Mobo choice

[Recruiter]

Hi there Linus Tech Tips community.

 

I want to make an upgrade on my mobo. I have an fx 8320. My old mobo is crashing freezing and all sorts of problems.

What would be the best choice for this cpu? 

 

my first choice was this: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/970-GAMING.html#hero-overview but after some research i saw that this mobo + fx8xxx don`t go that well.... they start to crash from some time or right after 5 minutes...

sooooo then what now? i was thinking of this http://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/990fx extreme3/ or this https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/970-PRO-GAMING-AURA/

 

i can`t afford a very expensive mobo... so my range is like 150$ MAX!!! lower would be wonderfull.

i must tell you that i`m from romania so the availability for all mobos are not that good. if you want i can give you some websites from where i can buy mobos here.

 

Thank you guys for helping.

 

p.s sorry for my bad english.

[Jonathan Lemmens]

1 minute ago, Recruiter said:

Hi there Linus Tech Tips community.

 

I want to make an upgrade on my mobo. I have an fx 8320. My old mobo is crashing freezing and all sorts of problems.

What would be the best choice for this cpu? 

 

my first choice was this: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/970-GAMING.html#hero-overview but after some research i saw that this mobo + fx8xxx don`t go that well.... they start to crash from some time or right after 5 minutes...

sooooo then what now? i was thinking of this http://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/990fx extreme3/ or this https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/970-PRO-GAMING-AURA/

 

i can`t afford a very expensive mobo... so my range is like 150$ MAX!!! lower would be wonderfull.

 

Thank you guys for helping.

 

p.s sorry for my bad english.

Honestly I would look for a used AM3+ mobo. Imo, this system isn't worth it to sink money into new parts for it.

 

The 990FX boards are generally better for overclocking, the 970FX mobos can be hit or miss, as you found with the MSI 970 Gaming. I own a Asus Sabertooth 990FX and I'm very pleased with it. Its an expensive one to buy new if it is even still available, but used for about $50-70 this would be a good deal I guess.

[Recruiter]

the think is that i wanna to upgrade it bit by bit. starting with the mobo, then ram, video card, cpu....

 

so.. then do you recommend 1 of those 2 that i`ve linked?

[kb5zue]

13 minutes ago, Jonathan Lemmens said:

Honestly I would look for a used AM3+ mobo. Imo, this system isn't worth it to sink money into new parts for it.

 

The 990FX boards are generally better for overclocking, the 970FX mobos can be hit or miss, as you found with the MSI 970 Gaming. I own a Asus Sabertooth 990FX and I'm very pleased with it. Its an expensive one to buy new if it is even still available, but used for about $50-70 this would be a good deal I guess.

I would stick with an Asus board.  I also have an Asus TUF Sabertooth 990FX 3.0 board and I think it's great.  It has a button for making sure the memory works ok (called MemOK), a button to power on the mobo outside the case and a BIOS Flashback button in case something goes wrong while trying to flash the board.  It also has a ton of fan headers including a cpu fan, optional cpu fan and water pump fan headers.  Also supports M.2 for an NVME drive.

 

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/TUF-SABERTOOTH-990FX-R3-0/

 

Forgot, I am running an AMD FX8370 cpu at 4.7GHz. with 32 Gigs or Corsair Vengeance ram.

 

[Jonathan Lemmens]

4 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

I would stick with an Asus board.  I also have an Asus TUF Sabertooth 990FX 3.0 board and I think it's great.  It has a button for making sure the memory works ok (called MemOK), a button to power on the mobo outside the case and a BIOS Flashback button in case something goes wrong while trying to flash the board.  It also has a ton of fan headers including a cpu fan, optional cpu fan and water pump fan headers.  Also supports M.2 for an NVME drive.

 

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/TUF-SABERTOOTH-990FX-R3-0/

 

Forgot, I am running an AMD FX8370 cpu at 4.7GHz. with 32 Gigs or Corsair Vengeance ram.

 

The Sabertooth 990FX is a great board, I own it myself. Try to get the revision 1.0 or 2.0, I've heard the 3.0 has terrible boot-looping issues and failing USB ports on some systems. Though the 1.0 and 2.0 don't have the more modern features.

The MemOK button is actually just a clear bios button, it doesn't do anything to the memory other than making sure it runs at stock settings. Nothing special but very useful. 

 

There are a few used Sabertooth 990FX boards on eBay at the moment, you may want to look at those.

[Recruiter]

okey i just found a good deal on an 3.0 one but i have to go for her somewhere and would like to try to test it.... found an 2.0 as well... so what now then... how often are those problems on the 3.0 ? should i risk it?

[Jonathan Lemmens]

17 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Forgot, I am running an AMD FX8370 cpu at 4.7GHz. with 32 Gigs or Corsair Vengeance ram.

Wait. You mean you're getting crashes and freezes while running an OC? Try running at stock, or at least a slightly lesser OC first and see if the problems still persist. Then gradually OC again and see where it starts to fail.

[Recruiter]

1 more think. from the 3 mobos that i said there ? which one is best?

[Jonathan Lemmens]

Just now, Recruiter said:

1 more think. from the 3 mobos that i said there ? which one is best?

The Asrock 990FX extreme, just because it's the only 990FX board you mentioned.