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[LordJerle]

http://magicmicro.com is a good site too.  Decent pricing, quick response time on customer support.

[Rabblerouser]

From my experience, the "proactive" virus protection softwares not only slow your net down, but also your computer.

 

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to dive into my websites without protection.

And of course run a weekly scan with MBAM. I don't usually go to shady websites. In fact, the websites I already go to and trust keep me busy enough that I don't need to seek others out.

 

 

As for your issue, it sounds more like you don't like the tech support.

[cretin]

Well, I'm over my USB 3.0 woes, which turned out to be an incorrect Intel driver kit, and this msi mpower has been solid for me for a while now.  I've got my 4770K running at a stable 4.7GHz as well on an H100 cooler, which is just about the top end of what people have been able to pull from it, so it's a champ there as well.

 

No idea how their lower-tier MBs are, but this so-called "military spec" board is just fine at the moment.

 

I've got a PCIE soundcard though, so I'm not suffering through the Realtek crap drivers any more.  Now it's the Creative crap drivers.  

 

[Ryuken]

Because you had a problem with one of their product does not mean that they make bad products, having mounted too many PC to count MSI motherboards usually proved quite reliable and I had far more problems with ASUS ones.

 

Thus said I wont say to anyone to avoid ASUS motherboard even if I will do so myself, many users are very happy with their ASUS motherboards and many others with their MSI motherboards.

 

Hardware and drivers problems are inherent to PCs because when you buy a motherboard you dont buy only one brand but many, the chipset is either made by Intel or AMD, the sound and the ethernet by Realtek, the USB by another manufacturer and so on..... Actually before buying a motherboard you should first look at its specification and search for each major component to see if they have proven reliable or not, but I understand it is a lot of assle for the normal user. 

 

I've had just the opposite experience. In my few personal builds I've had the MSI board always crap out given time. ASUS boards have been reliable as all get-out, from cheap $150 boards to my current Maximus Formula board.

 

My buddy builds and repairs PCs for a living and he's worked on probably at least a thousand systems and he'd tell you the same. Some of the software and/or firmware I've had issues with, but as far as hardware goes, ASUS has been like the Toyota of mobo manufacturers to me. Maybe not the most exciting, but definitely reliable.

[Guest carywinton]

@ varenne,

If you need some help and advice on a good system build and part, etc. I would be happy to assist you, I can also drop ship any parts to you at a very reasonable cost. I have been running my own companies in the IT Consulting field for nearly 15 years and have been in the computer filed for over 20 years. I service, repair and build systems for a living and have seen or worked with just about every hardware vendor that exists. I deal directly with the wholesale vendors, you know the ones that supply Newegg, TigerDirect, etc. So my prices would be quite favorable to you. I run a full Network hosting facilty here, Web servers, email servers, game server, etc. So, hardware longevity and reliability are extremely important to me.

My current gaming PC is as follows, Asus Evo MB , 16GB DDR3 Ram, (2) ATI HD 5770 GDDR5 video cards (Sapphire) ,  AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, built into a gorgeous Coolermaster AMD Dragon Limited Edition case, Ultra 700 power supply and nearly 10TB of storage, yes I have a boat load of hard drives, My drive letters almost go to "Z". lol

I steer clear of Intel due to two factors, a couple of years ago I had 3 of my rack systems based on Intel all die within a 6 week period, and cost per performance ratio , you get far more bang for your buck with AMD and I have found the longevity to be , in most cases better.

 

BTW my total cost for this system was $800.

[lordofthedread]

UEFI is not the root of the problem as far as I know and it equips any modern MB anyway,

 

I have 3 computers (and mounted countless ones) with UEFI bios and no problems whatsoever, Gygabyte motherboards btw.

[BigOnes69]

Back in the 90s when I had my computer store and could make money. Installing great numbers of hardware. All of the manufacturers had a flaky model of MB come out at some point. You usually could find on the internet the percentage base for returns and failures and avoid those manufacturers and or products.  There used to be websites that posted these kind of statistics. I have not been in the bus for awhile now so do not know. I depend on buyer reviews for those type of purchases. Usually when a current product drops in price by a lot they have one of these type of problems so i research them even more. All of the Chinese, Taiwan manufacturers dip in and out of favor. MSI, Giga-byte, Asus, Acer have had problem products. Their engineers are better with certain chip sets and they lead the industry when using those chip sets and or processors. Back then Giga Byte and Asus did better with AMD processors and chipsets and the others did better with INtel. All of that could have changed since then . Processors and video cards are the same. The same line can have one model that can have problems even though the models above and below it work excellent. Bottom line is i would review product purchases through several review sites before purchase of all PC parts specially MBs, Video cards and processors. A lot of times a product will drop in price becuase of a problem and the research sites post a simple fix and you get a great deal. I tend to do the latter and save a lot of money on upgrades.

[Guest]

Why are you using a wireless keyboard and mouse? They only eat batteries without achieving anything special, unless you want to sit several meters away from your screen, in which case I don't understand you at all.

 

As to your problem. Do you even need a driver to reach max download speed? Sounds strange to me. Anyway, if you can afford 3 PCs, you can afford a new MB. Just throw the shit in the bin.