Yeah, readin recent reviews on Tigerdirect there's lots of bitches/issues with MSI boards but this one has been up for 8 months now without any problems so maybe I got lucky. It also seems like a common complaint is the fans on the MoBos for the Northbridge/Southbridge coolers but mine is passively cooled, though the new CPU cooler does a helluva job at keepin it all cooled pretty well now !

For my buddys system we recently built we went with an XFX MoBo and graphics card because of the issues with the MSI boards, especially since he wanted his stuff actively cooled. The XFXs had rave reviews and seem to be doin fine.

He had his 10yr old daughter over last weekend and it was her 1st chance to put his new system to a "gamers test". She was really excited about how well it performed the graphics tasks with awesome speed and how crisp the display was compared to his old Gateway system