New motherboard needed (possible fx-8320 overclocking)

[Karl Hopwood]

Hi all,

Need a new motherboard for around the £80 mark currently running a Gigabyte 970a-ds3 rev 3.0 but ran in to a few problems with it and dont want to overclock on that board.

Been looking at the Gigabyte 970A-UD3 AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard as its compatible with my CPU straight out of the box, which i need as i havent got access to a lower cpu to use to update the bios.

Any suggestions on a board? im never going to use sli or crossfire so thats not important to me on board specs.

Build specs:

AMD fx 8320
MSI 7870 black knight edition
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' PSU
8GB RAM

 

[Calvin7]

Gigabyte 970a-ds3 rev 3.0 doesn't list support for the use of the FX-8320.

The Gigabyte 970A-UD3 is a good choice and it has 8+2 phase CPU VRM power design for AMD high-TDP CPU support.

 

[Karl Hopwood]

Gigabyte 970a-ds3 rev 3.0 doesn't list support for the use of the FX-8320.

The Gigabyte 970A-UD3 is a good choice and it has 8+2 phase CPU VRM power design for AMD high-TDP CPU support.

i know it doesnt but i know a few people who have been running it with no problems and ive seen a few forums with it mentioned that they are running a 8320 on that board it was running fine for me until i did a bios update using @bios then it all went downhill think ill get the UD3 unless someone else suggests something else as ive read a few people say there board blew

thanks for your reply btw