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Hey guys I am shopping around for a new motherboard for my set up. I am trying to OC my processor but it keeps topping out at 4ghz when I have seen others get it up to 4.3! Some have mentioned that it is due to my motherboard. Right now I am looking around and have singled out this board as a good one: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX. Please let me know if I am making the wrong choice or suggest other alternatives. I mainly use this PC for heavy gaming!

This is my current build:

CASE: Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 High Airflow
CPU: AMD FX 6300 Six Core
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-2133C11D-16GXL
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock 990FX EXTREME3
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5
HDD: WD Black Desktop 1TB SATA 6.0 GB/s 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch
SSD: Samsung 850 PRO 256GB 2.5-Inch SATA III
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 80+ GOLD, 850W

Also what kind of problems can I run into when switching out my motherboard? Is my OS affected? I am running Windows 10
 
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it depend on your budget...

for low budget :
i5 4460 with asrock H97M-PRO4
medium budget :
i5 4690K with ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer
high budget :
i7 4790K with the ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer OR the new skylake cpu I5 6600K with asus z170 pro gaming
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Yea I was told that before which is one reason I want to overclock it more. Why is it that it bottlenecks? I used to have a FX 4300 I thought this would be a good upgrade :(. Which processor would you recommend instead? If I am buying a new mobo would you recommend getting an intel instead?
 
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it depend on your budget...

for low budget :
i5 4460 with asrock H97M-PRO4
medium budget :
i5 4690K with ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer
high budget :
i7 4790K with the ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X Killer OR the new skylake cpu I5 6600K with asus z170 pro gaming
 
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I think I might go with the skylake cpu I5 6600K with asus z170 pro gaming so I can get some DDR4 RAM. Would that pretty much get rid of the bottleneck and be good for getting a second GPU to SLI?
 
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just take note of DDR4 are slower then the DDR3 actually ...but the skylake cpu are a lot faster then haswell refresh

i know is a bit complicated , i learn like you by follow news and by reading on forum
keep tune and be sure before buying
but my suggestions are good at my best knowledges
 
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Whoa! Can you explain that a bit more? So your'e saying G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8GB) TridentZ Series DDR4 PC4-27200 3400 MHz will actually be slower than my Ripjaws? Why is that?
 
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``PC4-27200 3400 MHz will actually be slower than my Ripjaws? Why is that? ``
because of the cas latency is high on ddr4 ram go up to 16

in ddr3 the cas latency is much lower ..like 9 or 10

the latency is the speed or time need to communicated the data
more the latency is lower more faster is
 
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