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I am attempting to build my first pc. I want to keep the budget around or under 200$ excluding windows, office,and a monitor (I can get both for free). I recently made a pcpartpicker account and have been playing around with it. From research and videos I have selected what seem to be the best parts for the price, but then again I have no prior knowledge. If anyone could just look through the list and make sure it will actually all work together and function well (for a 200$ pc) I would really appreciate it! Also for some more info, I am not really planning on doing too much gaming, mostly going to be a pc for schoolwork (I am a college student). This is the reason I did not add a graphics card, but I would also like to use a dual monitor setup so I am wondering if that will be alright with no gc. Thank you all for any help!
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Everything should work together fine and it looks like the motherboard comes with enough onboard graphics connections to run more than one monitor. The big thing to remember with this type setup is that integrated graphics shares RAM with the rest of the system but like you said you may not have too many issues if you're just doing school work. On the subject of RAM you should to upgrade to 8GB as Windows 10 requires at least 1GB but it'll be more like 2 GB of usage. That along with any webpages you open will take even more an max your RAM out and multitasking will be effected which you'll be doing a lot of with school work. So in conclusion upgrade to 8GB of RAM and it should serve your purposes well.
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Everything should work together fine and it looks like the motherboard comes with enough onboard graphics connections to run more than one monitor. The big thing to remember with this type setup is that integrated graphics shares RAM with the rest of the system but like you said you may not have too many issues if you're just doing school work. On the subject of RAM you should to upgrade to 8GB as Windows 10 requires at least 1GB but it'll be more like 2 GB of usage. That along with any webpages you open will take even more an max your RAM out and multitasking will be effected which you'll be doing a lot of with school work. So in conclusion upgrade to 8GB of RAM and it should serve your purposes well.
 
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PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VqsMxY
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VqsMxY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.48 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B250M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Patriot - Signature Line 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($27.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital - AV-GP 320GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($19.38 @ Amazon)
Case: Rosewill - SRM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($19.99 @ Jet)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $218.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 02:45 EDT-0400

this build will offer a much better upgrade path as it includes ddr4 ram , 7th gen intel cpu support, a cpu that is comparable to an intel core i3 7th gen, a good quality power supply and a 320gb hdd which will be fine for web browsing and windows installation.
 
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