I've never had problems with an MSI board, i've had a few DOA Asus boards, Asrocks and Biostars. Most branded boards are pretty good. Never used a Zotac board or bundle, but i've had Zotac GPUs.
The AMD Sempron is a rubbish chip, unless you have a board that can unlock it, Single cored chips are so outdated these days, I'm always surprised that AMD still make the Sempron as a single-core chip.