The MSI MB's I have had of late shipped with a very annoying noisy on-board fan, they even flash! That went in the bin straight away

I only use Intel CPU's and Chipsets now, I think they are worth the extra for all the stress it saves me. A recent example is my Dad's PC, he wanted to scan in all his old 35mm film using a neg scanner, we tried everything to get it working, in the end it was the Via USB drivers being a total bag of s*?@e, swapped it for a nice Intel MB and it has worked 100% ever since

Cheers

Cris.