New Haswell-E PC for Lightroom/Photoshop

Hi,
I'm investing in a new desktop PC for Lightroom/Photoshop use that will hopefully last the next 3/4 years.
Here's my final build (courtesy of Chillblast).
Fractal Design Define R5 Low Noise Case - Black Pearl 
Intel Core i7 5820K Haswell-E 6-Cored 3.60GHz Processor (Overclocked up to 4.2 GHz) 
Corsair Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler 
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste 
Asus X99-S Intel X99 Motherboard 
32GB Corsair/Crucial DDR4 2133MHz Memory (4 x 8GB sticks) 
Chillblast NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics Card 
500GB Samsung 840 EVO Solid State Drive 
3000GB 7200rpm Hard Disk - 6Gbps 
3000GB 7200rpm Hard Disk - 6Gbps 
RAID 0 Configuration - Choose 2 identical hard disks above 
250GB Samsung 840 EVO Solid State Drive 
Blu-Ray ReWriter 
Corsair RM 750 Modular 750W GOLD Certified PSU 
Onboard High Definition Audio 
Akasa AK-ICR-14 17 in 1 3.5" Internal USB 3.0 Card Reader 
Windows 8.1 64 bit
All opinions gratefully received!

I prefer not to make recommendations because performance is something that simply cannot be predicted. For instance, I am using an off-the-shelf HP computer, 8 GB RAM, integrated graphics (no special graphics card), i5 processor. Performance is perfectly satisfactory for me. But you have to remember that I'm only working with 12 MP raw images. I'm working on some scanned images as well that benefit from the shake reduction filter in Photoshop CC. That filter takes quite a while to render on my machine, and I'm thinking of increasing my RAM. But other than that, Lightroom performance is very nice. So I wouldn't want to make any suggestions. It's simply the luck of the draw, I'm afraid.

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