I bought this motherboard because I recently bought a FX 8350 which is meant for an AM3+ socket but the mobo I had at the time was an ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ to accommodate the A10 7850k APU I was using which was an FM2 socket. I was wondering if this was a bad decision in the end because I see that a lot of people are saying the MSI 970A-G43 is not a good mobo but there is nothing on the MSI 970A-G43 Plus.