comments/critiques on my steam/kodi box

jonass21

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Building a smallish, quiet media/gaming box for the living room
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bvCrnQ

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.69 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS9500 AT Ball Bearing CPU Cooler ($35.98 @ Directron)
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($67.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($68.97 @ OutletPC)
Storage: PNY Optima 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($79.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($91.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card ($319.99 @ B&H)
Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Tower Case ($34.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($75.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($88.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1039.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-07 19:52 EST-0500

Here are the parts, I have already purchased the case, power supply, mobo, memory, and ssd (Good deals came around so I just snagged them). Was going to get windows 7 due to cheapness and do the free upgrade to windows 10 when available. I am not totally sold on the zotac 970 in particular so much as just the 970 in general. Plan is to have it boot straight into kodi and navigate using the Xbox 360 controller and use Steam big picture launcher to launch games straight from kodi, let me know what you guys think
 

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