AMD FX 8370e and Asrock 990fx extreme3 motherboard

Toxic123

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I just bought my pc and I just found out that my MB has 4+1 VRMs so it will not work really well with fx 83xx CPUs. My FX 8370e is a bit more different than all the other 8 core CPUs because its TDP is 95w. I don't know if I should be worried about my MB. I really don't want to because I just bought it brand new.
Full PC specs:
CPU: AMD FX 8370e
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 960 2GB
MB: Asrock 990FX extreme3
RAM: Kingston HYPER X 8GB 4x2
 

ZENprime

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Jul 2, 2015
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Officially your motherboard supports the 8370e , picking a 95 TDP processor really helps with this motherboard so you should not be much worried

To be 100% safe please install a fan that blows air into the VRM heatsink
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