ASUS board or MSI?

[henrypenton]

MSI Z77A-GD65
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/z77a-gd65.html#reviews

Or

Asus P8Z77 - V
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/90-mibhz0-g0eay0dz.html

What are people's views on these boards, trying to decide which I should get for my new i5 3570k.

 

[alvine]

go for asus, they offer great customer support based on my experience

 

[itzdanielp]

6 months ago I would have never suggested an ASRock board... But here I am...

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/z77extreme6.html

Same / similar quality as the Asus. Great support and more features than either board for the same price.

Or this one. Pretty much the same as both of the boards you linked. But less expensive.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel1155z77chipset/z77extreme4.html

Although if you are set on the first 2 choices I also would go with Asus. I've been burned by MSI before.

 

[henrypenton]

ASUS who I've been using for a while now, I just find them pretty much flawless when it comes to motherboards, and I used to have an ASrock board but it broke, but I've heard a lot about them becoming a much better company lately, will certainly consider between the ASUS and ASRock, thank you both

 

[alvine]

asus and asrock are my fav companies 😀 never had problems with either. with my asus mobo i blew a capacitor while overclocking and they processed my RMA without even asking what I did to it 😀

 

[Onus]

I agree with Alvine. MSI is way back on my list of mobo vendors, after Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, and maybe even Biostar.

 

[zcosmin]

I have ordered msi mpower motherboard, loads of excellent reviews,the motherboard had a CPU overclocked at 4.6GHz and had to run prime95 for 24hrs to check the stability, only msi does this the advantages are that no motherboard will be faulty