Changing mobo and getting and SSD, thoughts?

[xBlackadderx]

Hi,
At the moment I have this rig:

GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 1.0)
FX-8350 at 4.2Ghz
GTX 770 OC twin frozr
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 8Gb
BeQuite! Pure Power L8 700W (PSU)
Western Digital 500GB (3 years old)
NZXT H440 Red/Black

I am going to sell my actual mobo + FX-4100 (old CPU) and my old PSU for 100 bucks to a friend.
So I am willing (obviously) to buy a new motherboard, since I am getting paid 100€ por the sale I was looking for a 100-150€ mobo. This are my most liked options (I would like a Color maching mobo);

http://www.pccomponentes.com/msi_970_gaming.html

and

http://www.pccomponentes.com/asrock_fatal1ty_990fx_killer.html

I am willing to to take the best one, but i don't really know much about motherboards, as well i also want to know if I can call it a "upgrade". Will I gain somethin? 1 or 2 more fps on games, a better overall performance?

I am doing this because I suffer micro CPU freezes that just knocks out any CPU bound game. (I don't want to move the thread to this).

If I see that my actual mobo is in par with the MSI one (cheaper) and you don't considere that the Asrock is worth the extra 40€ I would definetly go for the MSI.

As I have been told my micro freezes could come from a faulty HDD or just a SLOW one (and yes mine is doing like a tortoise, I have tested it and... well it won't win a hare), at that point I am getting a new HDD/SSD setup, I would get one Crucial M550 512GB SSD SATA3 for +-170€ or one WD Green 2TB SATA3 64MB + a Samsung 850 Evo SSD Series 250GB for a total spend of -+210€.
What would you choose?

Thanks to all who answers!

Long life the PC master race!

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Well, the first three revision of your current mobo GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 1.0) had several issues so that could be part of your problem indeed, however rev 4.0 is finally a great mobo, I'd say stick with a 990FX chipset if you intend to eventually OC your CPU, otherwise the MSI will be enough.

More important is to get a new HDD/SSD, since yours as you mentioned before is giving bad results in benchmarks so that is very likely your main problem, I'd say go with the Samsung 850 Evo, nothing beats it's performance nor quality out there.

 

[xBlackadderx]

Well, the first three revision of your current mobo GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 1.0) had several issues so that could be part of your problem indeed, however rev 4.0 is finally a great mobo, I'd say stick with a 990FX chipset if you intend to eventually OC your CPU, otherwise the MSI will be enough.

More important is to get a new HDD/SSD, since yours as you mentioned before is giving bad results in benchmarks so that is very likely your main problem, I'd say go with the Samsung 850 Evo, nothing beats it's performance nor quality out there.

Thanks for the good answer, I would like to OC de CPU to 4.2 or 4.5 Ghz, you think that the MSI would be able to endure it without tearing apart? I'm aiming for a 2-3 years life span motherboard with no more upgrade that the ones I already mentioned/done.

 

[Vici0us]

If I were you, I wouldn't go from 990FX to 970.
I did a build for a friend with ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer paired with FX-8350 and it's been going strong.
He even Crossfired R9 290X on Fatal1ty 990FX Killer (no issues at all).
I say go with Fatal1ty Killer.

 

[xBlackadderx]

If I were you, I wouldn't go from 990FX to 970.
I did a build for a friend with ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer paired with FX-8350 and it's been going strong.
He even Crossfired R9 290X on Fatal1ty 990FX Killer (no issues at all).
I say go with Fatal1ty Killer.

Thanks, I think that this is the best choice as far as I am only spending 43€ for it, it's a good deal.
Why shouldn't i go from the 990 to a 970, what would I notice in that change?(downgrade (?))
I don't know much about mobos or chipsets so i don't know much about the 990 performance in comparison with the 970.

 

[Vici0us]

If I were you, I wouldn't go from 990FX to 970.
I did a build for a friend with ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer paired with FX-8350 and it's been going strong.
He even Crossfired R9 290X on Fatal1ty 990FX Killer (no issues at all).
I say go with Fatal1ty Killer.

Thanks, I think that this is the best choice as far as I am only spending 43€ for it, it's a good deal.
Why shouldn't i go from the 990 to a 970, what would I notice in that change?(downgrade (?))
I don't know much about mobos or chipsets so i don't know much about the 990 performance in comparison with the 970.

970 is made more for 4 - 6 core CPUs.
990FX is for 8 core CPUs. Also, 990FX let you overclock further.

 

[xBlackadderx]

If I were you, I wouldn't go from 990FX to 970.
I did a build for a friend with ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer paired with FX-8350 and it's been going strong.
He even Crossfired R9 290X on Fatal1ty 990FX Killer (no issues at all).
I say go with Fatal1ty Killer.

Thanks, I think that this is the best choice as far as I am only spending 43€ for it, it's a good deal.
Why shouldn't i go from the 990 to a 970, what would I notice in that change?(downgrade (?))
I don't know much about mobos or chipsets so i don't know much about the 990 performance in comparison with the 970.

970 is made more for 4 - 6 core CPUs.
990FX is for 8 core CPUs. Also, 990FX let you overclock further.

Thanks