First build

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Hi all, looking to put together my first build and have put together a little basket on this site. Wondering if I could get a little help with it as I'm not entirely sure how good it'll be...
It won't be used for anything too high power, a little bit of gaming (things like DayZ, maybe Skyrim e.t.c) and a little bit of fairly basic sound and video editing for my uni course... little bit of music production that sorta thing.
Component list is as follows:

Motherboard: MSI H77MA-G43 Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX (£74.98)
Processor: Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 - Retail (£87.59)
Graphics Card: Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express (£83.99)
RAM: Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) (£37.99)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) (£59.99)
PSU: OcUK Crusade 650W Dual-Rail High Efficiency '80 Plus' Power Supply (£49.99)
Case: Aerocool Qs-202 Midi Tower Case - Black (£39.98)
Priced at £448.61 on OverClockers (Inc. VAT and delivery)

Would be happy to change any of the parts...the case and PSU in particular I just added on quickly to finish off the build and to get a complete list.
It's come a little under my budget of £500-600 so I'd be prepared to get some more expensive parts if anyone would recommend something different.
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks :)
 
Yehh I can get my OS from my uni which is why I'm gonna put a little more money in to the build.
Also what are thoughts on an SSD. Unnecessary to begin with??
 
Will I need to get an extra cooler, or will the stock cooler with the CPU be sufficient? Just to start off, as I can always upgrade bits later
 
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