ASUS has the lowest fail rate of motherboard manufacturers. Oddly enough, MSI wasn't too far behind. At least, that was the case in 2013. Haven't seen rates for 2014, but it's probably similar.
The Asus board, ASUS makes better quality products than MSI, (had 2 MSI boards fail within a year, +2 MSI GPUs failing within 6 months) I bought ASUS and it is amazing, you know you're getting a quality product, with great features plus the great cus
ASUS has the lowest fail rate of motherboard manufacturers. Oddly enough, MSI wasn't too far behind. At least, that was the case in 2013. Haven't seen rates for 2014, but it's probably similar.
I have installed computers many many years and through my experience and found that in relation to the motherboards of the MSI in harsh conditions did not happen by any failures or problems, but ASUS mostly stalled due to lack of compatibility with memories or occurrence of shorts during the connected user to flash memory or disrupted suddenly, without warning.
The Z97 Hero is a great mobo, have been playing while waiting for the Z(& K models to be released, it OCs better than the Z87 (have that in sig), runs cooler and can handle even faster DRAM, I'm another that won't touch MSI due to their poor QC, I get more problem calls on their mobos than any two other manufacturers put together