$2000 build validation

[apache1027]

I am a computer science major in college now, so I would like to be able to work on some programming when I'm not using this PC for gaming. I'm still fairly new to understanding the hardware so I would appreciate some input on the brands and specific models I have chosen. I want to use this build for 1440 gaming for now, but potentially move up to 4k when more games and monitors support it.
Specific questions:
1) I think i7 is worth the extra $100, but is the cpu cooler I picked good enough for some mild overclocking?
2) I picked the 1080 gpu instead of sli 1070 so I have the potential to have sli 1080 for 4k in the future. Good choice?
3) The mother board got very good benchmark scores for the price.
4) Any monitor suggestions? This one seemed very good for the price with g-sync.
Thanks!

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/MW8CzM

 

[James Mason]

You don't need a powerful computer to program code.
i7 isn't really necessary for gaming, i5 is within 10% of an i7 performance wise in games.
1080 is good for 1440p and sli for 4k.
motherboard is fine.
monitor hard to beat at that price and size with g-sync.

suggestion would be to skip the HDD and just get a big like 500GB SSD. 500GBs is still a lot of space, just have to manage it a little more than 1 TB, but 1TB is hard to use unless you never empty your recycle bin or delete downloaded zip files after extracting them, ect.

 

[apache1027]

You don't need a powerful computer to program code.
i7 isn't really necessary for gaming, i5 is within 10% of an i7 performance wise in games.
1080 is good for 1440p and sli for 4k.
motherboard is fine.
monitor hard to beat at that price and size with g-sync.

suggestion would be to skip the HDD and just get a big like 500GB SSD. 500GBs is still a lot of space, just have to manage it a little more than 1 TB, but 1TB is hard to use unless you never empty your recycle bin or delete downloaded zip files after extracting them, ect.

Thanks! I realize the programs im writing will not need a very powerful computer, I mainly added that info in case there was something that would make a difference for that in my build. As far as the SSD, is one 500gb better than 2 250gb if i want to dual boot linux?

 

[James Mason]

Ehh, if you want linux to have 250GBs of space, 2 hard drives is better. If you're only gonna use it for small testing, maybe it only needs a 20gb partition.