Msi 970a-g46
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If your wanting to overclock, the best 970 board is the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P.
I have it and have put a couple others in builds as well. It's a pretty solid board. If you're doing much overclocking you're not going to get crazy far. On my Phenom II 955 I got to 4.0GHz from a stock of 3.2GHz without much trouble. With my 8320 I couldn't get past about 4.3GHz stable because I ran out of voltage bumps.
Only other problems I've had were that if I had my GSkill RAM in one of my slots it wouldn't boot. No idea why. I have 4 sticks of RAM. 2 GSkill and 2 Kingston. The Kingston worked fine in that slot but the GSkill didn't. It was weird. Was really a small issue though since it was easily fixed.
It's a solid board and I have no problem recommending it. But if you're expecting a lot of overclocking, remember that it's a sub $100 board.
Only other problems I've had were that if I had my GSkill RAM in one of my slots it wouldn't boot. No idea why. I have 4 sticks of RAM. 2 GSkill and 2 Kingston. The Kingston worked fine in that slot but the GSkill didn't. It was weird. Was really a small issue though since it was easily fixed.
It's a solid board and I have no problem recommending it. But if you're expecting a lot of overclocking, remember that it's a sub $100 board.
emac227
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It will be my first over clock so not expecting too much, just want to have a decent gaming machine. What CPU is a good budget processor to do with that board to over lock for gaming?