Msi 970 gaming vs gigabyte 990fx

[sarge52]

Hello everyone. I'm building a new rig that I'm going to be using to stream on twitch and online gaming. I've come to an impass on picking a motherboard.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019C3S2CS/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1463281563&sr=8-2&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=motherboard+990fx&dpPl=1&dpID=51gm%2BNCprOL&ref=plSrch
OR
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00LUY72F6/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1463281199&sr=1-1&refinements=p_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2057457011&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=motherboard&dpPl=1&dpID=51XiDG5rPyL&ref=plSrch

The rest is as follows:

Cpu- amd fx8370 black ed. With included wraith cooler (over clocking is a decision factor)

Gpu- evga gtx970

Psu- Thermaltake 750w

Storage- Samsung 160gig ssd
1tb hdd

Case- has 6 small fans, one for Cpu, 2 at the the top, 1 at the bottom, and 2 at the front, with 1 large fan in the side window, so heat "shouldnt" be an issue.

Ram- 16gb ddr3 g skill sniper gaming series 1866


Also I know off topic but I just moved to socal, fontana/San Bernardino area. I used to have verizon fios back in NY and that's only availible though frontier here (from what I've heard there the worst thing in the world). All I can find that's decent is twc, any tips on that is bonus brownie points.

Thanks all!

 

[StormBrew]

I would go with the 990fx for several reasons. First of all, the 990 boards are notorious for being better over clockers than the 970 series, who would have issues with their heat spreaders. I used to have the old Gigabyte 990 board for my 8350 and it worked great. Just be wary on how much you want to overclock. While the new Wraith cooler is a vast improvement over the old model, the new one still is a stock cooler. If you ever get a better cooler, you'll have a much nicer time overclocking with the 990 board vs the 970.

My only concern is that you may have gone overkill on the fans, haha. Here's a video explaining why adding so many fans doesn't help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OmkmluAYAQ

Still, you should be fine. The 990 offers great a good upgrade path, and will be great for overclocking.
Best of luck! (and it's good to meet another Californian )

 

[Darkbreeze]

The 990fx Gaming is easily a better choice. Better features overall including M.2 drive support, better quality/shielded audio, more power phase, better chipset/VRM heatsinks, USB Type C, USB DAC and it's a newer architecture. It also has support for up to 220w processors, not that I'd recommend using one, but having support for them generally means the board is far more capable when it comes to overclocking the 8xxx series chips. The 9xxx series chips are really a useless waste of money, and are basically a running joke amongst enthusiasts who know better.

And as far as the fans go, there is no such thing as "overkill" in my book. More fans always means that whatever fans there are can sustain a desired level of cooling longer without having to speed up as soon, thereby reducing the potential for noise under loads. I'd make sure that the rear fan location is populated though, as you didn't mention that in your breakdown of fan locations you intend to use. The rear exhaust and the rear TOP exhaust, are probably the two most important fans in any system aside from the one inside the PSU, which is and should be an entirely separate system, and the CPU fan.


If you do go with a 970 series board, the ASRock 970 performance is probably the best AM3+ board out there under 100 bucks.