Good advice.

I saw Buck's recommendation for a mother board. Since I'm not doing much gaming at all on my PC, is there any other recommendations?

I'll be making this purchase probably around Black Friday, so I have some time to get what I need.

Damn dude, do you have enough CP tabs open? Wtf?

I wish I could be of further assistance but I've never owned or built an AMD rig - Intel only.

That said, Gigabyte produces the most reliable boards out there these days (IME, anyway) so I'd stick with them, if possible.

As I mentioned earlier, Amazon has amazing deals with free shipping and even moreso on Black Friday. Good luck! :)

Yep - that's where I plan on buying from.

Very strange. I did a clean install, and it didn't work. I was using an 850 EVO that was 480 or 500 GB though. Maybe it was that one specifically.

TBG, what kind of gaming do you want to be doing on this? Your video card is super low end, but if you're playing games that don't tax your system, then you can do better with the other components to make your PC better.

You gotta get off the RAM train.

Its not going to make any discernible difference really.

SSD, CPU will be your biggest upgrades

Next to no gaming. Did some about 5 years ago, but nothing major.

I do a ton of paperwork on this PC and need it to load fast, access fast, and transfer fast.

I only currently have 4GB installed Ram. I'd like to get to 16 if I'm replacing the CPU and MB.

I was thinking you where keeping those.

That being said then, the RAM upgrade is fine, but most people dont need more than 8. I mean if you are going bigger budget and are going to do RAM heavy stuff like video editing or live encoding then maybe.

8 should be fine and save you a couple bucks. If you are dead set on it, it wont hurt.

This would be my recommendation for your needs, for what it's worth.

AMD A10-7890K APU (Quad-Core 4.1 GHz FM2+ 95W Radeon R7 Graphics) $148.99
MSI Radeon R7 250 GPU (2GB 128-Bit PCI Express 3.0x16 w/CrossFireX Support) $62.99
ASUS A88XM-A (FM2+ Bolton D4 MicroATX Motherboard) $74.99
G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2x4GB DDR3 2400 SDRAM) $54.99
PNY CS1311 240GB SATAIII SSD $73.34
Total $415.30 all through Newegg
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Set up Radeon Dual-Graphics, which uses the APU integrated R7 chip and the dedicated R7 card in a Crossfire setup to increase graphics performance.

I'll never purchase ASUS again.

Their failure rate is like 40%. It's a waste of time.

Interesting. I've never had one DOA and never had one last less than 7 years. Their failure rate is among the lowest in the industry, and usually is the lowest. Spouting off with 40% is ridiculous when a good portion of their boards are under 3%. If you were talking ASRock, I'd be more inclined to believe you. When I checked rates a year ago or so, they were over 10% while ASUS was under 2%. Appears they must have had some problems as they have always been solid.

Edit: Any board between MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, and ASRock should be pretty good (with all routinely having sub 3% failure rates), unless you're building a server then you might want to look at Intel or SuperMicro...

Thanks for this. I'm probably going to stick with Gigabyte for my MB since I had success with this one, but everything else looks good.

I'll leave it to others to recommend mobos and other internal components. I want to recommend a mechanical keyboard with brown switches. If you type a lot, it really makes a difference, IMO. I love the way it feels.

I have this one, but there are lots of different brands at different price points. If you live near Micro Center in Overland Park, you can go in the store and feel the different types of mechanical switches in case Brown isn't the one for you.

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