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Originally Posted by hometeam

There are so many ways this could be gone about, but I will tell you im still not a fan of APUs, especially when you can crank out more raw power for the money.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($149.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($49.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($35.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($40.99 @ B&H)
Total: $275.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-30 12:22 EDT-0400

Add a used GPU from r/hardwareswap, around 80-100 and your in for pretty damn cheap and have something with about 60% more processing power (will end up with more GPU power too) and way more value. SSD you can play with too but this asrock board is also full size ATX and is superior in every way to that ASUS board

While your at it, unload your old stuff on r/hardwareswap as well, might get a little bit of money back for it.

Absolutely agree there are many ways to go about it. I'm not sure he's gaining much by going with an FX 8xxx processor over a quad core FX 4xxx. He could save $70-80 there and go with a much better dedicated graphics card for when he does game. It doesn't take much computing power to do word processing, which is his primary activity. Want to give him enough graphics to stream/play some games.

I'm kinda thinking a FX-4350 (On sale for $79.99 right now) with a better GPU would be better. Add in a MSI Radeon RX470 4GBx256-bit ($169.99) and he'd have a decent machine. With your listed board, ram, and SSD, he'd come in at $375.95.

If he goes with these 125 W processors, he should be sure his case has good air flow. AMD CPU's in general run hot.

Ultimately his decision and he has to decide what's best for him.