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The 970 chipset itself is not bad. The thing is that lower end motherboards are made with the 970 chipset since the chipset only supports one graphics card. No crossfire (aka no multiple graphics card) support means cheaper components can be and are used for everything on the motherboard, since less power and so on is supposedly required, which in general will make 970 motherboards fail earlier than an equivalent 990FX motherboard, if put under the same strain. So it's the motherboard manufacturers themselves that make the boards relatively crappy. It's not the chipset's fault. The companies seem to have this mindset that people who want quality boards are going to put at least two graphics cards in their system, and the casual ones...
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Yea I heard alot about MSI budget mobo's, but this one is the Gaming series so I dont really know alot about the gaming series but I hope it is better or atleast won't die on me. Also I may want to upgrade to FX-6350 or FX-8--- something when they drop prices does the MSI one support it?
 
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I have an MSI Z87-G43 (Intel chipset) mobo that has performed flawlessly for me for the past year. I'm a big fan of MSI's Intel chipset mobos!

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for MSI's 970 AMD chipset boards. I don't know the specs for this particular board, but check to be sure that it has at least 6+2 Power Phases, and good VRM cooling.

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Do you have any site or something where I can look those thing up?
Edit: Nvm, I found it. It has 6+2 Power Phases and some say beast VRM Cooling but I hear a lot of bad about chipset 970 should I save up and go for 990FX?
 
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The 970 chipset itself is not bad. The thing is that lower end motherboards are made with the 970 chipset since the chipset only supports one graphics card. No crossfire (aka no multiple graphics card) support means cheaper components can be and are used for everything on the motherboard, since less power and so on is supposedly required, which in general will make 970 motherboards fail earlier than an equivalent 990FX motherboard, if put under the same strain. So it's the motherboard manufacturers themselves that make the boards relatively crappy. It's not the chipset's fault. The companies seem to have this mindset that people who want quality boards are going to put at least two graphics cards in their system, and the casual ones that want a single GPU won't be doing any overclocking, which isn't true, but hey... That's how it is most of the time.

If you have the money, I'd say go for the 990FX. Especially if you want to overclock. It's not really a requirement if you're not going to overclock though. The 970 should be fine in that case.
 
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Sorry for my late reaction, so I can't SLI with a 970 chipset (I'm NVidia user). And what do the power phases actually do for performance or what are they used for? Or should I buy a cheap 990FX board, but the downside for that is then it has cheap components.
 
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For power phase explanation, this is the most simple one:
http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/what-are-power-phases.169661/

As for running SLI on a 970 board, some support it, some don't, although all of them support crossfire. You'll have the check the user manual for that. The ones that support SLI, only have x4 on the second pci-e slot (just like crossfire). This causes a drop in performance when running it. If you are planning on running SLI, the safest bet is to go with 990x or 990fx.
 
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