How can I know whether my PC parts will play nicely together?

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rudyjason

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Hi!

I have a question. Is there any easy way to find out if all of the computer parts I want to order are gonna work together? Or if it's gonna fit in the casing I want to buy? I think I checked over the regular things (CPU socket, ram type, amount of ports for everything, power consumption etc.) but I have no idea how to find out if it will all fit in my case and whether the cpu fan will fit, stuff like that. I don't know if just asking it here with my specs is how I'm supposed to do it, but here goes nothing:

Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X
CPU: AMD A10-7850K
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4G D5
RAM: Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB
PSU: Cooler Master GM G750M
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HDD: Seagate Desktop HDD, 1TB
Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212X
Case: Cooler Master K280

If I need provide any other information I will be glad to do so.
If there's some kind of website that does this kind of checking for you, that would be great. I haven't been able to find a good one.
To summarize: I think I checked the regular stuff but don't know if I overlooked something or whether the parts are all gonna fit nice/play nice together.
I would like to be able to upgrade my ram at a later point (will buy the same dimms) as well as maybe a second 470. If that would increase performance enough to buy one when they get cheaper.

Thanks!
 
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It will all technically work but why buy and expensive cpu with on board graphics when an athlon 860k is the same processor for less money? Rest is okay. But I'd definitely swap CPUs
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lodders

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Yes, that build will work.

However, there are a 2 weak spots in your build,
The processor is really not very good, a i5 6600 on a H170 motherboard would be a far better choice.
A better power supply such as seasonic or evga supernova would last a lot longer
 
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rudyjason

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Thanks for the super quick reply!
Not sure how much faith I should put in this website but it says the benchmarks are way in favor of the A10-7850k:
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-Athlon-X4-860K-vs-AMD-A10-7850K

I also went for this one since I don't want to bottleneck any of the other parts, or am I wrong?

The difference in price is about 35 euro's where I live.
 
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rudyjason

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Thanks, will definitely look into a better PSU then.
The processor isn't good enough? I was hoping this one would be good enough for at least this setup (as not to bottleneck anything)
The processor you mentioned is about twice the price of the one I posted in the original post. So that would be a hard switch for me to make :(
 
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It's the same cpu I actually think the 860 clocks itself slightly higher by itself using all cores. When you see two processors with the same "4" cores and one has better single thread performance and the other one had better multi core the site sucks.
 
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rudyjason

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Thanks!
After checking it out, I was wondering:
Wouldn't this one be even better then?
AMD Athlon X4 880K

That one is still cheaper than my initial choice
 
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rudyjason

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Did not know that, thanks a lot!
Will never use that website again :D
 
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