mathman opened this issue on Feb 05, 2009 · 12 posts
svdl posted Sat, 07 February 2009 at 9:15 AM
MSI used to be quite good. I had an Athlon 1400 system on an MSI mainboard that lasted for 7 years. The last 3 of those 7 years the system was a server, always on.
Lately MSI is more troublesome. I've had to return a couple of mainboards. According to my supplier (who carries MSI, Abit, Asus, Foxconn, Intel, Gigabyte, Asrock, and Tyan), Gigabyte boards are the most reliable consumer boards these days. ASUS, Foxconn and Abit are middle of the road, MSI and Asrock are returned quite often. Intel is better than average, but not very popular. Tyan is great, but very expensive, and those are server boards, not consumer boards.
Thanks for the tip about Antec server cases.
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