I am looking for my first new motherboard in ten years.
I have always preferred AMD processors as they
are just less expensive than Intel, and my preference
existed before the meltdown/spectre flaws of recent
news.
I also need a legacy PCI slot.
I have decided to go with a new Ryzen processor
(I mean, why not?)
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I have only found two ASUS boards with a PCI slot
which can accommodate a Ryzen processor. They are:
Asus B350-PLUS
Asus A320M-C
However, the graphics on both cards reads as follows:
I took this to mean that there is an integrated graphicsIntegrated AMD Radeon R Series Graphics in the 7th Generation A-Series APU [either *1 or *2]
Multi-VGA output support : HDMI/DVI/RGB ports
processor on the board. The above seems to read that way.
However, one person on the net told me that:
And so, my questions:these boards do NOT have integrated GPUs. They have the headers
and ports, but the provision of actual graphics depends on you buying an
AMD APU which contains integrated CPU/GPU. The current Ryzen chips are
NOT APUs, they are CPUs only.
Can you just put a Ryzen AM4 socket processor on this board
and then buy a third party graphics card and put it in the
PCIe slot ?
or
Should I try to get a AMD APU processor for this board ?
I think I would prefer at least four cores for the CPU
as opposed to cores for the graphics processor.
I am not a gamer, and most of the computationally
expensive work I do is with audio.
I would appreciate hearing peoples ideas on
this topic. Thank you.