What motherboard to upgrade to?

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I currently have an Asrock H61m-HVS and I am wondering if I need to upgrade to a better motherboard to actually use a gtx 670 and a FX-8320. And if I do need to upgrade, could you possibly suggest a mobo to buy?
 
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If you are planning on overclocking, you will want a Z77 based motherboard. It need not be a high priced enthusiast version. M-ATX will usually be cheaper and will be just as good so long as you are using a single graphics card(which I recommend) What you might do is buy a 3570K first, recognizing that your H61 motherboard will allow you negligible overclocking. Then, you might find out that the 3570K is strong enough at stock to do the job and save yourself the expense of changing motherboards.
But... if you want to change both your cpu and motherboard, then consider a Z87 motherboard and a haswell 4670K.
The performance will be similar, but you will be on a current 1150 socket, and be prepared for broadwell 16nm.
In the mean...
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What cpu are you using now?

If I am not mistaken, that motherboard is a lga1155 which will not run a amd FX-8350.
Few games use more than 2-3 cores, so a 8 core cpu may not be that helpful either.
If you are going to spend $200 on a cpu(which I think is appropriate for a GTX670)
Then look at a i5-3350P for $180
To go faster, you are looking at a overclockable "K" cpu and a change to a Z77 or Z87 based motherboard.
 
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I currently have an i3-3220. I also was looking at an i5-3570k but wasn't so sure if the fx 8320 was better or not. Thank you for the reply, I think I might buy the MSI Z77 MPower motherboard.

 
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If you are planning on overclocking, you will want a Z77 based motherboard. It need not be a high priced enthusiast version. M-ATX will usually be cheaper and will be just as good so long as you are using a single graphics card(which I recommend) What you might do is buy a 3570K first, recognizing that your H61 motherboard will allow you negligible overclocking. Then, you might find out that the 3570K is strong enough at stock to do the job and save yourself the expense of changing motherboards.
But... if you want to change both your cpu and motherboard, then consider a Z87 motherboard and a haswell 4670K.
The performance will be similar, but you will be on a current 1150 socket, and be prepared for broadwell 16nm.
In the mean time, the X87 motherboards have some nice upgrades over Z77.
 
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