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My point is Alex, never buy the top tier of anything until it either drops in price significantly or a later model is released and thus reduces the price.
This is from over 30 years experience of buying PC kit and a personal ethic of not being ripped off.
This is essentially the same as buying lower end hardware, though. They're not particularly comparable components and it will impact the experience significantly. The biggest difference between a mid range card of tomorrow and a high end card of today is time, the demands for games move along with modern hardware. It is simply more expensive to buy higher end equipment, to buy it once outdated is effectively to buy lower end hardware in the first place. At least right now, the price benefit is minimal.
As I said, don't buy it if you only want 1080p60Hz high or something (a new GPU and a good CPU overclock would probably get an acceptable experience with BF5 there), it would be a waste of money but on that budget I'd expect high refresh rates, settings and resolution. The graphics card is already likely to be the bottleneck on the 1080Ti. There's nothing wrong with building a more standard system but it is a difference in experience.
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Yes the 1080ti outperforms the 1070ti but its ALOT more expensive and to be fair with 1100 series coming 'soonish' i would personally grab a 980ti for around 200 quid, and wait for the 1100 series '1180ti' or buy a much cheaper 1080ti then, and also sell on what is a legendary card in the 980ti.
Unless he's buying used the 980Ti is selling for £600 new, not £200 and is about 20% slower than the 1070Ti which is cheaper at about £440. As I mentioned above, the 980Ti is only equivalent to the mid range of modern gaming hardware (1060/1070 non-Ti). You would be better off buying the current mid range of gaming hardware than the last generation's high end, including for resale value.
I would have gone for the better performance than more storage, particularly as you can easily add more drives in future while a whole new GPU is needed if it doesn't meet expectations. The described storage setup is already pretty decent.
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3200 ram is a waste of money, unless you are video editing....2666 is the sweet spot... there is a cost difference if you are buying a bigger stick.
Not necessarily, the cost difference is often negligible between different sticks. For example, the difference is £8 between the 2666MHz and 3000MHz sticks of Corsair Vengeance (it was significantly less even when I bought mine, though both were more expensive during the RAM shortage). For his chosen sticks on Amazon downgrading to the 2933MHz will save all of £2, but the 2666MHz is ~£50 cheaper so I'd say save the money. If the difference is negligible don't get the downgrade. It doesn't have much effect for his chosen CPU, Ryzen systems tend to see a much greater benefit from faster RAM.
