Ok .. first, hiya Centurion. Second, these fine folks helped me build Bessie back in 2011 and she`s gone through many upgrades since. I`m sticking with win 7 O.S. for many reasond. I`m also an ASUS fanboy ... also for many many reasons. Don`t cheap out on things such as mobo and power supply. A power supply failure could cause a fire. I`ll always stick with Corsair. My intel i7 2600K CPU is kinda outdated but still performs well within the specs I`m seeing from new gen. processors. This is an unlocked processor that defaults around 3.4GHz .. but I`ve clocked to 4.5GHz using the auto tune feature. I`ve had my fun with that and decided that I`m in no hurry to burn it out. Corsair also makes a spiffy CPU juice cooling system that comes completely sealed and is just a simple (?) installation, I have the H100i , which is a double fan radiator. The H50 is a single. I did this because it gets hot here and ambient in my apt. can reach 90+F. I prefer to blow the heat out of the case rather than blow it around inside and hope the outflow is enough. HeyYou has been a great help and a friend to me and many others over the years.
Edit: Here`s a link to my continues "Build or Buy" thread from back then.