First Mini-ITX Build, thoughts?

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shipinabottle

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This is my first build so I was looking for some feedback, already have my Roccat Kone & Arvo, and a couple of internal HDD's.
Any help is much appreciated :)

Monitor - Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - £319.99

Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £189.95

CPU - Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - £179.99

CPU Cooler - Zalman CNPS20LQ CPU Liquid Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1155/1156/1366/AMD FM1/AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2) - £75.98

Motherboard - ASRock Z77E-ITX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard - £123.98

Power Supply - Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 2 620w '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - £89.99

OS SSD - OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) - £47.99

Secondary SSD (couple of games) - OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) - £79.99

Case - BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black - £64.99

RAM - TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) - £26.99

Total with VAT - £1,313.74
 
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Hey Banzai, yeah my previous full sized rig didn't have an internal drive because I found I rarely ever used it, so I thought I may as well continue that with this build. On the rare occasion it was needed I'd just an external one.

Thanks!
 
Hi Gav, thanks for the suggestion. I see a lot of people going for the 7850 over the non ti 660. I was taking a look at some benchmarks and the scores seem to lend themselves to the 660, is there some specific advantages the 7850 holds?

Cheers!
 
Thanks for the spec tamzzy, I've adjusted my build to take on board those changes. My only question was about the SSD, I thought I should get the two, one for OS exclusive (no programs) and the other for a handful of games, in case there was a performance hit running the OS and games off the same SSD, do you think this would be the case or should I just go with the one?
 
Update:

PSU was indeed too large. Have ordered a replacement in the 550w OCZ Fatality Modular. Smaller, and seen it fits from another Bitfenix build.

Other than that, everything is looking smashing, bit of a squeeze with the Heatsink, but it's fitted in. Cables so far minimal and away.

One thing, with the H60, you'll need a 3pin splitter to accommodate case fans as well, as the Motherboard only has 2.
 
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