New PC Mini-ITX Build - Compatibility Help ?

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Hi, looking to setup small form factor budget gaming build, wondering if all this would be suitable and if anyone had any better suggestions for around the same cost ?

AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz
Silverstone AR05 40.2 CFM CPU Cooler
ASRock A68M-ITX Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard
MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card
Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case w/450W Power Supply

All help appreciated, Thanks...
 
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Here's what i've put together.
[strike]Its a little over budget at $568, but gives much more performance given that it now has 16GB of RAM as a pose to 8, where many games are now recommending 16GB of RAM over 8GB with that level of graphics card. Let me know if that's too much of compromise and I can respec it for you.[/strike]
Edit: Nevermind I misread the budget as 500! :) I've added a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD for Windows, so the boot up will be MUCH faster than with a WD Blue. This puts the total cost at 633.
Again, as previously mentioned if 600 is the absolute max feel free to just remove the SSD from the listing and rock a HDD only, bringing it back into budget range.

Although in my opinion an SSD is well worth it, as it makes your...
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Sounds like it MAY be a bit over budget considering OP is using the FM2+ socket, maybe in this case saving up a bit more for an i3 skylake build with a H110 board and an RX480 would be a good idea, much better CPU performance per core and GPU power.
 
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Here's what i've put together.
[strike]Its a little over budget at $568, but gives much more performance given that it now has 16GB of RAM as a pose to 8, where many games are now recommending 16GB of RAM over 8GB with that level of graphics card. Let me know if that's too much of compromise and I can respec it for you.[/strike]
Edit: Nevermind I misread the budget as 500! :) I've added a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD for Windows, so the boot up will be MUCH faster than with a WD Blue. This puts the total cost at 633.
Again, as previously mentioned if 600 is the absolute max feel free to just remove the SSD from the listing and rock a HDD only, bringing it back into budget range.

Although in my opinion an SSD is well worth it, as it makes your experience much smoother and saves me a lot of time considering how often I boot up my PC.
Lowers the bootup time from something like 1:00 on a HDD to 0:20 on an SSD.
Also provides some additional storage! :)
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/DhD99W
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/DhD99W/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($67.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case ($40.00 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Other: RX480 ($200.00)
Total: $633.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-19 20:51 EDT-0400
 
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Thank you , this has helped very much, I have decided to go with this , your feedback is much appreciated.
 
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No problem! Don't hesitate to ask if you need anything else.
 
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Don't forget the cost of Windows 10 64-bit, and also the RX-480 will not be $200 at launch (that's only MSRP).

Personally, I'd drop the SSD for now and get an i5-6400/6500 CPU instead.

An SSD only helps with boot times, makes Windows slightly but an i3 CPU is going to limit your options for gaming. It's a great CPU for most games but won't handle everything, nor is it future proof.

You can easily PARTITION a 1TB HDD so that Windows is on the 200GB partition (approx 730GB is secondary partition). That makes it easy to CLONE to a 250GB SSD later. Just clone the first partition over or backup/restore image to the SSD.

So here's a summary of my main points:

1) CPU cooler - may want slightly better to reduce noise (can do later though). Such as Cryorig H7 for $35USD.

2) RX-480: will not be $200 on launch, and I also recommend the 8GB model

3) i5-6500 recommended instead of the SSD (but partition HDD to 200GB + 730GB to aid later clone to SSD)

4) Windows 10 64-bit
 
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Well I was thinking of using the Silverstone AR05 40.2 CFM CPU Cooler , and I already have a spare 250gb SSD (Hyper X Fury). Also I can get windows 10 for free so that is not an issue.
 
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