question about low profile components

A couple years ago a friend of mine had built a mid-range gaming pc using a D-vine home theatre case for a mutual friend of ours. Long story short, the guy backed out of buying it after it was built, so I ended up buying it from my friend. I am planning on upgrading it since I am becoming a pc only gamer. My question is, are low profile components very limiting vs. normal components? I like the case, but it wouldn't be a huge issue if I had to take everything out an put into a new case in order to upgrade it. I just don't want to limit myself if I don't have to and I don't know a lot about pc components.

Well you wont have access to as many parts but depending on what you want to do may not matter, however if you want a high end GPU you prob wont be able to get it in low profile. Also the other issue with these systems is heat, but again it depends very much on what you want to do. If you want to play games on med - hight then you could buy a LP 7770 and shouldnt have any problems if you want to game at Ultra then pick up a new case. Depending on what you want to spend it may also be worth just building from scratch

Well you wont have access to as many parts but depending on what you want to do may not matter, however if you want a high end GPU you prob wont be able to get it in low profile. Also the other issue with these systems is heat, but again it depends very much on what you want to do. If you want to play games on med - hight then you could buy a LP 7770 and shouldnt have any problems if you want to game at Ultra then pick up a new case. Depending on what you want to spend it may also be worth just building from scratch

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more realistically powercolor has a low profile hd 6850 and a couple of folks made low profile gtx 460's

It's looking more and more like I just need to start over from scratch with a new case and scavenge what I can out of my existing comp. I want to do my best to future proof, so it's not outdated too soon. Right now my comp. does med setting pretty well on most games I have tried. I would like it to be able to do high-ultra settings. As it is I was wanting to add memory, blu-ray drive, and new graphics card. Now that I'm thinking about it, that's most of a computer anyways, lol.