How are MSI motherboards?

I have used a few MSI Motherboards and graphics cards and they have all been great. Ditto with my friends. My latest are the Tomahawk X570 and X650E, both brilliant and you can do what ever you want with undervolting and timings. Rock solid.
 
MSI are currrently doing a cashback promotion on various motherboards, power supplies, pc cases and liquid coolers.

Motherboards included are Intel Z790, Intel B760, AMD X670E and AMD B650 chipsets. Link here: https://uk.msi.com/Promotion/gearupgetcashback

Promotion Period: 22/08/2023 - 19/11/2023
Redemption Period: 05/09/2023 - 17/12/2023
*All products must be claimed after 14 days of your purchased date

£30 cashback off the MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI is pretty decent imo.
 
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Ive been running a b550m mag mortar wifi (or whatever, ridiculous names) and it’s ran fine. The bios menu is pretty decent, all in all a good board and wouldn’t have any real hesitation in buying MSI boards in future. My only slight gripe is the built in WiFi is a bit ropey, which isn’t a big deal for the most part as i use powerline adapters and ethernet. But on the odd occasion where i might need to use it, it’s annoying.
 
I was using Asus for ages, after endless issues with Gigabyte. When I moved to Intel, 1200 series, MSI had all the resources that I wanted at a price I was happy with. Tomahawk was a very solid motherboard. Went with the Edge when DDR5 was reasonably priced. When moved to AM5, went with Asus as their price was slightly better. Not a single issue with the motherboard, but I do miss MSI. The software was less inflated, and the BIOS easier to navigate. MSI also uses a much better thermalpad in most of their motherboards. My Asus, the PCH would be mid 50s to 60C idling. Up to mid 60s during game, as the GPU will dump a lot of heat around itself. Replaced the thermalpad from the PCH with Gelid Extreme (Ultimate is supposed to be better but is a bit crumbly, I don’t like to use it), now PCH mid 40s, max low 50s during gaming sessions. The NVME saw about 10C drop too. That wouldn’t be necessary if Asus didn’t use some cheap ass thermalpad. Repasted and new thermalpads on my 4080 TUF, about 3C down Core, but hotspot was nearly 30C delta. Now is between 7 and 10C.
Personally I would choose MSI if reasonably priced. Had a Suprim 3080 and was very well build, and very cool, for a 3080
 
I've had 4 MSI boards between myself and PCs I've built for mates/family and they've never let me down so far. Bios is usually ok, my main is a gigabyte and also never had an issue. MSI rma process for some of their stuff eg GPU is also reasonable
 
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