What motherboard can i upgrade to on this system?

leung19

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Oct 1, 2013
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I was planning on building my own HTPC, instead I bought this desktop for cheap
Cheaper and better than what I can build.

http://www.staples.com/Lenovo-H535-57317328-Desktop-PC/product_57448

Only thing I do not like about this is the motherboard, only have two SATA connection, so I can only put 2 HDD on it.

Can I upgrade to diff motherboard on this unit? How would that work with already installed window8?

Is it going to be impossible to so??

I was thinking I can use the CPU, RAM, HDD, and other part, and add a new MB and case to build my own HTPC... is that possible???

if not I guess I will just return it

thanks
 

Wolfshadw

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It's possible, but given all the grief it would likely cause and the cost, you'd probably be better off by just adding a SATA controller card like this one. This card would give you two extra SATA 6.0 ports. Of course, this assumes that you have an available PCI-E slot in your computer.

-Wolf sends