i like msi for awhile there to and abit before they went out of business also,but in gigabytes defense i was buying middle of the road gigabyte board and they were dieing, since ive went to asus i have only bought there high end boards and haven't had one die on me yet and generally no problem,but it could just be the whole "you get what you pay for" had i been buying top end gigabyte board i might very well still be using them=))