ASUS M5A78L-M LX3 MoBo With Fx-8370 and Rx 480?

[L30P4RD]

Hello everyone, I upgraded my pc parts yesterday and now it says that cpu is not supported. However when I press F1, windows starts normally and there are random spikes in every couple of minutes when in a game. Should I think that those spikes are related with mobo or I keep using it? Any advice?

 

[Ecky]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LM_LX3/specifications/

Your motherboard only supports up to 95w CPUs. By running a 125w CPU in it, you're going to experience VRM throttling, causing severe performance issues, and you may even damage/fry your motherboard. I would return the CPU if you can, and replace it with a lower-clocked 95w model instead, such as the 8320e or 8370e.

EDIT: For what it's worth, for the price of an FX-8370 you could get an i3 6100, H110 motherboard and new DDR4, which would be faster and draw 1/3 the power than the FX CPU.

 

[Hlsgsz]

I feel for you bro. What was said above is all true.
I 100% second that you should RMA teh CPU adn don;t spend even one penny more on that dead platform, adn opt for an i3/i5 instead.

 

[L30P4RD]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LM_LX3/specifications/

Your motherboard only supports up to 95w CPUs. By running a 125w CPU in it, you're going to experience VRM throttling, causing severe performance issues, and you may even damage/fry your motherboard. I would return the CPU if you can, and replace it with a lower-clocked 95w model instead, such as the 8320e or 8370e.

EDIT: For what it's worth, for the price of an FX-8370 you could get an i3 6100, H110 motherboard and new DDR4, which would be faster and draw 1/3 the power than the FX CPU.

I feel for you bro. What was said above is all true.
I 100% second that you should RMA teh CPU adn don;t spend even one penny more on that dead platform, adn opt for an i3/i5 instead.

I picked amd because new techs games using now are more amd multicore sided (dx12 vulkan) Is this thinking wrong?

 

[Ecky]

It's not wrong exactly, but AMD's FX CPUs are 4 years old now and even in well-threaded games they're starting to show their age. Even though a Core i3 is only a dual core and the FX is an 8 core, the i3's cores are around twice as fast, and hyperthreading makes it a 4-thread CPU. Additionally, when all of the FX's cores are loaded, there's a performance penalty because they have to share resources (because of AMD's "module" design). The FX's are simply not good gaming CPUs, and have very few niches where they make sense in any PC build in 2016.

 

[Hlsgsz]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LM_LX3/specifications/

Your motherboard only supports up to 95w CPUs. By running a 125w CPU in it, you're going to experience VRM throttling, causing severe performance issues, and you may even damage/fry your motherboard. I would return the CPU if you can, and replace it with a lower-clocked 95w model instead, such as the 8320e or 8370e.

EDIT: For what it's worth, for the price of an FX-8370 you could get an i3 6100, H110 motherboard and new DDR4, which would be faster and draw 1/3 the power than the FX CPU.

I feel for you bro. What was said above is all true.
I 100% second that you should RMA teh CPU adn don;t spend even one penny more on that dead platform, adn opt for an i3/i5 instead.

I picked amd because new techs games using now are more amd multicore sided (dx12 vulkan) Is this thinking wrong?

Dead wrong. AMD may have a slight upper hand on DX12 and Vulkan on the GPU side, but their CPUs are 2012 tech and offer abysmal gaming performance. Even an i3 6100 will game better than the PCU you purchased. It's that bad until they release a (hopefully) succesful Zen architecture.

 

[L30P4RD]

It's not wrong exactly, but AMD's FX CPUs are 4 years old now and even in well-threaded games they're starting to show their age. Even though a Core i3 is only a dual core and the FX is an 8 core, the i3's cores are around twice as fast, and hyperthreading makes it a 4-thread CPU. Additionally, when all of the FX's cores are loaded, there's a performance penalty because they have to share resources (because of AMD's "module" design). The FX's are simply not good gaming CPUs, and have very few niches where they make sense in any PC build in 2016.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78LM_LX3/specifications/

Your motherboard only supports up to 95w CPUs. By running a 125w CPU in it, you're going to experience VRM throttling, causing severe performance issues, and you may even damage/fry your motherboard. I would return the CPU if you can, and replace it with a lower-clocked 95w model instead, such as the 8320e or 8370e.

EDIT: For what it's worth, for the price of an FX-8370 you could get an i3 6100, H110 motherboard and new DDR4, which would be faster and draw 1/3 the power than the FX CPU.

I feel for you bro. What was said above is all true.
I 100% second that you should RMA teh CPU adn don;t spend even one penny more on that dead platform, adn opt for an i3/i5 instead.

I picked amd because new techs games using now are more amd multicore sided (dx12 vulkan) Is this thinking wrong?

Dead wrong. AMD may have a slight upper hand on DX12 and Vulkan on the GPU side, but their CPUs are 2012 tech and offer abysmal gaming performance. Even an i3 6100 will game better than the PCU you purchased. It's that bad until they release a (hopefully) succesful Zen architecture.

Alright guys, thank you so much for your answers, I really needed it. I was lost in these pc parts and I had no idea I was doing.