Also if you're close to a Microcenter for pickup, don't forget about the CPU/Motherboard combos. Some combos have the motherboard free or deeply discounted.
If you're going to pickup this processor I wouldn't want the combo mojo Micro deal. Low end board that will cause bottleneck and are for slow processor. Save that $$$ toward a good board that will support the raw muscle of your chip and never go cheap on mother board.
^ Unless you are planning on overclocking, a cheap board is as fast as an expensive one. It's not even chipset based any longer since the memory controller is built into the CPU and PCIe has to operate at the same speed on all (given same PCIe revision #).
However with it being a 125W CPU, I would leave some margin and not get a board that only supports up to 140W CPUs, insisting on one that has the 6 pin rather than 4 pin, 12V CPU power connector.
The FX-8320 is not currently included in a MC bundle deal with a motherboard, but if it was, I'd certainly take a free (AR) motherboard to save for another project if it wasn't the one I chose to use with this processor.
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However with it being a 125W CPU, I would leave some margin and not get a board that only supports up to 140W CPUs, insisting on one that has the 6 pin rather than 4 pin, 12V CPU power connector.
http://www.microcenter.com/site/products/amd_bundles.aspx
Thank you!