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^ Can you get the Seasonic S12II 520W in the UK? Although you are running a R9 390 I see. That would ideally require something in excess of ~550W.

^ I would suggest the following, upgrade RAM to 2 x8GB Kingston HyperX Fury / Savage 1866MHz kit(s) custom GTX1060 / 1070 card You should be gaming at 1080p-60fps easy and this would be the most logical way to move forward. If you want to get an SSD, instead of focusing on a small m.2 based SSD unit, I would suggest getting a 500GB SAMSUNG 850 EVO / PRO. Alternately if you have the money to spare, you can go for a 512GB SAMSUNG 950 PRO. Hope this helps. Cheers!

And individually are slower plus have a higher coefficient of failure than that single drive.

I would suggest you step down to a 240mm AiO radiator for cooling, e.g., Corsair H100i series Cooler Master NEPTON 240M For chassis, I am not sure why you took the Cooler Master STORM Stryker but there should be plenty other competitive offerings like the, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Fractal Design XL R2 Corsair 750D For the PSU, I would suggest, Cooler Master V650 eVGA SuperNOVA G2 650 I see no reason for going over 650W since your parts are so much more efficient and should be effectively serviced by even a 500W unit but keeping future upgrades in mind, a 650W is a safe bet. Are you planning to run games over 60fps? If yes, you might have to consider getting a Core i7 instead of the i5. Hope this helps, Cheers!

That is a three year old video, current SSD's like the 850 EVO on their own are capable of peaking at over ~500 MB/s of throughput. RAID 0 is not going to be like that video where the majority of SSD's were based on the SandForce controller and had margin for improvement in performance made pairing them up a viable option. All this before mentioning that these are theoretical benchmarks, yes, they exist but grading them on a user-to-user basis is not going to be a linear exercise nor will the scaling work that way something that Linus mentions before the number slides go up. Also, just to put the performance aspect in perspective, here is the SAMSUNG 850 EVO (drive being suggested) squaring off against the ADATA SX900 (drive used in benchmark video).

I do not think that the Gemini and the H100i are in the same league of performance.

^ Maybe because I use amazon.com as my reference.

Yes, that is the one.

Depends on the game for the most part. Newer ones obviously scale well with SSD's for shorter load times but older titles from even five years ago manage on a spinner. But you are absolutely correct about RAID being wasted on SATA III SSD's. The interface simply does not have the bandwidth to push performance further.

^ Looks all good to me.

^ Hey man, any chance you can get something other than the Founder's Edition of the GTX1070, say something like this one. Cheers!

Putting them in RAID is not doing any good since even a decent SSD like the SAMSUNG 850 EVO series is pretty much at the limits of what a SATA III connector based interface can get you in terms of performance. Just get one larger SSD for now. For the GTX1080, I was under the assumption that you folks finally had a steady supply of the GTX1080 / 1070 cards. For custom editions I would suggest the following (no particular order), GIGABYTE G1 Gaming Edition eVGA SuperClocked (SC) / FTW Gaming MSi Twin Frozr GAMING Hope this comes handy. Cheerio~

Thank you. I think you can take other members opinions in the performance ▲ between a Core i5 6600k or Core i7 6700k and if there is not sufficient difference to justify the latter, you can go for the relatively cheaper Core i5 and stuff in your second monitor. Hope this helps, Cheerio! Here is the base benches from Anandtech.

That's a B150 chipset based board. I think more on the lines of this. Apologies in advance for not using Partpicker links.

Considering OP is sticking to 1080p-60fps gaming for now, would it be better to scale back on the processor to a Core i5 6600k and keep the rest of the build same. Or is the quad-core non-hyperthreaded Core i5 simply too anemic for the task at hand? The only issue would be your budget.