What motherboard for overclocking an 8350?
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How do you know this? Throttling is often caused by overheating VRMs, which is precisely what many people have said, that they've had throttling with the CPU temps being absolutely fine. Why do you never hear of throttling on the Sabertooth?
I know this because I have used these parts, have you?
The CPU will throttle back at around 70c I believe it was, this isnt hard to reach with a poor heatsink and overclock.
Well thanks guys, we can leave it here 
I see both your points
Yeah it is gaming and media, I have a 7970 and a FX6300 at the moment, hence I was after a motherboard for now to run my 6300 then update to probably an 8350 later
I see both your points Yeah it is gaming and media, I have a 7970 and a FX6300 at the moment, hence I was after a motherboard for now to run my 6300 then update to probably an 8350 later
I've used an 8350 and Asus board, and experienced no throttling, like others. The board will throttle a CPU regardless of CPU temps if the VRMs are overheating. Are you saying that Gigabyte improved the VRM thermal design on rev 4 so that it would help with CPU cooling then?
Well thanks guys, we can leave it here
Yeah it is gaming and media, I have a 7970 and a FX6300 at the moment, hence I was after a motherboard for now to run my 6300 then update to probably an 8350 later
Regardless of bickering, just avoid rev 3
It's obsoleted now by the improved rev 4 anyway.People have very lately been posting good solid 4.8GHz overclocks on 8350s with the Sabertooth.
Well thanks guys, we can leave it here
Yeah it is gaming and media, I have a 7970 and a FX6300 at the moment, hence I was after a motherboard for now to run my 6300 then update to probably an 8350 later
I tried to leave it days ago, but its been brought back up incorrectly again.
Moving on you have two choices,
1) Sell the FX6300 and get a Intel i5/i7
2) buy a board such as the UD3 and pop your FX6300 in it and then find a FX8350 or what ever is supported by the board on the 2nd hand market later on.
So you have never used a Gigabyte AM3+ board?
The Rev4.0 has a improved PWM design to support 220W TDP FX CPU's and a new USB controller that is it.
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Well lets assume you bought a i5 4670K then according to this comparison - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=837
You get good gains.
There are lots of discussions about 8350s vs 4670K. It depends on the games you want to run. Developers favour the 8350 for next gen games (or an i7), due to the increased threads. Either processor will be more than fine for current games.
Yeah I have read those threads, people certainly get quite erm keen on the subject. That was swaying me to get the motherboard now tbh so I could upgrade the processor later and its not all 1 big expense. As the next AMD and intel chips seem to be quite a way off
No, since I've read no reports of VRM throttling on Asus boards, while I've read loads of reports on the UD3 board. The massive heat pipe on the VRMs in rev 4 makes it quite clear it's addressing overheating problems. There's absolutely no point in discussing this further, you've made your stance clear and I have mine. I've emailed Gigabyte tech support for clarification about the revisions and overclocking 8350s.
Good, drop it then.
Yup, they get heated. It's a very good idea to upgrade in steps to save money. A good £120-£130 board and your current 6300 overclocked to 4.5GHz or more will make it fly in most games. A lot of games rely on one main thread and use others to 'help', and overclocking the main thread helps to make the others run much more efficiently too.
Politeness harms nobody. Particularly from a forum staff member.
Well Intels broadwell is 1150 also, but there are rumours (just rumours) that the new chips wont work in Z87 boards.
The pin outs may very well be different despite still using 1150 pins.
The other rumour I heard was AM3+ is being ditched too for FM2+ FM3.
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AM3+ might not receive Steamroller. There are rumours it won't. It's far from certain, as AMD hasn't said anything to indicate it, while they did say that there'd be another CPU after Piledriver that would run on AM3+. They haven't announced any plans for Steamroller on AM3+ yet, while Steamroller on FM2+ is coming very soon, which is causing the rumours.
