1070 is roughly equivalent to a 980Ti according to my benchmarks when building my Mom's gaming rig.
I have an Asus PB278Q 1440p monitor and honestly, since I'm getting to the point where I'll need reading glasses in the next year or three, I'd have really preferred to be at 36-40" at 1440p. My friend has 4k monitors and honestly, I don't see the point unless you're at 65" or higher. Again, sharper/younger eyes might be more picky about that. As for how WoW looks, I still run my clients at 1080p so I can tile them on my 1440p desktop. 1440p WoW at full-screen(windowed) should be right lovely.
As for components, I have the H80i on my 6700K CPUs with a single Noctua NF-F12 fan (The NF-S12A is case, F12 is radiator; I do NOT use the Corsair fans that come with it due to noise issues) and the fan/pump almost never spin up out of "low" speed. The only thing I can hear is the GPU fans. Unless you're wanting to OC the CPU to like 4.6GHz, I would think the H100 might be overkill.
I have the Z170A Gaming 7 motherboards from MSI and have no complaints aside from some minor I/O issues with PCI-E M.2 RAID setups. If you're using SATA EVO SSDs, you're golden.
The Samsung 850 EVO 250GB were down to under $60US on Amazon last week.
I have a Thermaltake Core V71 and Core V31 cases and I like them. Very light and good airflow, with plenty of room for component layout and cabling. Has bays for 4x HDD, 2x ODD and 1 (or 2) SSDs backplane-mounted. Not a really super-sturdy carry-around LAN-party portable case but it works well for us as they just sit under the desk.
Shorter version of the components I regularly use in my family builds over the last 5 years and have had stellar reliability and performance with:
* GPU = EVGA
* Case = Thermaltake
* CPU Cooler = Corsair H80i for water, Noctua for air
* Memory = Corsair Vengeance (via the motherboard MFG's compatibility list)
* PSU = EVGA Gold Modular (SuperNova if available)
* Fans = Noctua
* SSDs = Samsung EVO or Pro
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