MSI motherboards

[Lord Alibaski]

Just a question regarding MSI boards I haven't purchased one since the K7N2 delta with he old Athlon 3200+. I just remember this board being a decent board for its time things seemed much quicker on this board than others at that time.

So jump forward is it 23 years! since then how do MSI compare now. I've been a gigabyte fan for the last 15 years tried to stay away from Asus never liked their RMA process but would still consider using them . Never been an Asrock fan so I would just want to know how MSI compare to Asus and Gigabyte for reliability, rma and speed in 2025.

Currently still on a Gigabyte x58 ud7 with a xeon X5675, so looking to upgrade this year sometime. Will worry about what board I need when I know how much the wife is going to let me spend on a new PC.

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[Lord Alibaski]

Looks like Asus hasn't done well then, think the last ATX Asus board I had was the P5B Deluxe which was ok. I still have a mini itx Asus with the amd 5350 running kodi and it's been crap since the day it was purchased. This isn't the reason I am staying away from them it's the constant topics on this board about their RMA that's put me off so it looks like I will give MSI another chance.

 

[Lord Alibaski]

Out of curiosity what board are you going for?
Might help having a second pair of eyes on it

I don't know which one yet but I will be getting a 9550x later this year. I don't game I just want a new CPU for encoding (CPU encoding not GPU) that will last me for many years, this xeon is past it's sell buy date. I just wanted to know if MSI have improved over the years and it sounds like they have. I will probably have a budget of about £300 for the board not really wanting to spend more than that on a board.

Nice info there Tetras will have a look into what you've said the closer it comes to me buying.

Looking at the boards now I would go a bit higher I do like these

Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite

Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite​

MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk​

 

[Lord Alibaski]

I forgot about this I did a shopping list the other day and the Gigabyte board is one I had in the basket.

 

[Lord Alibaski]

I do a lot of VHS capturing and recording, won't be on this PC that's done on a old Windows XP PC. Then I do a lot of cleaning up of these recordings and then I encode using several different software's and this is very time consuming sometimes I leave them going all night doing a 2 pass using Staxrip for my end results.

I think doing GPU encoding is a bit pointless when you have a good CPU so saving money on a GPU will help me spend a bit more money on a decent board.

 

[Lord Alibaski]

Finally watched that video left me feeling MSI or Gigabyte is the way to go but still made it hard to choose which board lol

I do like both MSI x870 and e MAG versions.