Is the MSI 970A-G46 good enough for me?

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Flightsimluke

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Hello,

I burnt out the motherboard VRM on my OEM motherboard with a Phenom II X4 at 4.2ghz. The motherboard max TDP was 95w, and my CPU was running 143w on load. In the process of diagnosing the problem, I broke my CPU pins, so that is also out of action.

I am replacing the broken parts with an MSI 970A-G46 and a FX-6300, which I plan to overclock to 4GHZ (109W) and this motherboard has a max TDP of 125W. Will this motherboard be good for me? I have seen problems with some of these boards, but most people experience VRM failures using OC'd FX-8150's, running at roughly 150w. The motherboard is on a BIG offer, as to why I think this one is okay. I also plan to use my Antec Kuhler 920, which my OEM motherboard didn't supply enough power to, hence no pumping.

Best Regards
Luke
 
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rolli59
MSI had VRM issues with their first revision or the 970A-G45 they updated with the G46 which basically added the VRM heatsink and will do dual card at X8 X8. I believe it is fine just as long it is not pushed far above the 125watt tdp.
I RMAed my G45 (had 2 intermittent SATA ports) for a G46 which is now running a phenom II 955 at 3.6GHz, the G45 ran a FX8350 @ 4.4GHz std Vcore (now on a 990FX GD80) for a couple of months before RMA and everything worked fine.
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There's a Google docs spreadsheet out there that's blocked at work, but has a lot of VRM and phase information on it. There are a LOT of MSI boards on it that are weak, but I don't recall if that one is on it. I'd stick to Asus, Gigabyte, or (higher-end) ASRock if you're interested in overclocking.
 
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I have read too many tales of woe involving MSI motherboards to feel comfortable about buying one myself yet, so I don't think it is appropriate for me to recommend one to someone else. Take that for what it's worth; 2nd-hand and 3rd-hand "information," but no direct personal experience with them. If I were the one buying, I'd choose a different board, but ymmv.
 
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MSI had VRM issues with their first revision or the 970A-G45 they updated with the G46 which basically added the VRM heatsink and will do dual card at X8 X8. I believe it is fine just as long it is not pushed far above the 125watt tdp.
I RMAed my G45 (had 2 intermittent SATA ports) for a G46 which is now running a phenom II 955 at 3.6GHz, the G45 ran a FX8350 @ 4.4GHz std Vcore (now on a 990FX GD80) for a couple of months before RMA and everything worked fine.
 
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I have also bought this motherboard yesterday. So my question is can it support AMD 7770 Sapphire 1GB DDR5 GPU ??
 
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rolli59

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Yes it will.
 
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SoumyaHD

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Thank You
 
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