Which motherboard company is good to buy

[StrangleHold]

Same thing for other brands like ASUS where you can have a great variety of quality boards and then have something like a M5A78L-M LX Plus that doesn't have enough VRM to support the CPUs on its CPU supported list (they even put a FX-8370 on the list, which is no bueno for that cheapy 3+1 setup).

Well its really a 95W board limit. The FX support are only the 95W CPUs. As in the 8320 and 8370E models.

 

[beers]

Well its really a 95W board limit. The FX support are only the 95W CPUs. As in the 8320 and 8370E models.

The 8320 non-E is still a 125w part (although I'm assuming you implied 8320E with the trailing model statement).

That's still a pretty hard limit and under load those would be crushed on an ongoing basis which I'd probably bet money on a premature failure.

 

[StrangleHold]

The 8320 non-E is still a 125w part (although I'm assuming you implied 8320E with the trailing model statement).

That's still a pretty hard limit and under load those would be crushed on an ongoing basis which I'd probably bet money on a premature failure.

Yeah I meant E on both models. Regardless I would not try to overclock any FX models. Not only is it a 3+1 phase on the chokes, its has old crappy mosfets too. I bet the mosfets would burn before the chokes would. lol.

 

[SkyMan]

A board with cheaper or no mosfet heatsinks, and a lower power phase you are generally going to want to keep to a 95w chip such as an FX 6300. Though the FX 6300 doesn't give as good as performance as an FX 8350 you can OC the 6300 to around 4.1 (before the mainboard will throttle it) with a good air cooling heatsink (hyper 212) and it's a much safer route with a non FX 990 AMD board. You can always make up any performance difference with a GPU regarding gaming.