Suggestions for 1151 Motherboard ?

[OutCome]

At first i was thinking of getting the ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, then i realized it seems to be overpriced. Now i am looking at the MSI Gaming Z170A GAMING M5, and it seems fine, but i'm not sure. I have been looking at different motherboards for weeks now to no success.
Every single motherboard i seem to look at have 20%+ negative reviews.

I am just looking for a LGA 1151 motherboard for a i5 6600k. I'm trying to do a red/black, so please, no bright yellow ones 😛 I am planning on overclocking both my GPU and CPU. Going to buy a H100i, so i'm planning on overclocking moderately, i suppose.

Any and all help will be appreciated, thank you!

 

[amtseung]

I personally trust the living shit out of MSI products. I've owned/worked with 5 of their motherboards for 4 different socket types. Not a single one has failed me. On the flip side, I've had a 100% failure rate for every Asus product I've ever worked with, whether I bought it online or in store. I had a motherboard shoot itself in the foot a week after the initial store return period ended, and a Strix 980ti that arrived with a shattered fan straight from Asus, as an RMA replacement for another Strix 980ti, that had a large blemish on its backplate. Multiple motherboards, graphics cards, and mobile devices later, I've just given up on Asus products altogether.

With all that said, YMMV. My experiences do not sum up everyone's experiences.

 

[OutCome]

I personally trust the living shit out of MSI products. I've owned/worked with 5 of their motherboards for 4 different socket types. Not a single one has failed me. On the flip side, I've had a 100% failure rate for every Asus product I've ever worked with, whether I bought it online or in store. I had a motherboard shoot itself in the foot a week after the initial store return period ended, and a Strix 980ti that arrived with a shattered fan straight from Asus, as an RMA replacement for another Strix 980ti, that had a large blemish on its backplate. Multiple motherboards, graphics cards, and mobile devices later, I've just given up on Asus products altogether.

With all that said, YMMV. My experiences do not sum up everyone's experiences.

And that is the thing i hate about motherboards. Every brand is hated by someone, somewhere. Motherboards seem to be the part that fails the most (i'm guessing due to motherboards always having the lowest out of any other PC part).
I have never owned a MSI product, so i might just get the MSI mobo just to say that i have owned one Thanks for your input.

 

[amtseung]

Motherboards all across the board tend to have the highest failure rate out of all PC components in recent years, pun not intended. I don't want to say I dislike all Asus products, but I have lost trust in them as a company, especially after spending so much time fighting with their customer service for this many years. I don't hate their products (yet), I hate their customer service. There are people loyal to a brand to a fault. I was just listing the statistics behind my experience between those two companies' products. I've never had a Gigabyte or ASrock or ECS product in my hands before, so I have no data pool to work with there.

You're lucky with LGA1151. You have so many more options to choose from, and even cooler color schemes than LGA1150 boards. For colors alone, Gigabyte G1 and MSI Gaming series motherboards come to mind. Asus tends to like their grey/mustard yellow color scheme. Or is Gigabyte G1 black/orange? I can't remember.

 

[OutCome]

Motherboards all across the board tend to have the highest failure rate out of all PC components in recent years, pun not intended. I don't want to say I dislike all Asus products, but I have lost trust in them as a company, especially after spending so much time fighting with their customer service for this many years. I don't hate their products (yet), I hate their customer service. There are people loyal to a brand to a fault. I was just listing the statistics behind my experience between those two companies' products. I've never had a Gigabyte or ASrock or ECS product in my hands before, so I have no data pool to work with there.

You're lucky with LGA1151. You have so many more options to choose from, and even cooler color schemes than LGA1150 boards. For colors alone, Gigabyte G1 and MSI Gaming series motherboards come to mind. Asus tends to like their grey/mustard yellow color scheme. Or is Gigabyte G1 black/orange? I can't remember.

Yeah, the MSI Gaming m5 is growing on me. I really do love the look of it. Would go really nice with the red/black build i'm trying to do. The annoying thing is that i have a friend who has had 3 MSI boards which have all not worked correctly or have arrived DOA. He has used ASUS/Asrock boards ever since. You are the reverse, but the MSI is $45 less than the Asus board that i wanted, so whatever. I will probably get the MSI board due to being decently low in cost ($225 CAD) and is what i want. When i finally buy it next month, i guess all i can do is pray it doesn't arrive DOA or have a bunch of things go bad with it/ Thanks for your input on the matter, it has helped me choose Have a nice day.

 

[amtseung]

You're going to have a better rig than me soon. I'm jealous.
🙁

 

[Tradesman1]

Z170 is somewhat unique in that this is the first in a long time where you are getting a New mobo, new CPU, New DRAM, and (for most(new OS)...few are familiar with any of these prime components in the build so it's to be expected that there will be lots of negative reviews. I've number of builds on the Z170 Pro Gaming and their Hero from Asus, all the clients love theirs as I do mine (in sig)