Trying to choose between a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, and an Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0 to get the best day to day OC for an FX-8350 on water for a secondary rig on a budget.
The Gigabyte has 8+2 and I like the colour better, and the rev 4.0 has some improvements apparently. The Asus has 6+2 I believe, but probably better ram clocking and I'm putting an old Hynix BFR kit in it. However the Gigabyte will be $20+ cheaper.
The secondary box currently has an M5A97 R2.0, which doesn't OC for crap. 4+1 phase. This was a system with some nice parts in it that I bought cheap, but I can see I'll have to replace the mobo. It struggles to get either of my 8350's stable at 4.2, despite one of them being known to hit 5.0. I'm using budget semi-custom water in the rig, basically a Swiftech H220 with a 2x120 rad added (giving 2) and an old gpu block that is in the loop but not attached to the gpu yet lol.
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