Please give me a list of items I need to build my dream PC

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Swiv2D

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I have budget of £2000, that I would like use to build a PC. I've done some moding in the past but am way out of my comfort zone these days. However I'd like to be able to do this and save money building one rather than overpay for one.
I'd like one with either Water cooling Display or RGB fans display with LEDs and a GTX 1080.
Can you guys please help me and give me a list of parts I would need for that PC I will research everything else in the meantime.
Thank you, I'll really appreciate it!
 
Solution
Consider this a template with the ryzen CPU /board & case as placeholders (although the whole combo is good for anything upto & including 4k) I can't argue that waiting for coffee lake results & prices is sensible.

The 8700k & a 370 series Intel board will up the below total by around £200-250.

That however still leaves a big budget for aftermarket cooling & aesthetics (rgb lighting /fans etc)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£181.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£93.96 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Elite 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory...
^ I did put the ryzen as placeholders until coffelake Intel benchmarks were in mate in all honesty though

If you have the budget the I'd probably go with a locked Intel i7 8700 (I personally don't think the k is worth the extra money at all) & a z370 series board.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£303.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£148.50 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£154.67 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£106.96 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Toshiba - 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£67.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC Black Edition Video Card (£709.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case (£83.98 @ Box Limited)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£89.63 @ BT Shop)
Total: £1665.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-16 08:20 BST+0100


I did say it would be £200 more (still havent accounted for aftermarket cooling and/or additional case fans but you need to stickdown a proper case choice first to see what would suit)