Mini ITX build help

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Hi guys,
I recently dusted off my old gaming rig after retiring it for a few years whilst I was busy with other things and after picking up a Silverstone RVZ01 for a paltry £30 the other day I'm looking at building a basic mini rig.

I previously had an old Q6600 rig with a HD6870 as I pretty much only ever played CS:GO. After installing Fallout 4 and realising my old Win7 was only 32bit for some reason I thought I might as well try and build a cheap mini rig able to run F4 and CSGO as well or better than my current clunky one (its housed in a Coolermaster ATCS-201!).

Had a quick browse and this was the spec I came up with but I'm pretty behind on the latest tech or even if an AMD or older build would still be more than up to what I need?

Intel Core i3 4130, LGA 1150, Haswell
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Pro Series Red, PC3-19200 (low profile)
MSI Z97I AC, Intel Z97, S 1150
250GB Samsung 850 EVO

I'll re-use an older sata drive for a while for main storage, my HD6870 and my PSU which was upgraded a few years ago seems to keep up with what I'd need.

What do you think?

Edit: just realised my PSU probably won't fit into the case as its an older standard size, any mini atx psu's you'd recommend? Silverstone sx-500 lg?
 
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Have you thought about going Skylake? Better upgradability for the future going with the 1151 socket in my opinion and there are some pretty decent entry level dual cores around. I've been looking at the i3 6320 for my next mini ITX build. 3.9GHz with 2 cores and 4 threads. They are also more efficient (slightly). You could get comparable DDR4 clock speeds at the same price as that DDR3 Venegence too.

That's what I'd do.
 
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