ASUS is a highly respected brand, I have their motherboard and their video card and two of their optical drives, DVD and Blu-ray, everything has worked just fine. Please, don't paint it too black if you had one disappointment. "All men are mortal", like JFK said.
MSI seems to be a bit controversy. I've had several MSI mobos, their video cards, and they have my full respect. I had a MSI overclocked video card, with safe temperature to 120 °C = 248 °F! You could have fried eggs on it.
Yet, it worked like a dream.
Some hate MSI, they say "nothing good comes from there", but I strongly disagree. It may be, like so often in human life, jealousy causes pain and opinions. Only in Open Source with their "Kill Bill [Gates]" game have I met such strong feelings. Unless we go to [Neo]Nazis or something extreme. But that's a totally different matter.
Failure or mistake are not bad. They provide us with an opportunity to grow as personal human beings. Unless we hit our head against the wall, we will be slumberjacks instead of lumberjacks. We simply need to fight, we need something we must do. Otherwise, it's all like the sleep of Snow White.