Best AMD FX cpu with GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3P

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m_a_2015

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I want to ask which FX CPUs work best with this motherboard I was thinking about FX 6350 with a safe overclock nothing big but also i need to know if that motherboard can handle an FX 8370 (not E) with no overclock.
 
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The 970-chipset is generally poor for overclocking, it's unstable etc.
I had one.
Go for the 990-chipset instead.
I went from 4.4 Ghz on a 970A Gigabyte mobo to 4.8 Ghz on an Asus 990FX mobo (Sabertooth).
I could not get 1866 Mhz RAM to work on 970A, had no problems at all with 990FX.

That's the issues I can remember, this was a year ago.
 
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If you already have that motherboard, you should be able to run a 6300-series or an 8300-series just fine. Don't expect a very good overclock, though, if any. It's not necessarily that the chipset isn't as good at overclocking as much as it is that 970-chipset motherboards generally don't have OC-friendly power delivery, and with the power-hungry FX chips, a strong power system is a necessity.

Before I switched to Intel, I was using a similar motherboard to the one you asked about. The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 is a moderately priced motherboard, packed with features (well, as packed as it can be on a several-year-old platform) and a very strong power delivery system. I had my FX-4350 up to 4.8GHz on it for a while (under a Corsair H80i), but the silicon lottery wasn't good to me, and it was only stable at that speed for a few weeks before I started having some stability issues. I backed it down to 4.5GHz and it was just fine, but at that point the overclock didn't do much good. I got to play with an 8350 for a short while and clocked it up to 4.9 in the same motherboard - it was stable, but boy was it hot. (lol)
 
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The real answer is that the board will overclock to 4.4 with no difficulty with an 8 core FX or to 4.5 if you do a slight BCLK increase. It will not handle more than about 4.5 because it will throttle in IBT if you overclock the proper way and disable APM for full performance. If you are not going to stress test for stability you can clock it higher than 4.5 but you won't know if you're really stable or not.

This is a digital doubled 4 (for 8 phases total), plus a phase for the RAM.

You will need to have a strong fan on the VRM heatsink if you're going to go to 4.4 or 4.5 or your VRMs will get too hot.

People who say the 970 chipset overclocks poorly are also wrong. It comes down to the quality of the VRM system. The UD3P has a decent VRM system which is why it overclocks better than a typical 970 board.

If you want even better overclocking you need to step up from a doubled digital 4 to a true 6 Phase (Asus Pro) or a true 8 phase (Asus Sabertooth or Crosshair).
 
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