Is my motherboard good enough

[alexg145]

Hi all, I've got a build I've been using for a little over a year now and was looking forward to upgrading to one of the new nvidia cards coming out, most likely the 1070.

But first I was looking over my current setup and remembered I went cheap on my motherboard and was wondering if it would be fine or if I should upgrade it as well for any over clocking I may want to do.

My specs are
AMD FX 8320 3.5GHZ
24gb of pny ddr3 1866mhz ram
Nvidia gtx 760
Thermaltake 850w psu
Msi g43-970

 

[Rabmac]

While your motherboard only has PCIe 2.0 and not PCIe 3.0, I reckon you do not need to change it just yet.

 

[madmatt30]

The g43 is a weak board , it won't allow any overclocking at all with an 8 core.

That's going to dictate whether an upgrade is worth it to you, generally though the 8320 is at its best when pushed to 4.2/4.3GHz which is definitely not possible with the g43.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hi all, I've got a build I've been using for a little over a year now and was looking forward to upgrading to one of the new nvidia cards coming out, most likely the 1070.

But first I was looking over my current setup and remembered I went cheap on my motherboard and was wondering if it would be fine or if I should upgrade it as well for any over clocking I may want to do.

My specs are
AMD FX 8320 3.5GHZ
24gb of pny ddr3 1866mhz ram
Nvidia gtx 760
Thermaltake 850w psu
Msi g43-970

Hang on to the board you have for as long as you can and don't sink any more money in that dead platform. The 1070 will work.