How does this MicroATX build look?

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Hi, My brother is in need of a new pc as the motherboard of his Laptop died on him tonight.He doesnt like normal PC's because they are too bulky, so the build would have to be Micro-Atx, Mini-itx or a laptop. The budget is £450-£500 too. I threw together a quick build which seemed okay:

Hyundai H95W 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor £89.69

Antec NSK 2480 Desktop Case - Black/Silver (380W Earth Watts PSU) £86.24

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66G-02141) £73.59
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (90-C1CLP0-J0UAN00Z) £60.94

Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H AMD 740G (AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.04

Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5) £49.44

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ 2.60GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM AMD Athlon £43.99

Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (0A35415) £42.99

Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Total: £518.89

is there any glaring flaws with this build?
Its over the £500 by a small margin, but if Windows is removed then it falls back under. Probably wont be any point in getting windows anyway as Windows 7 RC is out soon.

Thanks!
 
I would personally go for a proper mATX case and separate ATX PSU as i've heard some unfavourable things about the NSK.

I've also seen it cook a friend's Athlon system first hand, they get very hot in there!
 
Why not one of the low power AMD cpus? Was shocked looking at that spec, checked out the ram and it's gone up by a tenner....
 
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