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Old_School305

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Hi am new to the forum am going to be building my first computer and wanted to see if anyone can help me out am trying to make sure before i order the parts today that everything going to work with this motherboard and fit in the new computer case here is a list of the stuff am getting for this build

1.ASRock Gaming Fatal1ty 990FX Killer AM3+/AM3 AMD 990FX + AMD SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard

2.AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition Processor

3.Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Red (HX318C10FRK2/16)

4. (Two) MSI R7 370 GAMING 4G Graphics Card (they will be crossfire)

5.Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)

6.Thermaltake V3 Black AMD Edition No Power Supply Mid Tower Case, Black VL800P1W2N

7.EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 80+ GOLD, 850W ECO Mode Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI and Crossfire Ready 10 Year Warranty Power Supply 220-G2-0850-XR
 
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Luminary

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Hello Old_School305, and Welcome to Tom's! :)

Overall a very good looking build. I do have a few suggestions, though everything above would technically work just fine:

1) This would be a better choice of board. ASRock isn't known for great AM3+ boards, and this Gigabyte below is one of the best you can get:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($179.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $179.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-08 08:34 EST-0500

2) Why the crossfire of two R7 370's instead of a single more powerful card? What price are the twin 370's running you, we might be able to find you a better solution for GPU as well in a similar price range.
 
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Hi Luminary i read somewhere yesterday that the gigabyte motherboards don't let you overclock your processor that's why i wanted to get the asrock mobo also the price on the asrock mobo yesterday was @ $120 but looks like it also went up its now $145 am also trying to go with a black and red theme for my setup on this new build about the GPU the price on them last night were @ $150 each but price want up today there now $165 each
 
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The Gigabyte motherboard I posted above most certainly allows you to overclock, and is one of the best overclocking boards available for the AM3+ socket range. I understand if you're going for a specific look of motherboard though, no really getting around that.

I'd recommend getting something like the AMD R9 390 over crossfire R7 370's. Ends up being about the same amount of money ($300), and with a single R9 390 with 8GB of VRAM you'll easily be able to play any game on ultra at 1080p, and most games at very high settings on 1440p.

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card ($304.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $304.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-08 09:47 EST-0500
 
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No problem,

Yes, that's the same motherboard I've recommended.

PCIe 3.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2.0, so the AMD R9 390 would still work perfectly well on the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R5. You really won't even take a performance it, for graphics cards there is very little loss for using PCIe 3.0 cards in a motherboard's PCIe 2.0 lane.

Some further reading on PCIe if you're interested: http://www.enthusiastpc.net/articles/00003/3.aspx

A good short video of a couple of folks demonstrating the difference performance impact of PCIe revisions on modern graphics cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNI1GactP8
 
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R5 means revision 5, it is a more recent model of the same board (the main difference is that it has a slightly better audio, all other performance and connectors are essentially identical).

That's a great deal from Tigerdirect for the board, way to hunt down the best price. :)
 
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That board on tigerdirect is a 970-ds3p mate - I wouldn't even run an 8 core on it !!!

There's confusion on the gigabyte 990 boards - there are too many revisions with similar names.

These are poor IMO (they suffer massive nb temp problems)

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3894#ov


This is good (notice the heatpipe linking the nb heatsink & vrm set)- bottom left of PSU socket.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5294#ov


If you're tight in budget drop to an 8320 & go for a GOOD 970 series board like the MSI gaming 970
http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/970-GAMING.html#hero-overview

Or the gigabyte 970a-ud3p
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4717#ov
 
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Hi madmatt30 the budget is not a problem but don't want to spend more then $200 on a mobo which gigabyte 990 fx board would be a good one from the 990 fx revisions that dose not suffer temp problems

Edit : is the MSI Gaming 990FXA-GAMING AM3+/ AM3 AMD 990FX & SB950 SATA 6Gb/s 2 x USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard any good with the AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition Processor also wanted to ask whats the differences from the 8350 and 8320 there both 8 core
 
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