content: The more capable boards tend to be 300ish.  I suspected this might be the case. Right now I am running my last build from about 5 years ago- A10 7860 on an Asrock AM2A88X.and that setup was less than $300- not counting memory, case, and peripherals, etc. of course. If it is going to cost $300+ I guess I will just keep plodding along with this old workhorse. Edit : Here is a cap showing my resource usage right now with at least a dozen Brave tabs open and 8 projects open in Gimp. Spikes in CPU usage are GIMP actions: https://i.ibb.co/pXNvLf9/Dialy-Driver-Resource-01.jpg