Would this work with a 8320

Hardware Motherboards
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would a ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2 work with a 8320 and would I be able to overclock further down the line?

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i would never recommend a 970 board for any of the 8 cores. not to mention, if you want to do any overclocking, you'd really want a 990fx. i got an asrock extreme3 board for like $90 on newegg a year ago, and my 8350 sat fine at 4.7ghz with an H100 from corsair. 

I've just seen way too many problems pop up with 8 cores and 970 boards. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135345

Here's an ECS 990fx for $80 (not sure where you live, this is in US)

you might not recognise the brand, but ECS makes good stuff, and has been reliable to me for years.

 

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Those Asrock 970 boards are not realy made for powerhungry 8 core cpu´s. 4+1 powerphase and not the best quality of vrm´s. this is basicly an issue with allmost all 970 boards. only Asus has a M5A97 evo R2.0 with 6+2 powerphase and digi vrm. but this board is hard to find for cheap outside Europe. so i would recommend to buy a decent 990FX chipset board.

  1. Asus M5A99FX pro R2.0 6+2 powerphase digi vrm
  2. Asus M5A99X evo R2.0 6+2 powerphase digi vrm (only 20 pci-e lanes)
  3. Asrock 990FX Fatal1ty killer 8+2 powerphase digi vrm.

At a reasonable price point look at one of those boards above.

Grtz Angel ☺

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grab a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 revision 4.

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It will only work if you are cool with the FETs catching on fire and exploding. Get a better  board.