No it doesn't. You can get windows 7 licenses for like $20-30 and then upgrade to Windows 10 for free this summer. I already provided a build that will play games much better than the Xbone and marginally better than the PS4. Sure it isn't a future-proof build in all areas, but the biggest area it isn't as upgradeable in is the CPU, and that so happens to be the consoles' weakest area. 

When I asked for your setup, I wasn't really talking about that RAM set but the CPU/mobo because as of now, DDR4 only works Intel's top of the line range: the s2011v3 with its i7-5xx0 processors. And the cheapest of them all is the i7-5820K which already costs about 400 € or almost 1/4th of the total budget you said earlier of 2000$.

Regarding the GPUs, I'm sure Nvidia will win in power consumption (it will be lower), while heat and noise will come down to aftermarket coolers. AMD will probably be cheaper. We'll see who wins the performance battle.

Ah, I misread your question.

I'm looking into a i7-5820K 6-core @ 3.3GHz, the 5930K costs almost exactly twice as much here and since I'll only be running a single GPU (too much clutter with drivers and software stutter with SLi and Crossfire still) and I don't really need the 40PCIe lanes (I might get two SSD discs, one small for system and one larger for games but they should only require 4 each). The unit itself is plenty fast and can easily be clocked about 25-30% and CPU is hardly the bottleneck in games.

All the units with Haswell architecture are really expensive but they score really well and have great build quality, never been a fan of AMD's way of beefing up performance by simply adding a bunch of extra cores and they generally don't overclock that well without cooking.

I enjoy good performance and I'm willing to spend a great deal on a good rig that will last for 4 years or so, I've never actually upgraded my rigs since I buy powerful components right away and there will often be compatability issues with the hardware after one or two cycles/generations (my current motherboard would not accomodate a GTX 980 so I'd need a new one, which would require me to change the RAM as well and I also needed a new PSU etc etc).

The main thing is that PC components are terribly expensive here in Scandinavia, I'm almost insulted by how cheap everything is in the US (the UK is not so cheap though, looked into importing as well).

@mummel and JEMC --- yea you will need i7 5xxx in order to have ddr4 ram. I got the i7 5930k for my cpu and that alone was nearly as much as my 980 graphics card lol. You should check nz , thats also very expensive. 980 card cost 1k and the cpu is 900ish . Those two components alone is about 2k . That build woll make your pc really powerful . Based on my build it plays games beautifully with no problem .

@mummel ---> Sweet . 908 is a really good graphics card. Plays games beautfully and it doesn't get hot all. mine only goes just below 70 degrees celsius for intensive games. With your buld , it will las at least 6 years r even more considering dx12 is coming

I hope this is the case, I plan on grabbing a 980 this year but hopefully when it's cheaper, I'm sporting a 680 atm and soon a donated 780ti which should handle W3 at recommended which will do me fine for the time being until I grab the 980.

That said I'm upgrading to at least 8gb DDR3 but that was a friend's suggestion since I want to bump it up to 16gb for gaming, recording and editing.

yup that's true, it's better to wait for the right time, like me on the past, i bought a GTX 480 in my old PC for playing 7 gen games, while i do have PS3 because  i now it was the right time to buy before 580 GTX came, and resembless the next gen consoles interms of graphic rendering.

Yeah, May/June is likely a good time to get a new GPU! My hardware is approaching ancient now and I need to replace everything, which is why I decided to just build a new one from scratch, I'll also be getting a tower with even better cooling. 16GB of RAM might not be mandatory today but I'm thinking that it will be damn near that within 2-3 years so I'm going for it right away.

A good amount of RAM is good for recording and editing, DDR3 should be fairly cheap and even has decent clock speeds now.

yeah currently for me my setup is:

Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 
Bloomfield 45nm Technology

4.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (8-8-8-20)

ASRock X58 Extreme

2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (EVGA)

Acer S191HQL (1366x768@60Hz)

1863GB Western Digital WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 ATA Device (SATA)

it was my first odd build in early 2013 but it was originally going to be a better setup than it currently is, my ex room mate kinda screwed me out of money and my friend who originally helped me build this (he gave the improved spec to roomie which was meant for me and roomie never told me), suffice to say I kicked him out and was stuck with this build since then.

Now I'm looking forward to my new build because I'll at least be upgrading to 8gb DDR3, getting donated a brand new unopened i5 (I think it;s either 3570k or 4670k), already got a donated 680 (replaced my MSI 660ti pe) and getting a donated 780ti sometime in the enxt month or two, I'm definitely going to replace my WD green drive since it;s been nothing but a plague with gaming and general storage, everything else is backed up on my 2tb WD passport drive, including all my games on Steam which they run from currently ebcause that's how abd my WD green is.

I just hope that by at least summer if not Sept Nvidia should hopefully be making 980's cheaper since that's the card I initially want, I don't want the 970 after what went down originally and the 960 just seems pointless compared to the 980.

I feel 16gb is good enough for future proofing, especially if you decide to take on video editing and converting formats, it's always good to have at least a bit of future proffing for some parts, it;s why I want a 980 now and be good for at least 3-4 years and then maybe SLI with another by then.

Also after seeing a friend bott up his rig in 10 seconds from his SSD I feel I can never go back to using a standard HDD as my main drive.

Here's my soon to be setup (the CPU/GPU are already owned and I need to find a new outlet for the SSD): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/w8dZjX

Yeah, prices in the US are ridiculously cheap. A i7-5930K is around the 600 € mark here in Spain.

But most of the extra cost are taxes that mean better public education and healthcare, so it's not a bad trade-off. My main gripe is that prices in the USA go down faster than here.

@Chazore: If you're getting a 780Ti, I personally would wait and not get a 980. Yes, it has 1GB extra of RAM and uses less power/produces less heat, but it's not a real upgrade performance-wise but rather a side-grade. I'd wait for the 10x0 series or the 980Ti.