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An alternative for exactly the same price (after 12% off with a code)
http://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desktops-and-all-in-ones/new-alienware-aurora/spd/alienware-aurora-r7-desktop/d00awr707Has a 8700 rather than an 8700k, but has a 1080 rather than a 1060.
Anyway, the Dell's seem to be fairly reasonably priced - not really much of a premium over buying the parts yourself.
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I had a go at a similar build on Novatech, main differences are a much beefier GPU, faster RAM, although less of it, bigger SSD, slightly more powerful PSU:
Corsair Carbide Series 200R Mid Tower Case
Unit price £60.47 incCrucial MX300 1TB 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm Adapter) SATA 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive - Retail
Unit price £263.27 incCorsair RMi Series RM850i ATX Power Supply
Unit price £147.49 incIntel 8th Generation Intel® Core? i7 8700K 3.7GHz Socket LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) Processor - OEM
Unit price £345.98 incMSI B250M PRO-VDH Intel B250 (Socket 1151) Motherboard
Unit price £70.03 incCorsair Vengeance LED White 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit
Unit price £209.02 incTotal £1099.25
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Dunno where you are shopping but you could get a bitfenix case from amazon for £35 with all the same features as that corsair one, good quality slightly lesser known brand, decent amount of space behind the mobo tray for cables to hide and cut outs around the tray to route around.
PSU you shouldn't need modular just tuck the cables away when you build it. Been using a corsair tx650 in my machine for years now i5 2500k, 16gb ram, radeon 7950, ssd, 4x HDDs, 5 fans. You really only need to go bigger if you have chucked in 2x GPUs or gone with a really poor quality PSU. Make sure it's single rail too, lots make the mistake of getting multiple 12v rails and then they don't balance them properly and it all goes bad(common cause of noobs needing 1500w PSUs).
Out of the loop a bit on stuff since I quit the pc forums.
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Everyone is going to have their own opinion on builds but mine is wayyyy too much money on cpu vs gpu. Get a 1060 at least. With the right bits you could have a dual boot hack for sketch and games. I’ve just bought a new case so may have some spare parts if ya fancy second hand?
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An 850 W, £150 power supply is overkill.
GTX 1060 official spec says it needs 400 W and an i7-8700K less than 100 W. The other components use barely any power.Use one of the online calculators but will be surprised if you need over 450 W.
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Cool, ok. This comes in at £1407.
RAM should be fine at 16GB. I've never had page-outs with that much and probably won't any time soon.
Still need to get a keyboard and mouse. And windows... Ugh.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper and faster than an iMac, even without that gorgeous screen.
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