[LAU] Looking for AMD motherboard with PCI slot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 21:37:32 -1000, david wrote:
>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.

When I used an additional PCIe graphics, it was a passive graphics, IOW
a graphics without a fan.