And, to give my 2c on some of the topics brought up in this thread...
I jumped on the order for my CPU because those high bins sell out fast. I'm going to go complete max power for this build. However, I'm not necessarily in a rush, so I'm going to wait until the newer Z270 motherboards are in stock. Will probably grab a new ASUS. If you're getting a 7700k, you might want to grab a Z270. While the Z170's will support it with a bios update, the 270's are built for it, and I've actually been reading about some issues with incorrect voltages being sent to the CPU as well as problems with locked multipliers on the older 170's with Kaby Lake.
And regarding which actual CPU to get.. if you're gaming, stick with the 7700k. It's the highest stock IPC of any i7 released, and so far the overclocking looks promising. IPC is king for gaming. No game can even utilize more than 4 cores right now anyways.
Video cards are another thing to maybe wait for. Many were expecting 1080 Ti and/or Vega to be announced at CES.. but neither were, which is quite surprising. However, both of these should come out within a month or two. Regarding SLI, I did it with my current build (two 680's), and I'll never do it again. It's not worth it.
Hard Drive.. Get an M.2 NVME. I'm eyeing the Samsung 960 Pro.
The motherboard I pick out will be one of the DDR4-4133's, and I'll be getting G.Skill RAM to match that.
Anyways, biggest point I guess I'm making is, there's a ton of new stuff coming out with CES and to support Kaby Lake. Give it a chance to settle (a week or two, or longer if you want to wait for new video cards), and keep an eye on the benchmarking.
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