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William444555

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I was going to get the amd fx 8370 but then saw this amazing deal on amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00DGGW3MI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1420903188&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165 )
But then saw the chip took up 220w can my msi 970 gaming motherboard handle this amount of power and will it be compatible?
If not which motherboards are?
 
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Don't get any of the 9000 series AMD processors, they're all crap as in they pull really high voltage to attain those higher clocks. The best AMD FX processor to get is the 8350 or possibly the 8370 as its prolly just a newer version of the 8350; just try to get the ones that state 125 watts. The reason I say stay away from the 9000 series and go with the 8 series is because they can usually hit 5 ghz OC with less required voltage. My 9370 can only get to 4.95 with a core voltage of 1.57, and that's really high. I've read that most people can get a 8350 to 5ghz with 1.5 volts or less, even saw one lucky guy hit 5ghz at only 1.38 volts. Look at it this way, isn't it funny how all the 9000 series FX cpus are the same price as the good 8000 series ones? Means AMD knows they're crap and just wants to sell them. Don't be like me and get a 9000 series one just cause you saw it going for the same price as a 8350, I really regret my purchase.

edit: Oh and as a note, don't get gigabyte mobos, that company goes nuts with revisions and even their newest boards have issues. MSI mobos are well made.
 
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The 8370 has exactly the same specs as the 8350 except for lower power consumption.
 
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Just wondering if the motherboard can take it but I take your advice into consideration, and am probably going to settle with an 8370 with cooler master v8 gts so I can oc it without a horrible looking huge massive heat sink (for the price air cooling is cheaper than water but water can achive better cooling at max)
 
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If you go with the 8370 and plan to OC, I sternly recommend getting at least a decent close loop water cooler. I keep my 9370 on a corsair h100 and even that can have trouble keeping up with the mad temp spikes that FX processors can go through. If I had to give you and absolute recommendation, I'd say go with intel processors. As I used to be a big AMD fan and not so much intel, the FX line is really just a huge letdown compared to what we got with the phenom series. Intel will give you more, but they are pricy unfortunately.

If you're set on AMD the 8370 should be perfect for you.

Wish you luck in winning the silicon lottery, ha.

edit: Oh and as for the mobo, should handle it fine. When it comes to FX processors you just gotta make sure you have decent vrm cooling. They get mad hot with fx processors, specially when you overclock.
 
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Yes the older versions are much lower on power consumption and TDP. However being the same architecture the 9590 has a higher factory clock which turbos at 5GHz with a stock core voltage of 1.5 (no overclocking necessary), the 8350/8370 have factory clock speeds of up to 4.2 GHz on turbo with a core voltage of 1.17 (again no overclocking required). Needless to say both of these CPUs are overkill for most applications, (an old Pentium is still a viable mid level gaming processor that you can get for around $20), but in a benchmark comparison the 9590 will win any day of the week you have to overclock the 8350 almost to the max to get the base speeds of the 9590, (usually with a higher core voltage than the 9590 too) . You need to weigh whether you want the raw power or better efficiency but either should work fine.

To answer your main question, from my experience, yes your motherboard should be able to take it as long as the socket matches and your power supply is large enough (your power supply is the biggest factor for this). However, do not try to air cool this processor it will cost way more than water cooling in the end: with an average water cooler ~$70 this processor will peak near 75°C-80°C (167°F-176°F). That is HOT!

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Here is the compatibility chart for your board: http://us.msi.com/support/mb/970-GAMING.html#support-cpu
It is not listed as compatible however I have seen builds use this board before with the 9590, it is possible. My biggest concern is that the power delivery system on the board may not be adequate and may severely shorten the life on your board if not fry it all together. Again it all comes down to what you want, personally I would take the 9590 but that's after a new mobo which is guaranteed compatible. However I would recommend if you want to keep that board, use the 8370: almost identical performance when it comes to gaming but less power consumption the, difference is 1-4 fps in 4k resolution with a good card.
 
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So my FX-8320 (late 2014 bought) was a mistake?! This time I made it the other way around: AMD CPU, special ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5, already overclocked, 2 coolers and muuuch space for further overclocking. Before I had (2010 bought) the i3-540 and HD 5770.... Next time I think I will go for Intel CPU and AMD graphic? or both AMD? (Its cheaper, and I do not want to pay much, at least not sooo much), yea every German testing site says 125W is crazy (Germany = ~28.5€ Cent for 1 kWh... over 30 US-Cent.. so 220W or so is crazy and I think nobody offers it in Germany in prebuild complete systems like the store I have, they order only after you said I want this, so they do not need space room, and they pay daily USD/EUR-Prices, and goods are not losing worth while waiting to be sold, and the other thing is, they are quite small, but they are 9 in Berlin and 2 in "Brandenburg" (The "state" completely encircling Berlin, you know if you had History, Berlin airlift and such shit ;) )
 
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Oh and "prebuild" means, they say yea its good, but they speak with you, if you want, about every single thing, I got the ASUS Card cheaper because it was the last standing around there and so it was sold for "today" price and if someone next week asks for one, they can order it maybe cheaper, I think that and the other things (I mean it was not soooo cheap everything) made him to give me the discount, first in the system there was Intel CPU and R9 xxx Graphic.... but we made it this way, I'm a bit afraid with overclocking, but it runs good and without problems, and it already has a auto turbo I miss on i3-540 (3.5 GHz, Turbo is 4.0 GHz for 4 of the logical processors, 3.7 for the other 4 if needed, in fact you know its "only" 4 real processors, Intel series selling with 4 are a bit better with "Quadcore" officialy...even though much more expansive when I looked long ago.

But the overclocking is good, I do not need to change anything on Voltage to go up with all turbo modes (for both, the first 4 and the second 4) for 300 or 400 MHz...it only goes with 100 MHz steps with AMD Overdrive or in Bios multiplicator.... i3-540 I can not change 23x multiplicator, I can only overclock there (I am at Weekends there, for work and sleep there than) over "QPI" and so, so the QPI goes from 5.86GB/s. or so to over 6.15 and I already worry since RAM goes too... 23x133 is standard (1333 RAM), 23x140 is bringing 3.22 GHz instead of 3.06 but RAM is 1400 too... 23x144 is even worse and people told me overclocking over QPI is not soo good......
 
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KilonBerlin

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I guess you answered the thread creator? I have a FX-8320... I'm very lucky to pay only 30€ a month for power, as much as I want (okay if I would run a meth lab or a server farm than they would ask me...^^ But I use more, usually the others (in substitution) are using less, the men who is the "chief" of this project told me that for all ~35 places the electricity consumption at night is 70% for all people, (22-6, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. I guess he means with "night", or until 8 a.m? But school starts at 8, stores open at 7... so I think 6 a.m.),

If I would need to pay the power my self I think I would buy a computer taking a larger amount of my "line of credit" and buy a intel CPU, since ~28.5 Cent per kWh in 2015 for Germany... I guess the FX-9000 series is better, but I think more expensive, so I did get the 8000 series, 220 Watt, needs a special power adapter I guess, since my 2010 computer (now the desktop pc of my mom) had a 500 Watt power adapter, this FX-8320/GTX 760 (as written above the special Asus version overclocked with more heatpipes and 2 coolers - maybe a bit more power consumption than the usual GTX 760) but for this system they used a 450 Watt power adapter... the i3-540 and HD 5770 for sure uses less energy than the FX-8320 system, you have to thing also about the HDD and the very small Kingston (a good company?!) SSD 120GB for Windows I use it and for Diablo 3 (I play only this game online, I do not play soo much anyway), for Diablo 3 because I did read SSD are like a accu, if the "clusters" (if it has clusters?!) will be destroyed after a number of writing... reading is no problem, but its SATA 3.0 and very very fast in reading at least I did read this, not for "my" SSD, but for SSD at all... and it does not get fragmented and defragment a SSD is only "damaging" it on long term...
 
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