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Go for it, your plan sounds good. No need to wait for GTX 1080 reviews since we already know it's a beast and is the best you can get for money in the coming 6 months. Start building your system now with the help of your friend who goes abroad! Actually I would ask him to buy another one or two parts, so you really feel the comp is coming together, it'll give you a more positive feel. Ask him to get a mother board and an SSD too. No problem to put those in a traveling bag.

Then you'll have 4 components, and it'll be easier to just buy the rest in your home country (or order on the internet?).

I would choose the Intel Core i7-6700K over a more expensive Intel CPU since that extra CPU power won't help you anything, especially at high resolutions. GPU is such a bottleneck. Mummelmann might disagree though.

SSD for installing games is a great idea! Mine is only 250GB but I still have room for 5-6 big games on it, I sometimes delete one to make room for another game I want to perform really well, while my main library is on a HDD. I was very sceptical before I bought one, but I think SSDs are really worth it (I should have gotten 500GB), the loading times are so fast.