I pretty much sick with ASUS and AMD these days. I have been building systems regularly since '95, and the price point is right. MSI was a good "middle" of the road Mobo, but since ASUS decided to compete with the Middle tear, The "X" boards out priced MSI. I have never had anything good to say about ECS or Foxcomm or PC Partner Boards (even though I built a boatload of them for the "Cheapo" systems one store use to flog).NEVER get a board with "onboard" graphics- way too many returns with those.