Worth upgrading AMD Motherboard and/or CPU?

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Important bits of build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kt2hVn

I just recently got the 7870 from a friend and so far I've been pleasantly surprised. Running Fallout 4 on Medium pretty well, even with some mods and whatnot.

Basically I'm wondering if there's a bottleneck in the build, I've been assuming it's mostly the motherboard.(It won't run the ram at 1600, instead they run at 1333 with garbo timings.) But the processor is fairly competitive even with newer AMD processors.

Is it worth upgrading the mobo and cpu so the ram can run at 1600 proper and I can have an fx-6350 or similar?
 
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Even though the sticks of RAM are the same "speed" it does not mean they will work together. This is a common problem. You should just let the mobo set them automatically, as it appears to be trying to do. Or manually set them to 1333.
The rule of thumb is that you buy matched RAM from one company; they test them to make sure that...
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You more then likely will not see any difference between 1600 and 1333 RAM speed, especially in gaming. You might if you were using integrated graphics for streaming video's.
Is it worth the cost? Possibly. I replaced AMD quad core (9950) and dual core (old) with the 6300 and have been impressed with the performance increase: But a real gain would be to switch to Intel i5 or i7 as either switch (AMD or Intel) is going to involve reinstalling the OS etc. as the motherboard will have changed.
If you go with the AMD upgrade, get the 990X or 990FX chipset. I have built 3 gaming p.c's. using the ASUS M5A99X and M5A99FX and have had zero problems with them. MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock are also good boards from what I hear.
Good luck!
 
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That MOBO supports DDR3 1600mhz so you have enter BIOS to configure that to run at 1600mhz.

That CPU wont bottleneck your GPU except on old DX9 games because of low Single-Threaded Performance but even that wont be a problem much.
 
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I have tried doing so, but it seems to leave two sticks at 1333(665 or whatever) and try to put the other two at 1600(800). Which causes instability and crashes.
 
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Even though the sticks of RAM are the same "speed" it does not mean they will work together. This is a common problem. You should just let the mobo set them automatically, as it appears to be trying to do. Or manually set them to 1333.
The rule of thumb is that you buy matched RAM from one company; they test them to make sure that the two or four sticks are compatible with each other. Mixing RAM, even from the same maker and with the same clock speeds and timings, can fail. You are trying to mix AData and Corsair RAM; there is bound to be something different in the sticks.
If you really need that little bit of extra speed, then you may have to invest in a new "kit" of either 2X4GB or 4x2GB from one manufacture: this is the simplest solution to your problem.
 
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