Good MB for a AMD A10-7700K Kaveri Quad-Core 3.4 GHz CPU?

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#191085 22-Jan-2016 18:04

Picked up one of these CPU's on a recent US trip and 16GB of DDR3 Crucial RAM

Decided to get the MB back here since that if that fails it's easier to return than if I got that in the US also.

Goal is good system for games (not high-end) and general web browsing etc.

Thought I would go for one of these MB's

http://www.gigabyte.co.nz/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4727#ov

The CPU has built-in graphics which should be pretty good but can upgrade the graphics later if he wishes.

Probably put Windows 7 on it(though he has the upgrade to 10), 256GB SSD.

The price is right for this MB

http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=MBDGBM3150&name=Gigabyte-F2A88XM-HD3-AMD-A88X-for-Socket-FM2+-FM2-

but thoughts on alternatives would be appreciated

Thanks

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#1477006 22-Jan-2016 18:22

Yeah I was looking at o e of those boards also. Mainly for the 8 sata ports to run my server. Probably a similer specced a10 cpu, and my existing 32gb of ram ( I run a number of vms, that why the excessive memory).

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#1477062 22-Jan-2016 20:20

I have the same motherboard on my son's PC, hosting an A6-7400K.

It's mainly used for web browsing and gaming at 1366x768.

Seems to handle basic things fine, with that CPU we had to turn down settings for the Battlefront Beta.

But the board is fine and a cheap Kaveri option

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#1477886 24-Jan-2016 18:48

lurker:

I have the same motherboard on my son's PC, hosting an A6-7400K.

It's mainly used for web browsing and gaming at 1366x768.

Seems to handle basic things fine, with that CPU we had to turn down settings for the Battlefront Beta.

But the board is fine and a cheap Kaveri option

+1 this motherboard. Literally just finished building my HTPC with an A6-7400k, the GA-F2A88XM-HD3 & a Silvestone PS08 case. Went with that motherboard because of the 8x Sata ports (Im using 4x 3TB HDDs in a parity Storage Spaces setup). Plays all my blurays @ 1080p on my TV with no issues.

Whatever you do do not buy the OCZ Trion SSDs (https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=432931). This thing is slower than spindle HDDs (real world noticeable performance issues).

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#1478875 26-Jan-2016 10:46

jhsol:
lurker:

I have the same motherboard on my son's PC, hosting an A6-7400K.

It's mainly used for web browsing and gaming at 1366x768.

Seems to handle basic things fine, with that CPU we had to turn down settings for the Battlefront Beta.

But the board is fine and a cheap Kaveri option

+1 this motherboard. Literally just finished building my HTPC with an A6-7400k, the GA-F2A88XM-HD3 & a Silvestone PS08 case. Went with that motherboard because of the 8x Sata ports (Im using 4x 3TB HDDs in a parity Storage Spaces setup). Plays all my blurays @ 1080p on my TV with no issues.

Whatever you do do not buy the OCZ Trion SSDs (https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=432931). This thing is slower than spindle HDDs (real world noticeable performance issues).

Just finished the build this weekend. Using a A10-7700K and Samsung 240GB SSD the build was fine. We put Windows 7 on first (not sure why my son wanted to do that) and after zillions of updates, it did the upgrade to 10.

Only strange thing that I have noticed is that the board doesn't apparently have an onboard speaker or a connetor for an external case speaker so we can't hear POST codes.

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