Is this motherboard sufficient for an AMD Fx 8320 CPU?

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I myself believe that the intel i5 CPU is better than the AMD cpu for gaming if you aren't going to overclock. The reason I'm considering the AMD fx 6300 or 8320 is because of its price.

I'm looking to buy a bundle from microcenter because it is cheaper. http://www.microcenter.com/site/products/amd_bundles.aspx

I was looking at the asus m5a97 motherboard in particular or the ASRock ones. I thought they were good motherboards for a good price ($200 for both a CPU and motherboard). However, someone told me to avoid those motherboards for the 8 core and 6 core cpus since they aren't well fitted to handle the power.

Is that true? What motherboard would you recommend from the bundles for the fx 8320 and the fx 6300.

I'm not looking to overclock or do anything special with my CPU, I just want good performance and would definitely not want my motherboard dying after a year. Opinions?
 
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Well for example, go to MSI boards in the chart tabs, look up the 970A-G46 and you will see a bunch of things.
"Avoid for 8-cores, OC"
"Throttling" (when it over heats, it will throttle)
"MSI has confirmed that 8-cores exceed the safe limits of this board."

To put it simply, imagine the phase count like powerlines delivering power to your CPU. The 970A-G46 has 4+1(5) and the GA-990FXA-UD3 has 8+2(10). So the 990FXA has double the phase count, meaning you are spreading out power, lessening the loads on each line reducing the chance they over heat (throttling) .
Hope you can understand that, best way I can think to put it right now lol

Also, I misread the first time, the m5a97 only has 4+2 (i thought it was 6+2) . So I think the...
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The m5a97 should be good, the 990afx to, but the rest I wouldn't touch.

Useful links:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AgN1D79Joo7tdE9xMUFlMEVWeFhuckJEVF9aMmtpUFE&gid=4
https://teksyndicate.com/forum/motherboards/best-motherboard-fx-8320-and-7950/154425

Just did a lot of research on this in a few other threads,
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2143384/building-gaming-computer.html

Those other "bad" boards don't have a good enough phase count for the 8 core cpus, so they tend to overheat.
 
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Don't quite understand what the heck that chart means, and what phase counts and all that stuff are.

What about for the 6 core CPUs? Still wouldn't touch those ASRock boards?

 
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Well for example, go to MSI boards in the chart tabs, look up the 970A-G46 and you will see a bunch of things.
"Avoid for 8-cores, OC"
"Throttling" (when it over heats, it will throttle)
"MSI has confirmed that 8-cores exceed the safe limits of this board."

To put it simply, imagine the phase count like powerlines delivering power to your CPU. The 970A-G46 has 4+1(5) and the GA-990FXA-UD3 has 8+2(10). So the 990FXA has double the phase count, meaning you are spreading out power, lessening the loads on each line reducing the chance they over heat (throttling) .
Hope you can understand that, best way I can think to put it right now lol

Also, I misread the first time, the m5a97 only has 4+2 (i thought it was 6+2) . So I think the m5a97 would be better for the 6 core, and the 990FXA for up to 8 core.


 
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