Any thoughts on this First Budget Desktop PC Build? Have you USB Installed Windows 10 to a Gigabyte F2A68HM-H board?

[flow777]

Desktop Budget PC Build for

may use the N64 emulator Project64 for Super Mario 64, streaming Youtube and Netflix, web-surfing and for some simplistic Blender rendering and Photoshop. I have a new Gigabyte - GA-F2A68HM-H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard and a 500GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive that was for my old Toshiba Satellite C655-S5514. I have a Dell Full HD LCD monitor, usb touchpad and keyboard. also have a mouse if needed for setting things up.

Have
Cougar - MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case $43
(has two internal 2.5" drive bays, 1 fan with a 3 pin connector, Micro ATX compatible)
Gigabyte - GA-F2A68HM-H Micro ATX FM2+
(has 4 pin fan sockets)
500gb 2.5" SATA Hard Drive
Full HD Monitor, usb touchpad and keyboard

Planning to buy
AMD - A6-7400K 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor $47
Kingston - HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory $73
Cooler Master - MasterWatt Lite Full Range 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $41
(has 24 pin, 4 pin CPU and SATA power connectors)
Two USB 3.0 to USB 2.0 Converter Cable
Total an additional $160

Question 1
Will this be an okay PC Build?

I have an 8GB usb Flash Drive which I can hopefully use to install windows 10. this may not be a boot option in the bios. the bios may not detect the flash drive. changing the name of the drive may help? I will create a USB bootable media using Media Creation Tool or Rufus.

Question 2
Can Windows 10 be installed using a prepared USB Flash Drive for the Gigabyte F2A68HM-H Motherboard I have?

Someone with a Gigabyte motherboard said:
Here is the solution that worked for me:
1. Insert USB and wait until it loads windows 7 install scree.
2. Don't touch anything & don't move the cursor when you see install screen.
3. Remove USB
4. Click install and wait until it shows - Drivers not found..
5. Insert USB in to another USB port.
6. Click OK and exit that screen that pops up searching for drivers.
7. Click install again.

From The Manual
Boot Option Priorities
Specifies the overall boot order from the available devices. For example, you can set hard drive as the first priority (Boot Option #1) and DVD ROM drive as the second priority (Boot Option #2). The list only displays the device with the highest priority for a specific type. For example, only hard drive defined as the first priority on the Hard Drive BBS Priorities submenu will be presented here. Removable storage devices that support GPT format will be prefixed with "UEFI:" string on the boot device list. To boot from an operating system that supports GPT partitioning, select the device prefixed with "UEFI:" string. Or if you want to install an operating system that supports GPT partitioning such as Windows 7 64-bit, select the optical drive that contains the Windows 7 64-bit installation disk and is prefixed with "UEFI:" string.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

That will be very outdated.

You want to be looking at ryzen at this point. Look into the ryzen 2200g which is also an apu, only downside is you'd need a new motherboard and DDR 4 ram instead of DDR 3.

 

[flow777]

That will be very outdated.

You want to be looking at ryzen at this point. Look into the ryzen 2200g which is also an apu, only downside is you'd need a new motherboard and DDR 4 ram instead of DDR 3.

Time to return the motherboard and buy an am4 socket one. thinking of using an AMD A8-9600 Bristol Ridge Quad-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM4 65W AD9600AGABBOX Desktop Processor Radeon R7.

 

[flow777]

That will be very outdated.

You want to be looking at ryzen at this point. Look into the ryzen 2200g which is also an apu, only downside is you'd need a new motherboard and DDR 4 ram instead of DDR 3.

thanks I'll create a build around the AMD RYZEN 3 2200G Quad-Core 3.5 GHz.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

The good thing about it, you won't be locked into that forever. For example, you should later be able to add a dedicated graphics card and then upgrade to an 8 core CPU if you want.