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The PSU is good, on Amazon it's rated 4.4/5 with over 3800 reviews. It's 80+ Bronze, Corsair build quality and reliabilty is pretty good, and it's semimodular.

The NZXT H440 is a great case, you can fit radiators up to 360 mm with no worry. If you look carefully at the spec sheets of the two products, the size of the H440 is 220mm x 513mm x 480mm, while the SPEC-03 is 215mm x 493mm x 426mm, the extra space of the H440 is what allows the great watercooling possibilities. Personally I like the H440 way more, but you have to consider that the SPEC-03 costs around 60 bucks, whereas for the H440 you will spend no less than $120, depending on the version and obviously where you will buy it.

I added an image to my previous reply, just a few seconds after you answered. A slim fan is still 12/13 mm. It may eventually fit, but you have to take the risk to try.

Pay attention: there's a mount for 2x120 mm fans, not a radiator. If you see how the motherboard is located inside the case you would notice ther's not enough space for a radiator (plus its fans), and if you have a tall voltage regulator heatsink you wouldn't be able to mount it, like the Asus Z170A he wants to buy. Infact, if you check the product page on Asus website (http://www.corsair.com/en/carbide-series-spec-03-orange-led-mid-tower-gaming-case) there's particularly written "Radiator Mount Locations: Rear: 120mm" and "Compatible Corsair Liquid Coolers: H55, H60, H75, H80i", if it would be able to fit in they would have written it. Look at this image I found on Google, you can clearly see that a 27 mm radiator plus 25 mm of fans can't fit. I made the same mistake, I bought a Corsair 200R thinking that 240 mm radiator would be able to stay on the top fan mount location (2x120 mm), but the motherboard heatsink would interfere with it.

The motherboard fits perfectly, since it's an ATX and the case supports: Mini-ITX, MicroATX, ATX. However the Corsair Hydro 100 is not able to fit in, Corsair compatible liquid coolers are: H55, H60, H75, H80i, if you check the case spec sheet says the only radiator mount location is on the rear for a 120 mm one. I don't think the HDD/SSD bay is removable to put the radiator on the front, but you can always do some mods if you want

Sure it works, I have the same configuration as you (but a FX8350) and it works perfectly.

No, it doesn't. As SLAYR said you need a dedicated RGB header, but unfortunately this motherboard doesn't have it.

Nevermind Did it work at the end?

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Try, I'm not sure it would work either on Windows 8.1. At a first glance I thought it was Windows 10.

CS:GO and Rust should run well above 144 fps (going further is not useful or improve your experience since you have an 144Hz full Hd monitor), I don't think so for ARK at max settings, and as UnlimitedTMD said before, the GTX 1080 is way overpowered and expensive just for the games you intend to play.

There is a freeware that on Windows 7 allowed to do that, it was called Start Orb Mover! (http://www.thewindowsclub.com/orb-mover-move-start-button-menu-windows), I don't think it could work on Windows 10, nor there's any third party tool for Windows 10.

I read on some tech website that Kaby Lake is basically just an optimization of Skylake. The 14 nm+ process allows highier frequencies (about 12% compared to Skylake, 300-400 MHz to be clear), but the pipeline (so the IPC) is pratically the same. These frequencies improvements are important in single thread application (the main focus is on mobile devices), meaning quicker time to complete it before going back to idle, effectively saving power (so battery on mobile devices).

Sure, unfortunately, as Altecide before me mentioned, the free upgrade from an eligible device/version of Windows offer ended on July 29, 2016, however it is still possible to get the free upgrade if you use assistive technologies (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade). If you don't use assistive technologies and you really don't want to pay for it, you can always download the official Windows 10 ISO, install use that, but Windows results as not-activated. You can still find a way to activate it for free but I can't (nor I want) to explain you as it is not legal.