Rebuilding my AMD PC

[footbrake4life]

Hello, I'm rebuilding my 4 year old gaming PC for my sister since I built a different PC a few months ago. I replaced the PSU but it still won't turn on so I'm thinking its the motherboard. The mobo is an ASRock 970 extreme 3 and the CPU is an AMD 8120 and before the PC randomly stoped working the CPU was OC'd to 4.1ghz. My girlfriend was using it for a while then she gave it back to me and it sat for months before I tried to turn it on for my sister and it wouldn't start. My main question is what does the community recommend for a mid range mobo to support OCing and long hours of gaming. I'm leaning towards the ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 because I like the extreme 3 that's in the PC but I'm also looking at the GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3. Let me know what you guys recommend. Thanks in advance!

 

[maddogfargo]

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Good BIOS, chipset and VRM cooling, 8+2 phase power, LLC. Got my FX6350 to 4.950GHz stable under a Corsair H110 on this board.

The ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty) and the MSI 970 Gaming are also decent 970 boards with 8+2 phase power. But they have voltage offset instead of LLC. It still works for OCing, just not as efficiently.

MSI also just released a black & white themed Krait edition 970 board with LLC, but I haven't heard much about overclocking with it yet.


You do not need a 990FX board for overclocking. You only need a 990FX board for the dual PCIe x16 support if you plan to go SLI or Crossfire with dual GPUs.

 

[footbrake4life]

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Good BIOS, chipset and VRM cooling, 8+2 phase power, LLC. Got my FX6350 to 4.950GHz stable under a Corsair H110 on this board.

The ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty) and the MSI 970 Gaming are also decent 970 boards with 8+2 phase power. But they have voltage offset instead of LLC. It still works for OCing, just not as efficiently.

MSI also just released a black & white themed Krait edition 970 board with LLC, but I haven't heard much about overclocking with it yet.


You do not need a 990FX board for overclocking. You only need a 990FX board for the dual PCIe x16 support if you plan to go SLI or Crossfire with dual GPUs.

She is big into gaming and I'm trying to set her up will something that will last, the GPU in the PC is only a GTX 750 so I'm thinking the chances of SLI are pretty high.