ADVICE! HELP! $450 WHAT TO GET?!

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

I'm a big MSI fan as of the last couple of years - they're just churning out some damn good motherboards. I did kill one in the past accidentally gouging the motherboard when removing the backplate, but the online easy RMA process had a replacement in my hands in a couple of weeks.

On the same note, the RMA replacement in Canada used to be a pain. It was fixed after my RMA. I helped them debug their script.
Something bad about MSI though is the BIOS for enthusiast boards. They take a while to churn out new versions with fixes. Asus is not any better though, but it's a pain when you have a board with a small bug that probably could easily be fixed by someone with little knowledge in BIOS programming.

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

I'm a big MSI fan as of the last couple of years - they're just churning out some damn good motherboards. I did kill one in the past accidentally gouging the motherboard when removing the backplate, but the online easy RMA process had a replacement in my hands in a couple of weeks.

Ditto. One of my friends that used to post on MPC (neel360, he joined here too and did nothing lol) picked up an MSI board and I was very impressed. I didn't hear much about it, but MSI, ECS, and Asus top my list (in that order).