I've decided that I need to invest in a new PC, I currently have a near 5 year old laptop that is running an i3-2310m 2.1 Ghz and 8GB RAM, it copes with day to day tasks but doing some more intense activities with my Uni work and the CPU usage goes into the mid - high 90's.

I plan on buying a new PC that will be primarily for non gaming (already have a PS4), but it'll be nice to have the option to put in a GPU and immediately be able to play some games.

Here is the current spec I have come to:

	Case NZXT PHANTOM 240 WHITE GAMING CASE
	Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-6600 (3.3GHz) 6MB Cache
	Motherboard ASUS® Z170-P: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
	Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)
	Graphics Card INTEGRATED GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR (GPU)
	1st Hard Disk 250GB Samsung 850 2.5" EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
	Power Supply CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
	Processor Cooling PCS FrostFlow 100 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£24)
	Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
	Extra Case Fans 2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) (£9)
	Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
	Wireless/Wired Networking WIRELESS 802.11 AC1300 867Mbps/5GHz, 400Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD (£29)

This PC would be dual booted with Linux and Windows with Linux being the primary OS. I already have the peripherals needed.

Any advice on whether this spec would be good to doing non gaming activities for a good few years would be great. The site has the option for water cooling for the CPU and I've put in quite a big power supply so that if I add a GPU in the future it would be able to cope. Do I need the extra fans on the case?

Adding liquid cooling would add about £40 to the price, currently it's at £659 and I wouldn't want to spend anymore than £700. I don't really know anything about motherboards either, I picked the first option and the website hasn't said anything would be incompatible even when adding a GTX 1080 just for testing.

Thanks in advance!!

Skip out on the liquid cooling. It's just not worth the trouble to take into account another variable for system failure cases ...

This PC is more than good enough for daily non-intensive scenarios ...

OK thanks :)

I assume that I can cut back on the extra fans too? I only worry about heat because my laptop is constantly firing up and put out a lot of heat. But it's using much older tech.

You really don't need many fans aside from the CPU fan but you do get better airflow for all components in the case ... 

No need to worry about your desktop heating up like a laptop would since there's tons of space for the former to do heat transfer along with the CPU heatsink ...

Everything on here is very good, more than enough. It's just the lack of GPU that is going to completely cripple you gaming wise. That PC with the right GPU would run anything, GPU will always be the bottleneck on that system for gaming wise for quite a while.

But for everyday tasks as you say it will be perfect, especially that SSD, SSD's are a god send for productivity and speed. All you'd have to do is shove in a GPU later on and you'd have a gaming/video editing beast.

As Fatslob said the case fans aren't really necessary, skip the liquid cooling too. And the PSU is more than enough for any single-gpu setup should you put in a GPU at a later date.

The 250gb SSD may become a problem, considering you're dualbooting two OSS's presumably both installed on it. If you do want to start gaming on it you'll have to get more storage and a gpu. 250gb should be enough for working assuming you won't need to store a lot of video.

You could also scale back on the RAM, the size is fine but 2133 should be more than enough speed if it's not for gaming first and foremost (my rig actually has 16GB of 2133MHz DDR4 RAM and it works perfectly along with a monster GPU and CPU as well). It could save you a little money!
Like fatslob already mentioned as well; skip the cooling, I did as well and the CPU delivers in spectacular fashion anyway (I have extra air cooling though, but skipped water cooling).

Thanks for the advice both of you :). I've taken out the extra case fans, there are already standard ones put in, stuck with a standard fan for the CPU too.

It's very reassuring to hear you say that all I'd need to do is stick a GPU in and then I'm good to go, if I do end up putting a GPU in it'll probably be a mid-tier GPU and probably second hand.

The mainboard is absolute overkill for the CPU. Get an H110 or B150. The one you picked is overpriced and useless for your setup.

Z170 are only for people with an OC CPU which you don't have.

Annoyingly the configurator on https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ doesn't let me pick a cheaper motherboard with the rest of the spec. 

I can choose a different category of desktop pc's and that'll have a more modest board but then you can't do things like have DDR4 RAM

DDR4 is useless too.