Can someone please explain what's wrong here?

[TheXenonMyth]

Guys im in a bit of a dilemma.

So, around Feb 2014 I built myself a new PC based around the AMD 760G chipset or so i thought. When the build was complete, I ran CPU-Z on it for the very first time. In the chipset section for my motherboard (ASrock 970 Pro2) it said 780G. I thought nothing of it and concluded it to be an error on the side of the application. Now, recently I bought myself a new graphics card, a GTX960 from ASUS (Strix version). The processor (FX4300) on my rig was bottlenecking it just a little bit so I proceeded to overclock it. But, the dang thing wont go above 4.0GHz at whatever voltage I tried. So, started researching a little bit regarding my MOBO and found that it has a 4+1 phase design which was bottlenecking the overclock and wont let it go past 4.0. I again fired up CPU-Z to "REALLY" check out the specs on my mobo and again noticed the 780G denomination on the chipset. This time I also had Speccy installed here and fired it up as well and found that it too says the same thing. But, ASrock site still deems my mobo to be a 760G based one. Im in a little bit of a dilemma here now. Can someone please explain what is going on here??

[Guest Kloaked]

ASRock uses CPUID's HWMonitor for that, and it's sometimes inaccurate in what hardware it reads.

 

For example, it tells me my Surface Pro 3's CPU is an i3 CPU when Windows is telling me that it's the i5 version.

[incarnate]

Well, regardless of the chipset a 4+1 power phase board for fx cpus won't yield good oc results. Not sure why the chipsets aren't matching tho.

[Guest SkyFall]

Have you installed the latest BIOS from ASRock?

[ApolloX75]

Sorry to say but that is a terrible choice of a board. Any 700 series chipset is worthless, they date back to 2008 and ran AM2+ boards for crying out loud. It's just a recycled junk pile of a chipset.

4+1 VRM setup will not let you get anywhere with an overclock either. You'll need to drop the money on a 990X or 990FX board with at least a 6+2 design. Or a 970 board but they are generally all 4+1 or 6+1. The MSI 970 Gaming is one of the only ones with a 6+2 VRM setup.

The obligatory "buy an i5" posts should start any minute now.

[TheXenonMyth]

I do feel I was kinda ripped off on this motherboard and yes, I would really like to upgrade to an i5 or something but i am cash strapped right now actually. It will be sometime before i can build a new rig as this one is only 1.5 years old at the most. Thanks for the insights guys. Really appreciated.