Is the AsRock 970 Fatal1ty Performance good for overclocking on?

[Aria_Bashiri]

For a 970 board, it's got an 8 + 2 power phase unlike every other 970 board out there that all have a power phase of 4 + 1(Which obviously is a no-no for overclocking). Also, I don't plan to use this board for crazy overclocking, I just want to overclock an AMD FX-8320E to 4.0Ghz on this, maybe 4.2Ghz maximum. I'm only looking at this 970 board because it seems like a great deal and I'm too broke to buy a 990FX board. This board in terms of quality leans very close to a lot of the 990FX boards, which I like....A lot.

 

[maddogfargo]

I know of 3 970 boards with 8+2 phase power:

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty)
MSI 970 Gaming

Of these 3, the Gigabyte board is the only one I know of that has LLC. That makes it my #1 recommendation for a 970 overclocking board.

I have both the Gigabyte and ASRock boards. The Gigabyte got my FX 6350 to 4.950GHz easily. I'm just starting with the ASRock board for a red themed build. It won't be a heavy OC. But I am already noticing what seems to be lock ups when trying to up the FSB to just 220 or 225, at least on my particular sample. And the VRM and chipset seem to get very hot, even at just stock settings.

You only need a 990FX board for crossfire or SLI. If you have a single high end GPU, the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P is what I would go with for your 8320e.

 

[Aria_Bashiri]

I know of 3 970 boards with 8+2 phase power:

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty)
MSI 970 Gaming

Of these 3, the Gigabyte board is the only one I know of that has LLC. That makes it my #1 recommendation for a 970 overclocking board.

I have both the Gigabyte and ASRock boards. The Gigabyte got my FX 6350 to 4.950GHz easily. I'm just starting with the ASRock board for a red themed build. It won't be a heavy OC. But I am already noticing what seems to be lock ups when trying to up the FSB to just 220 or 225, at least on my particular sample. And the VRM and chipset seem to get very hot, even at just stock settings.

Oh, I thought all other 970 boards had 4 + 1 power phases, that's what people who said not to overclock on them said at least. So you have the AsRock Fatal1ty 970 Performance board too? It's apparently supposed to support 220W CPU's, that's another reason why I'm leaning towards it. It seems like it can handle somewhat more abuse than other 970 boards. A lot of other 970 boards I've seen usually support 140W TDP CPU's.

When you overclock on the AsRock board, can you let me know if it was a pretty stable overclock and if there wasn't any throttling or anything please? I'd love to know what this board can exactly handle. And yeah, I'm not surprised the Gigabyte board your using is handling that overclock well, they make really solid boards. My first build that I built a few months ago used a Gigabyte 760g mATX motherboard and I really like it so far.

 

[jhibbard75]

For a 970 board, it's got an 8 + 2 power phase unlike every other 970 board out there that all have a power phase of 4 + 1(Which obviously is a no-no for overclocking). Also, I don't plan to use this board for crazy overclocking, I just want to overclock an AMD FX-8320E to 4.0Ghz on this, maybe 4.2Ghz maximum. I'm only looking at this 970 board because it seems like a great deal and I'm too broke to buy a 990FX board. This board in terms of quality leans very close to a lot of the 990FX boards, which I like....A lot.

I have the Asrock 970 Fatality performance with the FX6350 X 2Asus R7 260x Video Cards Gskil Sniper Ram 2100 MHz 1000 watt ultra Power Supply 80+ Gold & I have it clocked to 4.8 Ghz but don't try it with a shitty cooler it is completely stable with the coolermasterv8 cpu cooler I hit cpu 45c system 47c stock cooler was 56c was system 60c

 

[Aria_Bashiri]

For a 970 board, it's got an 8 + 2 power phase unlike every other 970 board out there that all have a power phase of 4 + 1(Which obviously is a no-no for overclocking). Also, I don't plan to use this board for crazy overclocking, I just want to overclock an AMD FX-8320E to 4.0Ghz on this, maybe 4.2Ghz maximum. I'm only looking at this 970 board because it seems like a great deal and I'm too broke to buy a 990FX board. This board in terms of quality leans very close to a lot of the 990FX boards, which I like....A lot.

I have the Asrock 970 Fatality performance with the FX6350 X 2Asus R7 260x Video Cards Gskil Sniper Ram 2100 MHz 1000 watt ultra Power Supply 80+ Gold & I have it clocked to 4.8 Ghz but don't try it with a shitty cooler it is completely stable with the coolermasterv8 cpu cooler I hit cpu 45c system 47c stock cooler was 56c was system 60c

I bought the Gigabyte GA 970 UD3P for the system, thanks. Also, I bought a Hyper 212 Evo for the overclock, the stock fan barely kept my FX 8320E cool at stock temps.

 

[Vanswer]

I have an answer/question. I was able to OC my 8320 to 4.2 on the ASRock 970 Fatal1ty. In games like The Witcher 3 it runs fine. BUT, Prime95 showed throttling at that overclock due to high CPUTIN temps, which I believe is due to the MOSFET/VRM that others have noticed.

My question part is: since the CPU isn't throttling in games, just on Prime95, is there anything I should worry about?