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I have that exact same set up with respect to mobo, SSD and CPU - a HD 5870 card works perfectly well on the set up too. The graphics card sticks out over the edge very slightly. But it does so with most full size motherboards anyway including my Rampage ExtremeII.

The motherboard is really very overclock friendly. And you will find that getting your CPU up to 3.6GHz is no problem at all. I would go with what you have selected.
 
The surprising thing was that the temps even with the stock Intel cooler were pretty good when over-clocked to 3.6GHz. And I had the CPU up as high at 4.2GHz with the stock cooler. For 24/7 use I was more than happy with the 3.6GHz that it currently runs at.

Yes you can have two SATA drives. I put the SSD (oh the one you have ordered does not come with a caddy by the way) in the 2.5 slot. And used both the 3.5 bays.

The only noisy part of my set up was one of the hard drives but I replaced the WD one with at Samsung F4 and now it is quite. The Intel cooler is quite too. I ended up using a Prolimatech low profile cooler but OCUK do not stock it.
 
My m-itx build is pretty much identical to that spec, apart from the fact I went for an i5-760 and a Vertex 2E.

I've overclocked my cpu to 3.4ghz (155 x 22) at 1.26v. I've left turbo enabled so I actually get 3.87ghz in lightly threaded apps. As you may have seen in my thread in the SFF section I'm using a corsair H50 for cooling. It required some modding to the case to fit, and it restricts your max GFX card length but it works brilliantly, my cpu idles at 25-30c (I have speedstep enabled), and doesn't get any higher than 55-60c when under full load in LinX.

I have tried higher clocks (without turbo enabled of course) but I just can't get it stable. I can boot and get in to windows just fine at anything up to 4.2ghz, but I can't complete more than a few passes of LinX without hard lock-ups, no matter how silly I get with voltages. My current clock is rock solid stable, plenty fast, and runs nice and cool so I'll leave it be :)

The GA-H55N supports an 1156 i7 but you can't use a 6gb kit because 6gb kits are triple-channel, the GA-H55N is dual-channel and only has two memory slots. You'll have to use 4gb or 8gb.

I'm personally going to be buying a Gainward GTX 460 gfx card soon, it's a short card at 8" long and has the PCI-E power connectors at the top of the card so they won't foul my H50 rad.
 
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smoove said:
Will the 300w psu be enough for a high end gfx card?
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It won't power I high-end card, but it's enough for mid-range cards like the 5770, and possibly just enough for a GTX 460. I personally upgraded mine to the 450w Silverstone item to give me more headroom.
 
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