X99 Mobo Reliability and Build Quality

[YBMatt]

I'm looking in the X99 motherboards with dual lan using the new Broadwell-E processors. What I'm more interested in is the reliability and build quality of the motherboard. I expect every single physical slot such as the audio jacks, lan, PCI-e slot, SATA, RAM, and any other slot to work straight out the box without an RMA on the first try.

I know Asus and Gigabyte are good with their QC (quality control) given the Z170 boards being put out without much problems. I haven't seen many websites going over from a statistical point of view the failure rate of a particular motherboard. I basing this assumption on reviews from Newegg and Amazon and not hardware review places. I believe manufactures want really good independent reviews so the reviewers (Youtubers, etc.) get a product specially selected from the production lines to have superior quality above the rest of the other motherboards translating to an award based on the merits of a fully functional model.

This thread doesn't have a question to solve, but an opinion to offer.

 

[MCID47]

Yeah, many manufacter across country, but people has a different choices. I'd like to chose and pick MSI board because it's offers high quality control without RMA in my first 2 years. My second choice is Gigabyte along with ASRock, both have another statisfaction about their product. Gigabyte already have their own fans and enthusiast, in other side, ASRock also have alot of advantages beside of their "cheapy" motherboards as well. The best way to pick motherboard if you weren't try or having the same product manufater is having a look at product review, if you see more positive reviews than negatives one, thus can be a good choice.