Very few Isolated incidents, and no repeats on a BRAND spankin new board. Nonsense. You're a bit bias at best.
But it's not like it would hurt the OP to steer clear, just don't damage the name of a very solid motherboard manufacture while doing so next time.
MSI 890GXM G65 is a relatively new motherboard, and the three of us that had it blow had brand new boards. If you look at my posts on the other boards as well as the my review on Newegg, you'll see that I asked for people to post what revisions they had if they had my same model to see if improvements have been made.
You'll also see in my posts that I asked if anyone had a motherboard that was killed using a Phenom II X6, not if they had an MSI motherboard that was killed with a Phenom II X6. The majority of the responses were MSI board owners that did have a motherboard die, I didn't make those statistics up. It's still too early to tell, but I think the OP should know about the present data that's been collected and the possibility of there being a problem.
To quote myself:
"Please post your CPU, OC, if turbo was on, voltage, cooling, mobo (w/ revision), and symptoms:
I want to see if this is a Phenom II X6, MSI or some other trend going on (maybe Turbo Core ramping voltage up too high)."
How about doing a little reading before making your judgements. Also, if MSI wants to clear their name, no one's stopping them from coming into a "Formal MSI supported" thread and clearing any misconceptions up.
I really don't think your technical knowledge is all that good with blank statements like this either:
"You don't have to be picky over an AM3 motherboard..........
They all perform the same and very few boards in the AMD lineup have overclocking limitations these days. In the past ten years Gigabyte, Asus and MSI have been the leaders in features and price point. You can't go wrong with any of these names.............. I'd worry more about features. Perhaps a board with USB 3.0, Two PCI-X 16x slots, ect."
I love the part about that you can't go wrong with any of these names. Each of those manufacturers has had bad models in the past (especially the past 10 years). Knowing which particular models are good and which ones are bad or which minimum revisions to get is important. You contribute nothing worthwile to this thread.
