best processor compatible with m5a97 le r2.0

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ishmeetrocks

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Well i would like to know the best processor that can be run on my motherboard (irrespective of price).
My motherboard is asus M5A97 L.E. R2.0
 
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Danbuscus25
i woulldnt OC a 125 watt cpu on that board, or atleast not much, so dont OC the 8320/8350 on there. the 6300 is 95 watt, so it should be ok to OC it, but the performance wont be as good. i would get a nice cooler like hyper 212 evo, and then either 8320 or 8350, which ever you can afford.
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i woulldnt OC a 125 watt cpu on that board, or atleast not much, so dont OC the 8320/8350 on there. the 6300 is 95 watt, so it should be ok to OC it, but the performance wont be as good. i would get a nice cooler like hyper 212 evo, and then either 8320 or 8350, which ever you can afford.
 
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A 4+2 phases board will throttle this processor even at stock. It doesn't even have a heat sink for the VRM and the LE board in particular is not that good. Even Asrock Extreme 3 has performance issues with that processor and I have seen people complaining about similar issues with the Asus M5A99FX which is a 6+2 board when running 8 cores AMD processors.
Although the FX-8350 is advertised as a 125 w TDP chip it is actually a 140 w TDP chip, that is why you see all these boards saying they support up to 140 w TDP CPUs. But in reality the VRM on these lower boards cannot handle the power draw of such a processor and it ends up throttling it down. That specifically can hit the processor's performance in gaming with fps dropping.
 
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