[LAU] Looking for AMD motherboard with PCI slot

[david]

On 01/06/2018 08:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 05:18:51 +0000 (UTC), Ivan K wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> So for a processor for the ASUS board (PRIME B350-PLUS),
>> I could go two ways:
>>
>> (1) RYZEN 5 quad-core (or 6-core)  and a third party
>> graphics card.
>>
>> or:
>>
>> (2) AMD A10-Series APU 7th Gen A10-9700
>> 4-core CPU/6-core GPU and use the onboard
>> Integrated AMD Radeon R Series Graphics.
>>
>> What are people's opinions?
>> Should I prefer one or the other?
> 
> Consider power consumption, costs and the amount of fans (noise).

That applies regardless of processor. I don't know power consumption of 
Ryzen+basic graphics card vs APU, but I'd go with the Ryzen either way.

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