Help on a Gaming System Build to last at least 4-5 years

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catsdawn

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I'm trying to build a gaming system that I would be able to use for the next 4-5 years. I'm from Turkey so some of the parts are chosen out of necessity due to lack of options. I'm an amateur photographer, so I need a lot of disk space. I'll be using the computer to play games mostly strategy and rpg (Current favorites x-com 2, Skyrim, Civilization V ) , no first person shooters

Case:COOLER MASTER Cosmos SE
PSU: Corsair HX 850i
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K Soket 1151 3.5GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB(2x8GB) 2666MHz DDR4
Graphics Card: ASUS STRIX GTX 980 Ti
SSD: Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB (OS & programs)
SSD: Samsung 256GB 950 PRO M.2 (Games)
HD: WD 3.5" 6TB Caviar Black x2 (At this rate I'll be adding a new one in a year or 2)

For now I'll be using my current monitor ASUS PB278Q. I would appriciate any suggestions or comments.
 
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There aren't many quality psu's available. My choices are 500W in the gold, 600s 700s bronzes and 850 in gold or platinum. Since the diff between gold and platinum was about 20 dollars, I chose the platinum.
 
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No PC is guarenteed to last 4-5 years. By that time anything you buy today will be very old and seen as very slow.

HD capacity is easy to add at any time. Having 1 data disk and 1 backup disk is smart. But your backup disk doesn't need to be a BLACK a lower cost and cooler running green would do for backups. So replace 1 of the blacks with a green (save money).
I own a Sandisk SSD, it's nice, but the Samsung 850 EVO is faster and cheaper.
I prefer ZOTAC Amp! to the Asus graphics card since I have recently come to distrust ASUS reliability. For the same reason I would get pretty much any other brand motherboard. Consider Asrock, Gigabyte or MSI.
I considered the water cooler you got but after read a bunch of reviews, I think you can get the same results from a top of the line air cooler like the Noctua NH-U14S. The air cooler is less likely to fail (nothing will grow in it, water sometimes gets growth). I've used water cooling extensively in the past. It does a good job of moving the heat out of the case but good air flow is almost as nice and easier to care for (and almost always cheaper)
 
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catsdawn

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For the cooler, there aren't any Noctua, NZXT or be quite! coolers available. I can choose from Corsair, Thermaltake, Cooler Master, Zalman or very few SilverStone.
 
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I agree that within 4-5 years your PC will probably be outdated, I mean with the upcoming Pascal GPUs alone would mean that your build will quickly become outdated. So, what I would suggest, get your build now, wait until it starts struggling, then upgrade whatever needs to be upgraded and not buy a completely new system.

A few notes though:
1. I would really change the motherboard.
2. I would replace the SanDisk SSD with a Samsung SSD.
3. I would change the graphics card to another, like the MSI or Gigabyte version. Or you could get the amazing EVGA Hybrid 980 ti GPUs. I have 2 of them in SLI and I can say, wow, they are beasts.
 
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