Thanks, that's not a bad idea on the CPU. I may do some reseach on the Z270 features My understanding is Kaby got pushed out until next year now. For Mobo, I have the perception ASRock is a bit of a lower quality brand (I used to think it was an ASUS knock off or cheaper company). That was moons ago though, is that no longer the case?

Thanks for the tip on the SSD. I've actually had an 850W powersupply for like 7 years, so was just going like for like. (If you thought it was overkill now, wooh doggy.)

Thanks again!

If you're basing that of the wccftech article -

Update [10/4/2016]: Some readers have pointed out something concerning about the benchmark in question. We were using this verified result of the Core i7 6700k as a baseline to compare the new results against. As you can see, it shows a single core score of 4300 and a multi core score of 16756, which gave the percentage figures of 40% and 20% respectively. Unfortunately, however, there is a lot of inconsistency in the scores reported by this benchmark and not all results are alike. The biggest issue is that the clock speed readings appear to be read completely wrong. I was able to find Core i7 6700k multi core scores as low as 11000 and as high as 22000 at seemingly the same clocks. This means that analysing the performance gains depicted in this particular leak gets very difficult without injecting significant subjective opinion, which is why I have decided to edit out the percentage gains from the headline. I apologise for the err on my part in not conducting the necessary due diligence.

• http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-7700k-benchmarks/

As I understand it they're a rumour mill anyway so pinch of salt and all that.

Previous gens performance gains have been around 10% iirc.

Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking people don't notice my post is in $CAD.