Mini ITX budget spec

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Looking to build a budget mini-ITX system for gaming on a 1080p monitor with only a ~250GB SSD required storage wise.

Games could be anything, mainly FPS though with older (CS:Source, CS:GO) stuff and will try some newer stuff (BF4 maybe, Evolve, Far Cry 4 etc).
Basically what do I need to push 1080p at high/ultra settings on the latest games and can it be done on my budget?

Budget is £550-£600 (not including OS)?
If I need to go extra to say £650-700 then I guess it might be do-able but it isn’t my default option especially if I can get the 1080p performance I require.
 
Cheers for that although looking at it i need a smaller case, like the look of the Silverstone SST-SG08B-Lite mini-ITX.
Picked the PSU as i know from some brief research it fits the case with a long GPU (has to be 140mm deep and not modular) plus added a 180mm case fan. Also added a right angle SSD cable as that seems to be recommended.
Otherwise generally fairly similar....do i need the Zalman multi connector you quoted, not sure what that's for?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £157.99
1 x Corsair Force LS Series 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F240GBLS) £99.98
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK) £55.99
1 x Silverstone SST-SG08B-Lite USB 3.0 Sugo Mini-ITX - Black £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAED38G1600HC9DC01) £49.99
1 x Silverstone SST-AP181 Air Penetrator 180mm FAN 700/1200rpm £14.99
1 x Silverstone SATA III Cable 50cm Angled / Straight - Black £4.99
Total : £692.92 (includes shipping : ).

 
OK well after all that i decided to have another look where i was putting the case and i've managed to relocate the Sky box to under the frame of the TV (its an LG with a kind of U shape stand) so that has freed up the entire level below in the TV stand (about 172mm tall).
So i'm now looking at a Silverstone GD10 and using an ATX....guess its gone off topic now so i'll post another similar spec in the Gen Hardware forum.
 
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