Pros: -Good inexpensive mATX motherboard.
- usb 3.0

Cons: Can't get into bios without fully clearing CMOS. You need to short the jumpers just below the battery for the prompt to show up.

Pros: none

Cons: At first there were only bios problems where the bios saves the settings but the settings didnt actually reflect what was saved in the bios. Recently i tried to run the division on this mobo the caps around the south bridge blew up.

Other Thoughts: this was the first time buying msi instead of asus and i think i will stick with asus from now on, at least i know asus mobos work and wont blow up when i try to play high end games without even overclocking anything.

Pros: Was fast when it was working but always had some funny things happening. Blue screen of death at least once a month.

Cons: Unreliable

Other Thoughts: -

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Karel,
Sorry to hear about the issue you reported. Before considering an RMA can you check following steps below since many reasons can cause the situation like this ,
1. Check and make sure that power are connected firmly, clear CMOS.
2. Check your other major hardware’s (memory, video card, CPU and power supply) to ensure that they are not the cause of the issue.
3. If possible do a clean install of window and update drivers/BIOS on motherboard for best results. www.MSI.com
4. If you need further assistant, please feel free to contact our technical support department directly at 626.271.1004 from M to F, 9am to 6pm Pacific standard Time.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

Pros: Pretty good. It doesn't support Windows 8 or higher.

Cons: Really good motherboard for beginners in my opinion

Other Thoughts: The SATA ports are in a bad spot l. I put in my 970 GPU and I couldn't plug any of the SATA ports in. Had to plug in SATA before the card

Pros: Great fan speed control. The fan speed changes very gradually with increasing heat.

Cons: I would rather have another PCIe slot instead of the PCI. There are very few slots, so it does not make sense to allocate 1/3 just for backward compatibility.

Pros: None

Cons: First one was DOA. Second one lasted about a month before going bad.

Other Thoughts: I will not ever purchase another MSI board again!

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valuable Customer
Sorry to hear about the issue you reported. Before considering an RMA can you check following steps below since many reasons can cause the situation like this ,
1. Check and make sure that power are connected firmly, clear CMOS.
2. Check your other major hardware’s (memory, video card, CPU and power supply) to ensure that they are not the cause of the issue.
3. If possible test the motherboard outside of the case to eliminate any possible grounding issue.
4. If you need further assistant, please feel free to contact our technical support department directly at 626.271.1004 from M to F, 9am to 6pm Pacific standard Time.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

Pros: Works

Cons: I bought this because it has 2 6gb ports. Plug in my 6gb hdd. Nope, does work. 3gb ports work just fine. Oh and no real manual for this thing. I wouldnt know if i was doing anything wrong cause the manual sucks, it about 10'pages long in about 50 different languages. Making it look like its a good manual. Not happy. But it works nonetheless. Your judgement call.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,
Thank you for the feedback. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the product, suggestions for improvement for us, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at usreview@msi.com and we will be more than happy to assist you, thank you.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

Pros: Works well. Good solid board. I have an AMD Callisto 550 processor in it now, plan on using an FX 4350 Later on. At 3.2 GHZ, this MB and proc combo works well and does not heat up badly as others have noted. Everything seems to work . The onboard Radeon 3000 graphics puts out good quality images on my monitor (VGA). I set it up using 1024 mb of memory and it's still a fast computer. The fast USb and Fast SATA work well. For an inexpensive motherboard, I'm very pleased with it.

Cons: This is just a mild gripe, but the BIOS is a little archaic, but works well. I could not get the BIOS to start at first, but by using a jumper on the cmos pins, I soon had it up and running well. Removing the CMOS battery and putting it back didn't help.As soon as I removed the jumper, I got it right into Bios and then the OS booted. No hiccups since then.

Other Thoughts: If you are looking for a good little inexpensive motherboard for a build that is fun and runs a lot of programs well, then you ought to look at this one. Just because the chipsets and BIOS are " so last thursday" doesn't mean it won't perform well.

Pros: Now that I finally got this board working it is pretty good. I spent about 12 hours doing research to try to get this board running. Turns out the board didn't come with a USB Pin Cover. I had to use a pin cover from my old mobo and once I put that on the pins it booted right up!

Cons: My graphics card covers up 1/2 of my SATA slots. other than that nothing

Other Thoughts: I give 4 eggs because of the board not coming with that pin i needed and it gave me a head ache to fix.

Pros: Very good quality hardware. Default BIOS settings are near perfect, but I did enable Quiet-and-Cool and Core-Unlock. +1 for having a BIOS and not UEFI as I run Slackware Linux and UEFI has been very disappointing as a replacement for the standard BIOS.

Cons: Not enough to knock off any eggs but I did have a few gripes that could be improved upon.

1. The BIOS settings for some options are not listed or described well. I had to reset my BIOS after a setting prevented the system from actually powering on.

2. Updating the BIOS is rather problematic. Some manufacturers allow updates within the OS, but this one does not, and I'm unsure how to do this. There is an update, but there's very little documentation on how to use the update at all.

3. The AMD Core Unlock software could be updated to run on various Windows platforms. I run Server 2012 R2 (mostly due to it being a freebie from my college) rather than standard Windows and it doesn't work for me. Not that I need it, but it would be nice to know if my Quad-Core AMD FX has any extra capabilities.

The video chip support by AMD is abysmal. The Radeon HD 3000 drivers are severely limited and the latest drivers have lots of unresolved bugs and are limited to Windows 7/8 officially only. The OpenGL support is so bad, none of my OpenGL apps would even run on the Radeon HD 3000.

Microsoft has Windows 10 drivers but I haven't been able to test them to see if they work at all. Windows 8.1 is barely supported at all. AMD is completely inept at proper hardware support and reliable drivers are nonexistent. Get an Nvidia GPU to pair up with this board or you'll regret it. In contrast, the Linux and Xorg support for the GPU is spot on and out of the box, this is a wonderful system for Slackware Linux.

MSI, you should rethink using AMD graphics and use Nvidia instead. Better drivers and better support overall. Radeons are just trash.

Other Thoughts: I love the fact this is a modern motherboard with a standard BIOS, and not UEFI which is still very non-standardized even among other vendors, and super problematic with alternative operating systems. I wish more vendors had stuck to, and sold, more BIOS based motherboards rather than UEFI.

Many UEFI systems still have glitches and other issues due to there being no real uniform standardization other than the loose-knit specifications presented by Microsoft. Plus, it was EXTREMELY nice to migrate a Linux based install from one PC to another without reformatting the drive, losing data, all just to accommodate UEFI. For that, MSI, you have my eternal thanks.