Budget ITX build for a friend

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I am helping a friend with a build as his recent desktop died. His priorities are having an ITX build preferably using the Fractal Node, a proper quad-core and a reasonable amount of RAM (he's a scholar and statistical analyses of the kind we do often need it). He has $500-$600 Australian to work with. The best priced store near us is MSY. This build includes a GPU that is good enough for casual gaming (mentioned he'd prefer to have one), but he can live without a dedicated GPU if needs be.

 He has a HDD, screen, keyboard and mouse already.

Any recommendations, comments or things we should know? This is my first build in this form factor as all of my machines have been ATX gaming rigs.

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Most of that looks pretty good, but there's a few things to note:

 

You can't overclock with that CPU.

and the Graphics card is practically the same as the onboard graphics for the CPU.

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build is basicly sollid as a budget desptop. he could offcourse use the igpu if he does not realy need a gpu right away. you can allways decide to trow in a more powerfull gpu later on, if he wants to go gaming. spending monet on such a low end gpu, is a bit like trowing money in the sea, i have to agree with Beheemoth here.

Overclocking is not realy something you would desperately need. even for gaming its not nessary

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Gigabyte GeForce GT 610 1GB Video Card

Integrated graphics on the A10 would beat that.

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agree