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I chose the MSI Gaming Plus to upgrade my PC with an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X after 5 years with an AMD FX 8350 Black Edition (which, unfortunately, had been badly hobbled by a lemon of a Gigabyte board). I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg, as I was trying to upgrade on a budget, but I needed solid performance--especially for VR. The Gaming Plus, so far, has worked out perfectly. Everything is working flawlessly, and installation was a breeze after I figured out I didn't need the extra 4-pin power connector for the CPU Power, just the 8-pin (my power supply only had the 8, not the 8+4). The BIOS is terrific--easy to configure, and the XMP profile was convenient for setting up my 16GB (2x8) of G.Skill RipJaws DDR4 3000 RAM. The USB so far appears solid--a problem I faced with the Gigabyte board, which had a flaky USB bus (among other problems). Also, my Samsung Evo 960 (250GB) is blazing fast, as is everything else. No overheating at stock or boosted core speeds, and the heatsinks are all very firmly seated on this board (my Gigabyte had badly-seated heatsinks which meant the board heated up too much with even minor overclocking attempts). The "Armored" PCIE port is a great idea, and works well with my ASUS GeForce 1080Ti ROG Strix in there--a heavy board that doesn't bend the armored port at all. The MSI also easily accommodated my Corsair H60 liquid cooler, which I repurposed for the 2600X as I did not want to go with the stock (fan) Wraith cooler. The Corsair attached easily, and even at peak effort with all cores firing at over 4GHz, the highest temperature I've seen is 72C; I'm getting between 36C-44C at idle, and around 56C under moderate loads. Absolutely no overheating issues with this board (unlike the Gigabyte). If I had one criticism, it would be the lack of color-coding for the audio jacks in back, but I eventually figured out what goes where (the diagram in the manual didn't really help), so I'm not taking points off for that. Everything else with this board has been terrific so far. Anyway, very pleased.