MSI 970A-G46 Motherboard + GTX 760 4GB + AMD FX8350 would this work??Please help

skully010

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Hi I am noob when it comes to building a pc on my own, so my config for the build is a MSI 970A-G46 mobo with AMD FX8350 and for the graphic card I was thinking of nvidia GTX 760 4GB will this work fine or would it be a problem?? and I am also a bit confused between HD 7950 & GTX 760 4GB which one would you recommend (especially if you're budget gamer). Please help me out here. Thanks
 
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The motherboard has a bad vrm
you cant overclock on the 8350 on that motherboard
the motherboard has heating issues....
and i think that it will bottleneck the gtx 760 4gb a little bit

so the best motherboard to get the full pleasure of the overclocked 8350 is the ASUS M5a97 r2 mobo
*do not confuse with the LE version

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The motherboard has a bad vrm
you cant overclock on the 8350 on that motherboard
the motherboard has heating issues....
and i think that it will bottleneck the gtx 760 4gb a little bit

so the best motherboard to get the full pleasure of the overclocked 8350 is the ASUS M5a97 r2 mobo
*do not confuse with the LE version
 
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skully010

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Thanks a lot that really helped I think Ill go with ASUS M5a97 r2 mobo but could you also tell me what PSU should I go with a 650 watt or a 700 watt?? i might add in another graphic card in the near future so, if you have any advice regrading this it would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

 

skully010

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Thank you so much your help I really appreciate it. :)
 

skully010

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Hello there, first of all thank you for giving in your inputs that really helped me a lot i just happen to have another question and that is whether GTX 660 or 660 ti is compatible with ASUS M5a97 r2 mobo or not??

 

Joshua Banks

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i know this an an old post but i had the same setup and now i upgraded to an asrock 990fx because of vrm issues sent the board back and they gave me a fresh one but i had my 6300 overclocked to 4.8 on the board and 8320 to 4.3 but when i upgraded to the 990 board i was able to get 5.3 stable off the 6300 and but still having issues passing the 4.3 threshold with my 8320
 

Martin Burke

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I have a 970 A . Indeed it is a bad for over clocking . I have a 6300 running at 4.3 but had to pull back to 4.2 . It's just terrible . Have a beast of a cpu cooler but makes no difference when the board is dirt.