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It's pretty good, though it's obviously $150+ over budget. Are you trying to cut the price down to something more manageable?

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The Corsair H60 is a fairly slim radiator/fan design. In a tight space it probably makes a lot of sense, but in the Prodigy case you have a load of room and choice of coolers. I think there are going to be better options.
The GTX760 isn't really comparable to the R9 290, it's kinda two levels below it in performance so it's an odd comparison to make. The R9 290 and GTX780 are much more closely linked in price and performance, so that would be a more sensible comparison. If you are looking to get the price down, then an R9 280X or GTX770 are a good middle ground.
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If you're encoding videos and rendering, go with an i7.

You've got two GPUs in there.

Vengeance Pro is overpriced. Get a cheap set of 2x DIMMs, DDR3-1600, CL9, 1.5V. I'd look at 16GB.

You don't want to be running Windows from a 5400RPM drive. Either get a 7200RPM one, or get an SSD.

That's mobo's overpriced. Get this instead: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1491&products_id=23791&zenid=bf0b3817262d6b875868f5454e0ab19e
If you're going to push the OC, get this: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1491&products_id=24388&zenid=361b57561caa02c3c1d225b96a9f4628
 
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It's pretty good, though it's obviously $150+ over budget. Are you trying to cut the price down to something more manageable?

Other thoughts-
The Corsair H60 is a fairly slim radiator/fan design. In a tight space it probably makes a lot of sense, but in the Prodigy case you have a load of room and choice of coolers. I think there are going to be better options.
The GTX760 isn't really comparable to the R9 290, it's kinda two levels below it in performance so it's an odd comparison to make. The R9 290 and GTX780 are much more closely linked in price and performance, so that would be a more sensible comparison. If you are looking to get the price down, then an R9 280X or GTX770 are a good middle ground.
Memory prices in Australia are awful, but you can cut down that price if you need to. There are similar kits for $100.
Don't use a WD Green drive as a primary storage device. It's a low power/efficiency drive. Get a Caviar Blue/Black or Seagate Barracuda if you actually want to install and run things from it.
Cooling - I'm not sure where you intend to put the 120mm fan, but (ignoring CPU cooler for a second) the best you can add is a 140mm fan at the rear exhaust, and a 140/200/230mm fan at the front. Fans in the roof won't do an awful lot.
 
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Shop around a bit:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($396.00 @ CPL Online)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($59.00 @ CPL Online)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($158.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: A-Data XPG V2 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($199.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($419.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case ($99.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($115.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Total: $1544.00
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-04 20:20 EST+1100)
 
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When you choose all in one liquid cooling you take away the motherboards VRM cooling. The VRMs are cooled by an air cooler usually, in custom water loops there are motherboard cooling blocks, just like their are for CPUs and GPUs. If you intend to OC the VRMs will just get hotter.
As for air coolers the 2 cheapest most popular are the Coolermaster hyper 212 EVO and Xigmatek Gaia as for high end air take a look at the Noctua NH-U14S.
For RAM, they make 16GB 1600Mhz CAS7 sticks, don't settle for CAS9, Crucial has good selection of fast memory, so does g.skill.
For motherboard get an ASUS Z87 board.
PSU, Seasonic USA makes the best.
 
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CAS 7 is pricey in anything faster than about DDR3-1066. Especially if you want 16GB/stick.

Asus tends to be pricey, though they do make the only mITX board with a decent VRM. Depends how much you want to OC.

Remember that this is a SFF build; you might not be able to fit a tower cooler in.
 
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This build is pretty much bang on. If it were me I'd go for a motherboard with a better CPU socket location (ASrock Z87E-ITX/Asus Z87I), and a tower air cooler, but there is nothing wrong with those.
16Gb of memory is debatable based on which software you use, but it's not a bad idea. If the budget was an issue, you could always go for a single 8Gb stick and upgrade as/when needed.


Don't disagree with this as such, but you need to be really careful when picking coolers for ITX. The Bitfenix Prodigy has massive clearance for very tall CPU coolers, but a lot of motherboards (the MSI or Gigabyte ones are a good example) will not be compatible with a lot of coolers due to the CPU socket location.


There's only a few (two-three, depending on imports) Asus options, and not of them are cheap. They are good, but there is usually a better value for money option, especially if the budget is too high.


That's nonsense.
Seasonic "USA" don't make anything. They are Taiwanese.
The PSU used by both SomeoneSomewhere and the OP is a Seasonic unit, so nobody has suggested using anything but Seasonic.
 
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