop and a gpu from them, I have no complaints whatsoever. Both run perfectly and I would recommend them to anyone else building a pc.
This is luck factor. I used MSI mobo- worked fine. I used 4x Asus Mobos, one died on first month, one still works after 10 years.
Mobo is quite irrelevant- I would just buy the cheapest that have good phase control and allows decent OC, especially since more then 1 GPU slot is idiotic in practice and the expensive ones have many GPU slots.
Nowadays seems that ASrock do quite well by offering cheap and good Mobos. On the other side ASUS have best Bios OC options. 4 things only are needed for good mobo- 12 phases- MUST in order to OC well, double bios, decent raid, and if possible decent audio. Just google around some tests and buy the cheapest that offer steady OC performance.