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1tb HDD
MSI GTX 970

Also, when I say "games", in general I'm talking about games along the lines of large open world games, DayZ, GTA V, Dying Light, Simuators and etc

You should have no problem running those at high. I have the i5 6600 and the MSI GTX 750 Ti and I can run GTA 5 at Ultra.

There will be zero problems. But I highly recommend getting at least a 500GB SSD at some point, preferably Samsung. Having your games load faster is always nice. :p

Of course it would! However, you would have a 40-60 FPS if playing ULTRA on a game like GTA.

running a constant 60fps, jumps to 55-59 when flying really fast in a jet though

I plan on it Waiting on my next paycheck and I'll be getting a different OS and an SSD