indid you didnt say that but there are alot of ways to say everything and it just sounded like it although you didnt use those exact words , anyway thats what i meant you think it have "bad reputation" just cuz of a few cases which might not even be the mobos fault also alot of mobo *glitches* are usally fixed on bios updates , all hard drives fail from all manufactureres and you always see a this died here and this there and i had it for X time threads. does that mean all hard drive manufacureres have"bad reputation" ? no it only means things happen , and even the other "reputable manufacturers" you mentioned have issues sometimes , and what you heard isnt nessiarly true in alot of cases the person dont know what to do to get things going his way so he blames it on the part itself in this case the mobo