PC Upgrading (Help wanted/needed)

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Hi there :)

Norwegian PC noob looking for some help please.
I've been searching far and wide for someone with experience within the group of people that I usually play games and such with, asking if they could give me any guidance towards what would be a good/really good desktop pc.
They've not been all that good at giving guidance, being most of them aren't really computer experts I figure..

I just recently purchased a 1080ti aorus extreme and an Asus 27" ROG PG278QR (2560x1440@165Hz) but the rest of my rig is about 7 years old (minimum).

Here's the rest of the stuff I've got at the moment;

OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU - Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
RAM - 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard - MSI P67A-GD80 (MS-7672) (SOCKET 0)

Graphics;
Asus 27" ROG PG278QR (2560x1440@165Hz)
BenQ FP222WH (1768x992@30Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Gigabyte)

Storage;
111GB Corsair Force LS SSD SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
1863GB Seagate ST320006 ST32000641AS SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
931GB Seagate ST310005 ST31000524AS SCSI Disk Device (SATA)

I'm not really sure about what fans I got but I know they're there. Theres also at the moment watercooling for my current cpu (Antec Kühler h₂o 920).

Power supply is Corsair TX850.
http://imgur.com/BOtRqC5

I've been looking around on websites, like for example UserBenchmark.com to get a somewhat "result" of what it could become with upgrades. From there on out I've picked out some things that I for some reason or another found interesting and looked good stat-wise but not sure if it would be a good match and whatnot as I don't really know much about this stuff at all..

Dunno if it's of any importance but I'll just for fun list the items that I have in the "shopping cart" as of now, would like to see some recommendations, suggestions, changes, all there is if anyone got time and/or interest to help me out. :)

OS - Windows 10 (Only because I've heard I'll get more bang for the buck GPU-wise)
SSD - Samsung 960 PRO 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD
Motherboard - Gigabyte X299 AORUS GAMING 9, S-2066
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB
Intel Core i7-7820X
Extra cooling?

My budget would be around roughly 3000€/3500$ at max I'd say.
PC would be used for heavy gaming, some movie rendering, multi-tasking.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated :>

Also, is this the right place to post this?
 
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Hellfire13

Hellfire13

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - R1 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler (€76.24 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (€167.84 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (€167.84 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€227.54 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 2.0TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€510.76 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AORUS Xtreme Edition 11G Video Card
Case: Thermaltake - Chaser MK-I ATX Full Tower Case (€149.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: Corsair - 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€129.60 @ Mindfactory)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (€92.85 @ Mindfactory)
Other: Asus Maximus X Code (€275.00)
Other: i7-8700k (€400.00)
Total: €2197.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-09-28 00:19 CEST+0200

The 8700k will be the new gaming champ when it launches in 10 days time. You dont need 64gb RAM even in the forseeable future. Prior Windows has limited support for current gen. hardware. It is recommended that you build a new rig with that kind of budget.
Prices are in PCPP Dutch version as they dont have a Norwegian listing, but they wont be too different from the above.
 
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sirpannekake

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@Hellfire13
Thanks for the quick reply, I'm glad you were able to take a look and help me figure out some of this.

I can obviously tell that you very much know what you're talking about by looking at your profile, that's awesome.
If you really think this is the way to go, then I'm pretty sure I'll just go ahead and do this.

I'm kinda curious about a couple things tho, the difference between the 7-8700k and i7-7820X is part of it. From what I understand the i7-7820X would in general do better when it comes to most (all?) parts and the price difference isn't all that "wow get outta here" difference, so why not might aswell go for this? Is it not compatible with the Asus Maximus X Code?
The 2nd thing would be the motherboard, Asus Maximus X Code. When I google it, all that pops up is about Asus Maximus IX Code, so is the X Code something that has yet to be released or is it simply a typo? Not much I can find out about it by just quickly looking through top google results.
3rd and final thing is about the current case that I have, which I believe is Corsair Graphite 600TM Midi Tower. Do you think it would all fit in there or should I most definitely get a new one? It's a pretty big cabinet, I do at the moment have lots of space (atleast by the looks of it in there).

I'm just curious about the reasoning for these things in particular, the rest I'm sure is top notch and with good reason, atleast as far as my limited knowledge can tell.

Thanks for your time, hopefully it's not too much of a hassle :)

Edit;
Here's an edited list of the one that you provided me, it's doesn't contain many changes. Just the CPU, bigger 960 SSD and big HDD for space as it's heavily needed at this point and will only be more needed as time goes by.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7820X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor (€542.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - R1 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler (€76.62 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (€167.84 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (€167.84 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Samsung - 960 Pro 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€528.07 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 2.0TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€510.76 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda Pro 8TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€298.67 @ Mindfactory)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AORUS Xtreme Edition 11G Video Card
Case: Thermaltake - Chaser MK-I ATX Full Tower Case (€149.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: Corsair - 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€129.60 @ Mindfactory)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (€92.85 @ Mindfactory)
Other: Asus Maximus X Code (€275.00)
Total: €2940.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-09-28 03:09 CEST+0200
 
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7820X is 8 core. Most games dont even use 4 cores properly yet. 8 cores is first of all waste of resource. Secondly, the more cores you add, the more games struggle to scale across cores. You need to remember that games scale better to faster cores than slower multiple cores. Third, Skylake X(7820X) is not a gaming centric processor, hence its architecture is different from KabyLake or upcoming CoffeeLake(8700k listed above). The IPC module optimization works a bit differently among them. Also Skylake-X has changed the topology and cache layout which is incurring a performance penalty in gaming. The current gaming king is 7700k hands down across all benchmarks over the internet. It performs even better than 7820x on current titles. And hence 8700k will be beter in gaming as it will be more powerful gaming centric chip than 7700k.
And most importantly, the motherboard chipset is different, hence it is not compatible with that Asus board.

Your call mate.
 
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