Re: Motherboard selection
I am using an Asus Sabertooth Mark 2 Z97 an it is way better than any of the MSI Gaming 5-7 motherboards. Most of the MSI product are made up of cheap quality and you can just tell by the feel, mostly the components on the mobo are nothing above average. Take a look at the GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-OC LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS which is also a very good mobo.
Re: Motherboard selection
I was using ASUS Z87 Pro mobo and It got damaged in just 5 days.
I have heard that ASUS mobo quality is not up to the mark and their service centre sucks, refused to take back and replace the new mobo.
ASUS SUCKS.
MSI is good in quality, the sound quality is awesome and better than ASUS and the service centre is better than ASUS. No doubt ASUS mobos r good in past but it seems they have lost their way now....
I have ordered MSI Z97 Gaming 7 along with MSI R9 280X 3GB gaming GPU.
This GPU has compatibility issues even though it was in the list of compatible components on ASUS website.
I have also observed that many people are complain of bent pins in the motherboad.