Like someone gave me a budget and I will probably wait for the R5 1400 to fall or get a high end R3, then do you recommend getting an A320 motherboard as the owner is not going to do an Overclock on the CPU and he just wants something with more oomph than his Core i5 sandy bridge laptop
If you're sure hes not going to overclock and the board has all the features that he wants, stuff like ports, PCIE slots, M.2 slots etc. Then yes, no reason to go with anything higher its all in the chipset after that.
OK, will probably go for B350 then, as he is being very frugal so I will gladly donate to him a GeForce 210 then when it's his birthday he can get a decent card