Need help picking new motherboard

raging-beaver

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May 10, 2014
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Im rather new with computers/technology; bare with me. 4 years of use and my old one died on me. Took it in to a shop, guy pretty intelligible. Installed a new board a msi 970a sli krait edition. Worked fine untill i put it under high load (gta5) zapped in 10 mins. Took it back to shop and guy couldn't find anything wrong with anything. I dont really want to upgrade my processor yet (budget reasons) but maybe that is the cause? I also read reviews after about the 970 board and few people said that theirs overheated under highloads. One final thing : IT guy said that my cooling sounded a bit off to gim but i havent noticed a diffrencthe sounds of the fan, but he said maybe i should replace that aswell.. what do you guys thibk the problem is and should i just try a diffrent amd better board or should i upgrade?

System:
CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.60 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology
FAN: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Dual Enermax Enlobal Silent High Performance 120MM Fans
HDD: 120GB Corsair Force GT Series SATA-III 6.0 Gb/s SSD
HDD2: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte GA-970A-D3 AMD 970
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 1,200 Watts - Cooler Master Silent Pro 80
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