MSI, there's a brand you can't trust. I remember buying one of their video cards and one day smelling a burning coming from the computer. Followed the smell to their card and discovered that the fan was just spinning on plastic - no bearings, nothing. The centre had actually turned charcoal and black charcoal pieces fell off the card. Looking underneath the board it was burning into the actual board.

I removed the peeing on MSI logo nonsense. If you have comments overall on a company, then that is fine. However if you are that disrespectful then as far as I am concerned you should not be part of this website. E.g. please keep your posts respectful and decent.

I've had 2 x 7970 from MSI for 2 and a half years now, been rock solid since day 1. Might've been a bit dodgy a few years back, but now I think they hold up well.

MSI made products so poor they pose a serious fire hazard. Just like Apples batteries exploding except not as well known. I'll piss on their logo every chance I get, I didn't make that emicon but if kissy kissy to your suppliers is all you care about then ban me. I honestly thought you were better then sites like anandtech that fall clearly in that bracket. I've spoken to people who have had to sell and install their crap in the past and they agree with me. People don't come to your site for an okay and thumbs up from you. But I will add this issue to me list of grievances of dodgy websites, products and people of the IT industry. All you do is copy paste their ads. You are deleted off my favourites list of sites!

As a system builder, in the last 2 years or so I've used 10+ A75/78/85/88 chipset mainboards without any problems so far. Also used a few Gigabyte and Asus boards also without issue as well. I would steer clear of a certain board type of any maker if I did have a problem but wouldn't stop using the company because of it.