After further visual inspection of the board I also noticed that a lot of the parts or maybe even the motherboard itself is manufactured by FoXconn and therefore is a supplier to the name brands (MSI, XFX, BFG, etc..) I only speculate this because i have had a XFX 680 nvidia & BFG 590 Nvidia MB's with Foxconn parts on them .. and they have both crapped out.. the 680 had capacitors that smoldered,