Does This Look Like A Good Gaming System?

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Grab the 4670K from Micro Center as well (in-store only, if you're near one). It's $200 there.

Unless you plan on moving out of the Phenom later on, a 700W power supply is going to be overkill, since you can't add in a second graphics card. It's not modular either, and isn't worth the $80 in your situation.

16GB of RAM is overkill for gaming and casual use - what're you going to be using it for?

I'll add more if I see anything.
 
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if it were me, for gaming, i would not put that liquid cooling kit on it, it performs as well as a reasonable air cooler, probably ditch the K edition cpu as you wont be able to OC much in a mini itx enclosure.
i would ditch the SSD in favor of putting more power toward the graphics card and get at least a gtx770 in there. and stick with 8gb ram unless you need more for some reason.
Does it have to be mini itx?
 
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Yes it does. Why no H60? It performs better then air coolers.
 
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Haswell CPUs get quite hot, and it might not be worth the time, money, and effort in overclocking in an ITX case. Taking some money away from the CPU overclocking side and putting it towards a better GPU will net better gains in gaming.

And yes, 8GB is perfectly fine for gaming.
 
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The 4570 is very nearly identical to the 4670K apart from clock speeds.

Also, the reason why I said 700W will be overkill was that even if you toss a 290X or 690 in there, a 550-600W PSU will still be enough. Only a 7990 (which isn't great) would push close to 700W. CPU/Mobo upgrades are negligible power increases (a dozen watts or so).

It's not a bad card, it's just that your money would be better spent on a GPU. Overclocking CPUs is generally just for fun and benching. Unless you're doing heavily CPU-bound tasks, a couple hundred MHz won't make much of a difference.

Maths:
4670K ($200) + H60 ($60) = $260
4570 ($160) + 212+ ($30) = $190
Savings: $70
760 ($250) + $70 = 770 ($320)

PS: Try not to double post.
 
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