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The CPU will be a FX-8350 and too many motherboards are faulty or risky, so please recommend one. I want to know what is your experience with it and if owned then for how long?
cant say how yours will be but asus crossfire v .. had mine 3+ yrs never had a problem run my 8350 @5ghz on water
my son has the same but runs it stock on air ..
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What is to come will come. And soon you too will stand aside,
To murmur in pity that my words were true
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I can recommend the Biostar TA990FXE. I've had mine for three years, and never had a problem with it. I've recently put an FX-8350 in it, had a Phenom II X4 945 in there for most of the time. No problems with SLI either.Originally Posted by LAPIII
As a bonus, I picked mine up as b-stock/refurbished from ebuyer for about £60. I'm not sure about the availability of them now - they weren't even readily available when I was buying - but I'd take a punt on one again.
My Sabertooth 990fx still rocks since 2011
I've have a Sabertooth FX990 R2.0 since January 2013. It has never given me any issues whatsoever. Ran a FX8350 @ 4.6 and currently a FX8320E @ 4.8. Good as gold. Will be looking to upgrade to the R3.0 version coming out at the end of the month to have a play with M.2 PCIe storage.
Why you don't jump to AM4? worth the wait?
I'll be jumping to AM4 once the dust settles and we know the lie of the land. Early boards will still be fairly beta and I have one main rig that I use for gaming / photography that just works. Can't be bothered messing around with blue screens and waiting for fixes. My FX8320E @ 4.8Ghz is nicely sorted and feels smooth in use and I have not encountered anything that hammers it to such an extent that I feel the absolute need to upgrade.
So plan is:
Asus Sabertooth FX990 R3.0 (due out next week I think)
Samsung SM950 PRO NMVe (512GB) (This will replace the 4 x Samsung 850 EVO SSDs I have)
Then replace my Samsung 1TBs with Toshiba X300 4Tbs (September timeline)
AMD RX490 will be coming out in Q4 so will wait for an EK block to suit (Nov - Dec?)
then
Think about Zen, AM4 Asus Sabertooth board and 32GB of DDR4 in Mar 17 and make the FX8320 / Sabertooth a media server.
Awesome, i've been saving for a upgrade like that too. i hope it worths
I recommend not going with the Asus M5A78L series motherboards if you would like to overclock at all. I've had mine for 4-5 months now and while it's a great budget M-ATX board, it seems to be a no-go for overclocking due to the (supposed, I haven't actually checked my motherboard but the nice guys over at Tomshardware say so) lack of heatsinks on the motherboard. I hope you find a motherboard you do like, I'll probably check back since I want to get a motherboard to replace it.
I bought an asus M5A78L-M lx3 and while it's been a solid budget board, I've heard it's not incredible for overclocking. I've never had any problems with it, I can get my fx-6300 happily up to 4.2ghz with minimal problems, but the fellas over at tomshardware seem to think the heatsinks on it aren't that great.
The problem with the cheaper boards is that they cannot reliably support the power requirements of the FX8xxx and FX9xxx once you start to push them a little and tbh that is half the fun of owning a FX. The OP has a 8350 which will easily top 200W with a bit of prodding and before that stage the cheaper boards will go phht
On the other hand, if he wanted to downclock to say 3Ghz and lower the voltages then a M5A78L-M would do the job quite nicely.
I have just purchased a new motherboard, the Asus 970 Pro Gaming/Aura on the advice of one of my friends who has had this same board for a while. I must say all the softwares included with the board were/are really great. The Ramcache, Asus Boot Setting (a great time-saver) and the Aura are helpful to a 'T'.
It cost me £98.00 on Amazon and i am so pleased with it i just had to mention it here.
the gigebyte ga-990fxa, its the newest with all the bling, and might be the first gigabyte board you can actually overclock without giving up 10 minutes later, it has a button to reset bios and maybe decent cooling on the northbridge
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=5655#ov
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