970 board to 990FX board?

Darren

Darren

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Would be snagging a use 990FX board on ebay or similar be worth it for overclocking potential? I can get 4.1GHz on my 970 board, maybe 4.2. Past that and I get workers failing in Prime95 and my temp sensors will max out to 255oC and consequently downclock to 1.4GHz. Which I know isn't right. Did some research and saw that these MSI boards are prone to losing stability when pulling too much power and just tell the temp sensor to max itself out to downclock the chip.

Would a 990FX board be worth the price (50 USD or so) to squeeze a few hundred more MHz out of the chip? I wouldn't be looking to change the air cooler so my guess is probably not unless I could get a board for really cheap.

Edit: This is not the first time I put something in the wrong section...
 
beers said:
I'd be careful OCing an octo chip on that board. See here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database

What board are you looking at specifically for $50?
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50 bucks was a pretty liberal estimate of how cheap I could find 'em. Judging by most of the prices I can find it wouldn't be worth it since my 212 will hold be back pretty quick.

Yeah this board sucks for overclocking the 8320. I happened across a bunch of research that basically just said the board couldn't supply the power needed and crapped itself trying to do so. It was an 80 dollars board I got 3.5 years ago. I'm not complaining too much. Your very useful link confirms that. I'll definitely give that a read.
 
I noticed some thermal runaway at anything much over 4.4 or so on the FX 8350 after it started needing voltage using the 212 EVO, so you'd probably need another cooler to make it worthwhile as well.

I'd imagine it would be more 'economically sensible' to just roll that budget into an upgraded build. :P
 
It depends entirely upon my money situation but I'm contemplating an i7 setup at some point in the future. No point sicking more money into this ancient socket.
 
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