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Suggestions/comments on $600 gaming build

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foebvic

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Hey, I have a build planned and ready to order/assemble in the next two weeks. My budget is strictly 600 USD (including shipping and tax) and I'm reusing some parts (Antec p280, Corsair HX650 gold (still under the 7 year warranty), 500GB HDD). I've used the PSU for about two years with no signs of trouble other than the intermittent coil whine. I'm not overclocking or plan on overclocking, but I would like to have this build last at least 3-4 years if possible.

Here are the parts I'm getting:

I’m getting a 4590 (160+14tax) from my local NYC Microcenter.
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($42.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Team Elite 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($33.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card ($309.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $560.87

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-10 16:06 EDT-0400

Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Go with this 16GB kit instead of that single 8GB stick of RAM.

$70 - G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

8GB is enough for now, but it's the bare minimum I would recommend at this point in time. 2 years from now might be a different story and with DDR4 becoming main stream DDR3 will slowly start to become unavailable.
 
Go with this 16GB kit instead of that single 8GB stick of RAM.

$70 - G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

8GB is enough for now, but it's the bare minimum I would recommend at this point in time. 2 years from now might be a different story and with DDR4 becoming main stream DDR3 will slowly start to become unavailable.
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Thanks, I'll go with 16gb of ram.
 
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