Budget mild overclocking AM3+ board with USB3.0 support

[$hawn]

Hi,

So I'm planning a FX-6300 build, and I'm on a tight budget, so I've selected the ASUS M5A78L-M/U3

One of the main reason's I chose this board was because it supports upto 140W CPU's. I'm gonna overclock my 95W chip to 4.1GHz, and I've roughly estimated that the power draw would be around 125W ( 6th semester VLSI equation ).

Will the motherboard hold good and supply power under full load with no issues, or is there any major flaw in my assumption? I'm not sure how many phases this motherboard supports, but I've read that 4+1 should be more than sufficient at <125 Watts.

Also does the old 780G chipset cause any issues / performance reduction with the latest Vishera based FX chips?

 

[Tradesman1]

Should be good to go, the Asus is good mobo, will handle things fine

 

[$hawn]

Should be good to go, the Asus is good mobo, will handle things fine

Thanks Tradesman1 !

Btw what about the older 780G chipset? Are there any issues running Vishera off a board with such an old chipset? Will all features like turbo boost etc work?

 

[Tradesman1]

Full support for the 8350 was added in BIOS update 411, latest BIOS is 1503

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LMUSB3/#support_Support_CPU_FX-8150%28FD8150FRW8KGU%29,3.6GHz,8C,125W,rev.B2G,AM3+