Was just wondering which would be a better choice, considering that I plan to use the build for gaming and everyday use. I was thinking about using a GA-78LMT-USB3. Now I know that's old but apparently it has good VRM. I've seen people who have kept it at ~4.4ghz on this board with an FX 6300. Now my question first of all is would that be pushing the board too far?
Additionally, if I did a really light OC on the FX 8320, like 4ghz would that give FX 6300 OC ish speeds? And would this once again be pushing the board too hard?
I've looked at various benchmarks and I could see that the difference between the two at stock speeds wasn't that different, but with these overclocks what would be the case.
I wouldn't usually be so cheap on the motherboard choice although I have a fairly low budget and in Australia parts are annoyingly more expensive than with guys in the US and some other places.
The idea is that I get this with an R9 270x. In terms of price I don't really care because I would get a fx 6300 + cooler for about the same price as an fx 8320. I would just buy the cooler later when I have some more money.
P.S. I'd also like to factor in a bit of future proofing here, because I'm keen for Mantle and those extra two cores might... just might add a significant performance increase. ALSO, I will be using a Hyper 212 in both cases.
well putting a powerhungry 8 core cpu on a board like that with cheap ass analog vrm´s mosfets 4+1 powerphase is asking for troubles. ☺
i would personaly advice if you wanne go with a FX8320 to put it in a decent motherboard, like the Asus M5A99X evo R2.0 with decent 6+2 powerphase and digi vrm, this board is much better.
oh by the way ignore my statement about the heat sink on the power delivery, i see this new revision of the board does have one. but still the analog vrm´s and only 4+1 powerphase like i said above is not good for a FX8320. but for a FX6300 it should be fine. if you especialy look for a m-atx amd setup.. ☺
It only has good VRM as far as the Phenom series is concerned. I wouldn't use that motherboard for any of the FX chips, because a good 970 chipset doesn't cost much more.
There is a deal on at Newegg for the 8320, which is <$100. The FX6300 isn't much cheaper than that, but it is absolutely crucial that you pick an appropriate chipset for either the 6300 or 8320. M5A99X would be good for both. The M5A97 would be ok for the 6300.
Yeah I thought that maybe true given that its that chipset, although there are various cases with that board running with an FX 6300 and people saying fairly recently it still has fairly good VRM cooling. I dunno, I'm just going on opinions. But you could be right.
Fair enough. Yeah I'll definitely be settling for the 6300 anyway.
Although I dunno if I'll might risk it with this board as unless I spend about an extra 40, the best I'll be getting with the 970 is an Asrock 970 board with no VRM at all and it'll be an Asrock board. Not sure at this stage.
If you were considering the 8320, you should be able to make up the rest for the M5A97. Even if it is the LE. Not sure if it has 6gb sata- I will have to check.
Ohh ouch. Didn't realise you were in Australia. Might be a little harder pressed with those prices. You should be able to use the drop down on PCpartpicker (top right) to select Australia. Might give some indication of prices.
Yeah unforunately its not in Australia. Damn I really want to start a rant about technology and the prices in Australia, but I will supress myself from doing that.
I had that board in my old system with a measly FX-4100 and I promise you the CPUs are compatible but you will have constant throttling issues under load thanks to AMD's APM and the thing is that motherboard does not have the APM setting in the BIOS.
I had to get a custom BIOS made up by gigabyte support and I only got that because I demanded it and said I would lodge a formal complaint for false advertising as they sold the board as "FX Compatible" when in reality that was not 100% true.
Before you purchase it mate I would ensure they have publicly released that BIOS...
Ok yeah. You do seem very reluctant to go for the ga-78lmt USB3 is that because of the chipset? Because I've seen quite a lot of people running the fx 6300 just fine on it even with high overclocks and the VRM mosfet info on Tom's hardware or wherever it is says it is good for OC even with FX. And considering in the manufacturing page it does have even the fx 8320 and 8350 listed I think it might be OK? I dunno just what I thought. Unfortunately we don't have 750k anymore in Aus, we do have fx 4300 though.