MSI 970A-G46 And FX 8350?

[kmanleafs]

Hey Everyone!
Im am Planning to make a Gaming/School PC Soon!
I am Going to use The AMD FX 8350 and a MSI 970A-G46 for a Motherboard...
I want to know if i will be able to Overclock the CPU to at LEAST 4.3 GHz...
I want to know if this Combo will be good...
Will the Stock Cooler be good enough or will i need a cooler...
Thank You In Advance!
(And Should i get WIndows 8or 7)

 

[Guest]

Go with a higher end AMD AM3+ motherboard, one with a 990X or 990FX chipset for better overclocking, even if you have to downgrade to an FX-8320, because of your budget limitations. With an FX-8320 you can easily hit 4.2 GHz, before you would even need to up the voltage.

Now, let me make this point very clear, do NOT overclock on stock cooler, even if others have done it. Get at least a cheap aftermarket cooler like a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.

 

[kmanleafs]

If I Do Not Overlock...can i still use the motherboard? And Thanks 4 the reply i might consider it!

 

[Guest]

If I Do Not Overlock...can i still use the motherboard? And Thanks 4 the reply i might consider it!

Well, I do not know if MSI has fixed it, but one of the Customer Support responses on NewEgg was as followes:

Dear Valued Customer,

We apologize for the issues that you are having with this product.
Currently, this board can handle all 125W CPUs except if it's an 8-core 125W.

If you have any questions, feel free to let us know at usreview@msi.com.

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

So, unless you are buying an FX-6300 series proc I would not use that mobo, go with and ASUS equivalent.

 

[Multiple Man]

If I Do Not Overlock...can i still use the motherboard? And Thanks 4 the reply i might consider it!

Well, I do not know if MSI has fixed it, but one of the Customer Support responses on NewEgg was as followes:

Dear Valued Customer,

We apologize for the issues that you are having with this product.
Currently, this board can handle all 125W CPUs except if it's an 8-core 125W.

If you have any questions, feel free to let us know at usreview@msi.com.

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

So, unless you are buying an FX-6300 series proc I would not use that mobo, go with and ASUS equivalent.

Great find, thank you. I thought I'd chime in here since I'm in pretty much the same boat. Since that mobo clearly has problems with 8-core, would the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 be an acceptable substitution? So, that mobo with the FX 8350. Also my card is GTX 650Ti. Hopefully those three components together would be a solid performer. Appreciate the help and sorry if I shouldn't be bumping someone else's query; I just saw that I was looking at the same stuff.

 

[Bryant Vo]

Um Idk what MSI was saying about that but I am currently running the exact same mobo and cpu the only difference is that i have the cooler master v6gt heatsink and this thing is running fine stable and cool and efficient. So far the only thing i have done was +1 step the HT speed and +2 the gpu setting. Also still running fine I can run mostly anything smoothly. Unless we are talking about games because I got a passed down graphics card because my sfs one PASSATED on me. So my new goal is to get the a msi radeon GPU and crossfire 2 of them.

 

[probal malakar]

you can use the motherboard. but it sure would stop your processor from its full performance. instead go for an as rock 990fx extreme 3/4. would be few bucks costlier but worth. you can do watever you want with it then.