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Question

HELP!!! - choosing parts for a desktop

Mar 22, 2015 2:59AM PDT

I was wondering whether the following parts would work together:

Motherboard - FM2+
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboa...

CPU - AMD A4 - 6300
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processor...

Case - Any Micro ATX case
http://www.amazon.co.uk/AVP-M89-Micro-ATX-Case/dp/B00MZ...

RAM - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4GB-2x2GB-DDR3-1333MHz-PC3-10...

GPU -

Hard drive -
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrive...

Optical drive -

PSU -
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/powersupp...

Furthermore I would like in the future to upgrade this as this is an extremely cheap computer i want to build so I can build a desktop first before buying expensive parts so would you say that these parts are upgradable i.e. is the motherboard good enough? e.g. using a better processor, adding a video card, adding extra ram etc

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My opinion is while this will be cheap it will be wasteful.
Mar 22, 2015 3:02AM PDT

It's not like you'll be gaming on this given the micro case.

What do you have now? It may be far better than this new PC.
Bob

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Cheap but wasteful
Mar 22, 2015 5:39AM PDT

That is what i want for now as I want to upgrade once I have the cash (in a few months) but atm I need a temporary cheap desktop that can't do very much but in the future i would like to do gaming so would you say these parts are easily upgradable???

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I'm going with no.
Mar 22, 2015 5:45AM PDT

You started with a micro case. The stories about heat issues are legend. Why repeat the story?
Bob