MSI 970A-G43 Plus or GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P (rev. 2.0) Motherboard?
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Neither is suited for what you are wanting. The msi has bad thermal issues and weak vrms and that gigabyte doest have the vrms for overclocking a 125w cpu. The cheapest board that will do what you are wanting is the gigabyte 970 ud3p next would be the Asrock 970 performance other than those youd a board with a 990 chipset.
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Less finicky than GB with your RAMs speed. Also, for some reason GB has 'reverted' to Rev1 -UD3Ps on the Egg. WTF?
There are Rev2 -UD3Ps on Amazon for the same price as the Asus but once again, they are less forgiving on your RAMs.
Less finicky than GB with your RAMs speed. Also, for some reason GB has 'reverted' to Rev1 -UD3Ps on the Egg. WTF?
There are Rev2 -UD3Ps on Amazon for the same price as the Asus but once again, they are less forgiving on your RAMs.
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I looked at the soecs and it uses a 4+1 vrm phase which is the minimum id reccomend for a stock 125w and thats if they have a heatsink without a vrm heatsink it would have thermal issues like the msi g43. The good overclocking boards use a 8+2 or better vrm setup.
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*8+2* phase is essentially *4+1* x2 --- what this means is more consistent volt delivery with less "VDroop"
4+1 motherboards will OC but will never reach the level of 8+2 phase motherboards. If you snag a 4+1 for your best clocks you need to tweak the 'LLC' --- which helps 'smooth-out' the volt swings.
You can tell the phases of the mobo by those little square blocks beside the CPU socket. Those are called "Chokes" and each chokes regulates 2 MOSFETs, or 'FETs'
4+1 motherboards will OC but will never reach the level of 8+2 phase motherboards. If you snag a 4+1 for your best clocks you need to tweak the 'LLC' --- which helps 'smooth-out' the volt swings.
You can tell the phases of the mobo by those little square blocks beside the CPU socket. Those are called "Chokes" and each chokes regulates 2 MOSFETs, or 'FETs'
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