gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p fx (rev. 2.1) with fx-8320

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I received fx-8320 cpu with a crappy asrock mobo, where the mobo isn’t even stable at the stock speed. gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p fx (rev. 2.1) is the only mobo i found online for reasonable price, but will this mobo be stable at stock speed? What about overclocking? Anyone got first hand experience with this mobo?
 
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Yeah, the name is misleading, and sorry, i indeed fell for that.
Your board is in fact equipped for the task regarding the chipset.
I wonder if they ran out of 970A chipsets, and just built in available FX990 chips...
Still, as you already noticed, it has the same VRMs, and they are the problem very often (overheating, that is, and loosing their quality rather fast).
So, I'd still be wary about this board, for exactly the reason you mentioned.
There are just too many users complaining about 970A boards (with the same weaker VRMs) dying early when using 125W TDP CPUs (and today i'd not use anything less than a 8350 if i were to game with it), even with explicit gaming boards like the MSI 970A Krait SLI.
Rather not gamble on this, I'd...
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Most 970A-MoBos are technically able to support 125W TDP Cpus, but i wouldn't trust them, as in many reviews the power-support overheats, as the cooling is very often inadaequate, or is the onboard-VRMs.
Look for boards with 990FX chipset (or 890FX).
 
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I believe this board is titled 970a, but it actually uses 990fx chipset. i saw many complaints and reviews on previous revisions where it uses 970 chipset instead of 990fx. I wonder if 990fx makes up any difference, even though the VRM is still 4+1 instead of 8+2 like other 990FX chipsets.
 
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Yeah, the name is misleading, and sorry, i indeed fell for that.
Your board is in fact equipped for the task regarding the chipset.
I wonder if they ran out of 970A chipsets, and just built in available FX990 chips...
Still, as you already noticed, it has the same VRMs, and they are the problem very often (overheating, that is, and loosing their quality rather fast).
So, I'd still be wary about this board, for exactly the reason you mentioned.
There are just too many users complaining about 970A boards (with the same weaker VRMs) dying early when using 125W TDP CPUs (and today i'd not use anything less than a 8350 if i were to game with it), even with explicit gaming boards like the MSI 970A Krait SLI.
Rather not gamble on this, I'd say.
OTOH, I know, that getting an 990FX board for a decent price is already difficult... tough choice you have to make...
 
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