Under 500 € budget gaming i5 4440 and 750 Ti

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Hello guys. I am building a budget oriented pc for my friend. He is developer of videogames and will run Unity 5 (http://unity3d.com/unity) and actual games. He is not interested in highest quality settings. The pc should last at 5-8 years at 1080p. And he will not overclock. He said, his budget is max. of 500 €, but it should be cheap as posssible. I will sell him some parts and some parts are from his older pc, some parts are new. He said, he wants an Intel cpu and Nvidia gpu (which I recommend too, so please don't discuss about this).

Did I overlook something? I would be very thankful, if you spend two minutes and have a look.

PCPartPicker part list: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/h2YxvK
Price breakdown by merchant: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/h2YxvK/by_merchant/

This will be new:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor (€189.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€68.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Antec GX500 ATX Mid Tower Case (€42.90 @ Caseking)

This is from my last years build, which are replaced by new parts this year. I can sell him these cards for very low money:
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€35.00)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card (€80.00)
Power Supply: be quiet! 400W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (€35.00)

Total: €451.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-02 00:16 CEST+0200

Additionally, he will use his old hard drives, Windows 7 license, dvd drive, monitor, keyboard and mouse.
 

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Can you tell me why the suggested case "Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case" is better than "Antec GX500 ATX Mid Tower Case"? And what about the chosen board? It is MicroATX and have less connections. He also wants USB-3 port on front side of case and that MSI H81 board does not support it. Is that board better in other ways?

My friend want order it today. It is basically an order of 3 units: Case, Motherboard and CPU. The other parts are fixed. I would appreciate any help.
 

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The n200 has superior airflow, build quality and cable management compared to the Antec case.

The MSI H81M-E34 is a MicroATX motherboard as the N200 is also mATX. It does have USB 3.0 Headers for the front of the case.

Choice of processor is good. Maybe go the i5-4590 if you can afford it.