I don't have any experience about MSI, but quality is something that EPoX, mummhh, didn't have with 8KHA+. Yah, it was a cheap and nice mobo but there was some serious problems with those. At one hardware store here in Finland, They had over 1/10 broken. The problem was in the mem slots and mobo complaned about C1 in diagnostics. I had two of those babys

but now there's a working mobo inside my Chieftec