MotherBoard Bottleneck?

[kirksman101]

I had a Gigabyte GA‑970A‑D3P but realized that it only supports 32GB of RAM, so I was looking for a MATX board(so I could get a smaller case) instead and found the AsRock 970M Pro3 which supports 64GB of RAM, I've been playing two games the most recently one being SpinTires, the other being Portal 2 , I used to have solid 60 FPS in both games(with my original mobo), but now it dips down as far as 40-ish FPS with the new mobo, so I was wondering if I'm bottlenecking or something. (my specs are: GPU:EVGA GTX 960 SSC, CPU:AMD FX-8320  RAM: Crucial 2x 8GB) 

[Guest]

No mobo doesn't bottleneck. Look at CPU and GPU usage of both game. And RAM certainly won't bottleneck. Those games don't even need more than 8GB

[doomsriker]

Most games use around 4gb maybe 8gb of ram. Ram is not your bottleneck. Believe me.

Try replaceing your thermal paste. You might have messed it up or something. It seems like your CPU is thermal throtleing.

[PSUGuru]

Check your GPU and CPU temps.

[dragoon20005]

motherboard do not bottleneck but in the case of AMD boards

 

the VRMs will limit your CPU power and throttle your CPU when it overheats

 

 

 

 

[kirksman101]

8 hours ago, Strike105X said:

Actually it might be the mobo, 4+1 is to little of a power phase design (vrm's) for an fx8320, not to mention that it does not even have heatsinks on the asrock, and they are low quality vrm's. You're previous Mobo wasn't great for an fx 83xx cpu either, again a 4+1 power phase design, but they had better quality build and a heatsink. 

so you're saying that my previous mobo isn't a really good mobo but had a better build quality and better heatsinks?

[kirksman101]

12 hours ago, Strike105X said:

Yes. Asrock likes a lot to push manufacturing costs to the borderline, but not that much that they will break, just enough that they will end up not working right. Make no mistakes others like gigabyte did it on the FX line as well, but not as bad as Asrock, there sins are more regarding revisions, one revision of a board will be awesome with the other ending up bad... because they decided to reduce costs... Of course there's also MSI's engineers that for many years they pushed things so far that the mobos will break for sure, i dunno what does guys where smocking.

thanks for the help, i'm just gonna switch back to my original motherboard for now. to be honest I just wanted the asrock mobo just because it supports 64GB while the Gigabyte only supports 32GB

Edited February 14, 2017 by kirksman101

[Maxinfamily]

1 hour ago, Strike105X said:

If you don't already have the ram i think its better investing in oc (i.e. a better mobo and cooling system) then another 32gb of ram, then again I dunno what you need it for.

I agree, now a days theres no point to get 64 GB on a pc with a 970. I would invest also on pheripherals like a good pair of studio headphones (dont you ever buy "gaming headphones" ò.ó) , an ergonomic mouse, mechanical keyboard, a good screen, some good speakers, etc... What you choose to upgrade is up to you

[kirksman101]

22 hours ago, Strike105X said:

If you don't already have the ram i think its better investing in oc (i.e. a better mobo and cooling system) then another 32gb of ram, then again I dunno what you need it for.

by "oc" do you mean overclocking? (I'm kind of new to the pc gaming community) also, what motherboard would you say is better than the Gigabyte mobo that I have now? (preferably an AM3+ socket so I don't have to change cpu's) 

[kirksman101]

21 hours ago, Maxinfamily said:

I agree, now a days theres no point to get 64 GB on a pc with a 970. I would invest also on pheripherals like a good pair of studio headphones (dont you ever buy "gaming headphones" ò.ó) , an ergonomic mouse, mechanical keyboard, a good screen, some good speakers, etc... What you choose to upgrade is up to you

I don't have a 970  ( wish I did though) and I have a decent pair of headphones, HyperX Cloud 2, and all the other peripherals I have are fine except the mouse, the left mouse button will sometimes stop working while I hold it down... 

[kirksman101]

23 hours ago, Strike105X said:

Depends on how much you want to invest, a safe bet is something like an Asus 970 gaming aura, or asus m5a97fx pro, or m5a99x evo, those should oc nicely and have the power delivery solid enough. There also might be the MSI 970A pro gaming carbon mobo but I dunno if they fixed the thermal pads issue that the regular one had.

I'll have to check those out sometime. Thanks! The Asus 970 aura is really nice looking. (also kind of weird that the 64GB version of that mobo is a bit cheaper than the 32GB version)

Edited February 16, 2017 by kirksman101