lol, zero buyer's remorse here bro, I did my research before taking the plunge.
here's the thing, im finally upgrading from a Sandy Bridge build (2500k) and the multiple steps up are deffo worth it. SB had begun to show it's age in some titles and was bottlenecking the 1070 even at a reasonably fast 4.6 clock, no upgrade path to 1440 or 4k there either.
it'll be years before games benefit from more cores and hyperthreading etc anyway.
this pc is for gaming and cpu intensive flight sims etc only, and sometimes as a DAW to fiddle around with some music stuff.. no streaming, content creation/rendering etc.. more than good enough for all of that and should last me a good many years.
the 7700k still beats ryzen/threadripper and even some intel enthusiast grade chips in gaming owing to it's higher clockability.
covfefe lake is also going to be expensive and marked up as hell on launch here in India.
Looks great
BTW GPU name?
zotac 1070, but not the factory oc'd amp extreme one.
no backplate either, it's the one ugly component in there with it's exposed ugly pcb spoiling muh l33t look.