MSI to Sell Motherboard + Graphics Card Combos with Cashbacks

btarunr · Feb 16, 2015

MSI offers cashback to end-users who buy a selected MSI motherboard combined with a MSI graphics card at official MSI resellers. Some of the eligible products are MSI's full range of X99 motherboards, the MSI Z97 GAMING line-up, the Z97S SLI Krait Edition and selected H97 models. Combined with a purchase of one of MSI's latest GTX960, GTX970 or GTX980 graphics cards, or MSI's high performance R9 290 or R9270X cards, end users can receive cashback adding up to €50.

The promotion is running in 20 countries in Europe and is set for those looking to upgrade or assemble a brand new high-performance PC by themselves, ready to take on any PC computing task in 2015. All program details can be found here. People from the following countries are eligible for the MSI cashback action which runs from February 10th until March 12th 2015: France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey.

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hojnikb · Feb 16, 2015

As always, my country is excluded... :banghead:

bonehead123 · Feb 16, 2015

man this sux......no luv for the US on this one . :cry:

And just last week, I bought some of the very items included in this promo...bummer :shadedshu:

64K · Feb 16, 2015

bonehead123 said:
man this sux......no luv for the US on this one .

And just last week, I bought some of the very items included in this promo...bummer

Yeah, but people in some of those countries pay very high prices for hardware anyway. Here in the USA we don't get beat up too bad with high prices. They deserve a break so I'm happy for them.

Caring1 · Feb 16, 2015

64K said:
Yeah, but people in some of those countries pay very high prices for hardware anyway. Here in the USA we don't get beat up too bad with high prices. They deserve a break so I'm happy for them.

If that was the case then they could have thrown us a bone down here in Australia as well ....
Our hardware prices are roughly double what you guys pay.

Starlord · Feb 16, 2015

Caring1 said:
If that was the case then they could have thrown us a bone down here in Australia as well ....
Our hardware prices are roughly double what you guys pay.

I think noone is able to throw that far

Sony Xperia S · Feb 16, 2015

hojnikb said:
As always, my country is excluded...

Yeah, sure. :rolleyes:

Clients from other countries are not counted as people.

Sue them for geographic discrimination.

dj-electric · Feb 16, 2015

bonehead123 said:
man this sux......no luv for the US on this one .

I would rather have no deal and the world's cheapest prices on hardware. If in europe in most countries there was a 30% off, it will still be a lot more expensive.

Hood · Feb 16, 2015

btarunr said:
MSI offers cashback to end-users who buy a selected MSI motherboard combined with a MSI graphics card at official MSI resellers. Some of the eligible products are MSI's full range of X99 motherboards, the MSI Z97 GAMING line-up, the Z97S SLI Krait Edition and selected H97 models. Combined with a purchase of one of MSI's latest GTX960, GTX970 or GTX980 graphics cards, or MSI's high performance R9 290 or R9270X cards, end users can receive cashback adding up to €50.

The promotion is running in 20 countries in Europe and is set for those looking to upgrade or assemble a brand new high-performance PC by themselves, ready to take on any PC computing task in 2015. All program details can be found here. People from the following countries are eligible for the MSI cashback action which runs from February 10th until March 12th 2015: France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey.

I'm glad the US is excluded, so none of my fellow citizens will even be tempted to waste money on crappy MSI products. MSI is the worst, both MSI boards that I've used ran hot and froze up when a game was run, and wouldn't run RAM at it's advertised speed. I wouldn't use one of their boards if they gave them away, it would probably burn my house down.

dj-electric · Feb 16, 2015

Hood said:
I'm glad the US is excluded, so none of my fellow citizens will even be tempted to waste money on crappy MSI products. MSI is the worst, both MSI boards that I've used ran hot and froze up when a game was run, and wouldn't run RAM at it's advertised speed. I wouldn't use one of their boards if they gave them away, it would probably burn my house down.

As a person who reviewed products for many years until just recently - that's nice honey.
Judging by your experience, i won't touch any brand at all. Becuase i had the most emberassing issues with all 4 major brands.

Ooh, what i didn't have. Lets see. factory new boards with
defective sockets
the ability to burn PCI-E cards within seconds by using too much power
Memory competability issues
BIOS bootup issues
Defective chips
Defective USB ports

Now your guess what issues belong to what brand are as good as the next guy.

Ferrum Master · Feb 16, 2015

I guess Baltics, Portugal and Ireland are located in wrong places in MSI maps...

ASUS, GB etc take my money just because...

Sony Xperia S · Feb 16, 2015

Hood said:
I'm glad the US is excluded, so none of my fellow citizens will even be tempted to waste money on crappy MSI products. MSI is the worst, both MSI boards that I've used ran hot and froze up when a game was run, and wouldn't run RAM at it's advertised speed. I wouldn't use one of their boards if they gave them away, it would probably burn my house down.

So much hatred but the truth is that MSI is actually one of the better brands which I like more than the others.....

Gigabyte and Asus, for example, are million times worse...

Ferrum Master · Feb 16, 2015

Quit the fanboyism...

I will say then Tyan and Supermicro are the best... (Actually none of them had problems for me when living un multisocket opterons during P4 era)

MSI is the second worst... First is Gigabyte lately... Asus is the third worst... All of them have glitches on certain products.

Yes it would be more correct to put them in worst POS scale.

HumanSmoke · Feb 16, 2015

Caring1 said:
If that was the case then they could have thrown us a bone down here in Australia as well ....

Long past caring(!) about MSI when it comes to motherboards. The company don't even sell mobo's across the ditch in New Zealand, and any enthusiast importing one of their boards forfeits any warranty. Locally Asus, ASRock, and Gigabyte carve up the majority of market share.

Caring1 said:
Our hardware prices are roughly double what you guys pay.

Likewise. Luckily, our Customs Service officers seem to come from a pool of people that failed to make the grade as migrant produce pickers and fast food drive-thru operators, so unless you're willing to be price gouged as a reward for supporting local business it isn't too much of a problem.

maximoor · Feb 16, 2015

Ferrum Master said:
I guess Baltics, Portugal and Ireland are located in wrong places in MSI maps...

ASUS, GB etc take my money just because...

Normal. Portugal is always the outsider...

Ja.KooLit · Feb 17, 2015

meh. i dont understand asian prices never go down or promotion not included even the production is just in the neighborhood (china)

THE_EGG · Feb 17, 2015

Caring1 said:
If that was the case then they could have thrown us a bone down here in Australia as well ....
Our hardware prices are roughly double what you guys pay.

Especially now with the crappy AUD. Not much point in ordering from Amazon or Newegg anymore

Frick · Feb 17, 2015

Ferrum Master said:
Quit the fanboyism...

I will say then Tyan and Supermicro are the best... (Actually none of them had problems for me when living un multisocket opterons during P4 era)

MSI is the second worst... First is Gigabyte lately... Asus is the third worst... All of them have glitches on certain products.

Yes it would be more correct to put them in worst POS scale.

This makes no sense at all. Is a €30 motherboard crap because it's not a €600 server behemot?

In fact, the best boards I've used were the cheapest MSI AM3 motherboards. €30 and they just work and they even overclocked decently!

Anyway, some things are not that more expensive in Sweden now. MSI Z97 Gaming 5 is $147.99 on Newegg, on Komplett.se it's $166.86. H81M-P33 $45.99 on Newegg, misco.se $54.23. OTOH, the GTX 970 Gaming $349.99 is on newegg, while on komplett.se it's $449.85...

Sony Xperia S · Feb 17, 2015

See what a surprise.

Russian researchers find ‘US spy software in hard drives’

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d4a8f9c-b668-11e4-95dc-00144feab7de.html#axzz3RzROZicw

And I was wondering why they give us only 930 GB free space to use, out of 1 TB.

Frick · Feb 17, 2015

Sony Xperia S said:
See what a surprise.

Russian researchers find ‘US spy software in hard drives’

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d4a8f9c-b668-11e4-95dc-00144feab7de.html#axzz3RzROZicw

And I was wondering why they give us only 930 GB free space to use, out of 1 TB.

Wrong article bub.

Caring1 · Feb 17, 2015

Already been posted.

micropage7 · Feb 17, 2015

nice offering and as usual south east asia is nowhere

Ferrum Master · Feb 17, 2015

Frick said:
This makes no sense at all. Is a €30 motherboard crap because it's not a €600 server behemot?

In fact, the best boards I've used were the cheapest MSI AM3 motherboards. €30 and they just work and they even overclocked decently!

Anyway, some things are not that more expensive in Sweden now. MSI Z97 Gaming 5 is $147.99 on Newegg, on Komplett.se it's $166.86. H81M-P33 $45.99 on Newegg, misco.se $54.23. OTOH, the GTX 970 Gaming $349.99 is on newegg, while on komplett.se it's $449.85...

I could recommend to refresh your price lists... even the MBD-X10DAI-O does not cost over 400$, and it is a flagship behemoth actually. It is server grade, mission critical and yes at least some sort of guarantee for stability, it just has the additional copper layers and proper board routing... not PR rubbish.

All the other crap, my board worked like champ, that was bad, he did that... Fanboyism IMHO. Each of them have their flaws lately none of them are exclusions.

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