low cost upgrade from X3-455?

Picking up son's computer to work on in a couple days. Says it won't turn on. Was thinking I can do a low cost upgrade (mobo & CPU) for him as I have the other parts (DDR3-1600 ram, 128Gb SSD, Asus GTX760 2Gb, 650w psu) I can put in.

Current system:
Motherboard-Biostar TA870U3+
CPU- AMD Athlon II X3-455 3.3Ghz triple-core
Memory-8Gb (2x4Gb) GSkill Ripjaws DDR3-1333
Videocard- Sapphire Radeon HD5850 1Gb
Harddrive- Western Digital Caviar Black 1.5Tb
DVDRW- Samsung SH-222AB 22x
Wireless-Airlink 101 150/mbs PCI card

Have a MicroCenter 45 minutes away in Cambridge, MA. Trying to be in the $175 range with one of their cpu/mobo bundle deals.

FX8320/ ASUS M5A97 R2.0 $170 or FX8350/ASRock 970 Extreme3 $175

Not sure which is the better mobo of those 2. The 8350 with the Asus board is $200. The 8350 with a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P is $195 Worth the extra $ for one of those 2 boards?

Sam

 

the asus has 4+2 power phases and the asrock has 4+1 power phases

if you are overclocking this will cause the vrm's to get hot BUT both boards are good and can handle the FX 8xxx series no problem and for the avg user dont need overclocking anyway

 

Id go with either on that is the best quality that is cheaper.

 

Neither are bad, but I can tell you from experience that the ASUS M5A97 is solid and very easily overclocks the FX to 8350 speeds and beyond. Sinks on the VRM's as well